Project Brief

The ALBACS product from Bottomline is used by Finance to issue BACS payments in order to pay staff salaries, suppliers and other external bank payments.

ALBACS reaches end-of-life in July 2015 and is being replaced with C-Series.  The need to replace this product was identified last year and was hoped to be done as part of the small enhancements project (FIN099) but as more information has been made available, it has become clear that this piece of work is much larger than originally anticipated and requires its own project to manage it.

Bottomline has confirmed it will continue to support our usage of ALBACS slightly further than July, provided we are making progress with migrating to C-Series.

One of the additional benefits of moving to the upgraded product is that international payments will be possible.  These are currently handled manually.

This is a technical project with the majority of the resources required from Development Technology to work alongside the Bottomline technical team.  A detailed estimate has been produced and resource managers consulted to check that appropriate resourcing can be made available within the timescales

Bottomline have provided a quote for their side of the work.  The Project Sponsor, Liz Welch, has confirmed that she is directly funding this external expenditure and has raised a purchase order for Bottomline.