Tyler Technologies, Inc. (NYSE: TYL) has signed an agreement with
Missouri City, Texas, to deliver its Munis®enterprise
resource planning (ERP) and Incode®municipal
court solutions under a software as a service (SaaS) agreement that
enables the city to access current technology for a low upfront
investment.
Missouri City has a population of approximately 64,000 and is southwest
of Houston. During their search for new financial and court systems,
city officials discovered that they could source both systems through
Tyler rather than buying disparate applications from different vendors.
The integrated solution was even more attractive to the city because the
well-established Munis
and Incode
applications could be delivered as SaaS and hosted in Tyler's private
cloud - data centers maintained by Tyler exclusively for Tyler clients.
The SaaS model enables Missouri City to avoid the overhead of investing
capital in hardware such as servers, while also shifting the expense and
responsibility of securing data, updating servers and managing the
applications to Tyler instead of the city's IT staff.
Missouri City's agreement with Tyler also includes disaster recovery,
which creates another layer of protection for the city's data. And,
because Tyler's applications are browser-based, city officials can
access Munis and Incode from any location that has an Internet
connection.
The seven-year SaaS agreement, which includes licensing, related
professional services and maintenance fees, is valued at approximately
$1.8 million. As part of the agreement, Missouri City will use Tyler's
Web Services designed to help the city establish an online presence for
easier staff and citizen access.
"By relying on Tyler's private cloud to deliver and maintain Munis and
Incode, Missouri City not only gets a very predictable cost model for
budgeting purposes, but they have the flexibility to shift internal IT
staff to other mission-critical projects," said Richard E. Peterson Jr.,
president of Tyler's ERP & School Division. "By partnering with Tyler
and leveraging the SaaS model, Missouri City has made a value-creating
decision for the government and the citizens it serves."
About Tyler Technologies, Inc.
Tyler Technologies (NYSE: TYL) is a leading provider of end-to-end
information management solutions and services for local governments.
Tyler partners with clients to empower the public sector - cities,
counties, schools and other government entities - to become more
efficient, more accessible and more responsive to the needs of citizens.
Tyler's client base includes more than 10,000 local government offices
in all 50 states, Canada, the Caribbean and the United Kingdom. Forbes
has named Tyler one of "America's Best Small Companies" four times in
the last five years. More information about Dallas-based Tyler
Technologies can be found at www.tylertech.com.
Jetstream PR for Tyler Technologies
Tony Katsulos, 972-788-9456,
ext. 301
katsulos@jetstreampr.com