Radius, leading supplier of financial applications software to Local Authorities, has now been selected by 3 of the leading 5 suppliers of revenues & benefits solutions to supply income management and e-payments systems alongside their applications.

In most Local Authorities (other than Counties), typically it is the revenues & benefits applications that have the most demanding interaction with citizens and business, including Council Tax, NNDR and Housing Benefits. Of the five leading suppliers of solutions to meet those requirements, Radius now has partnership agreements with three - Sx3, Northgate and IBS. RadiusICON works seamlessly alongside these suppliers to provide closely integrated solutions encompassing multi-channel e-payments, cash receipting, income management and distribution.

Income management incorporating e-payments is now becoming recognised as a core system. Once implemented to handle the high throughput in the revenues and benefits area it can be rolled out throughout all the authority. The adoption of open interoperability means that customers are no longer tied down to traditional cash receipting offerings, but can buy best-in-class income management/e-payments systems, secure in the knowledge that they will easily work with systems installed across the authority, both now and in the future.

Nick Fowler, Sales Director at Sx3, noted: “This partnership brings together the two different offerings from the two companies to provide Sx3’s customers with the best e-payments technology currently available in the marketplace. iWorld customers will now be able to use both Internet and Automated Telephone Payments channels to accept payments of their bills, with the future option to add further delivery channels such as Digital TV and new generation mobile phones as they become available.”

Dave Meaden, Managing Director of Northgate’s Public Sector Division commented: “We only entered into our partnership with Radius following a review of competing products at their installed sites, and a technical review of Radius’ own ISO9001:2001 quality processes. Radius’ reference sites proved that the products actually delivered on the functionality and benefits promised, and the technical review satisfied our own technical staff to the extent that we are now beginning to work with Radius on a number of our award winning Front Office sites.”

Bill Loughry, Sales Director of IBS said: “Whilst we have our own cash handling facilities, we call on Radius when a full-functionality income management solution is required, and in particular when e-payments is required across multiple channels. The IBS OPENAccess module is the 'central hub' for communication between the citizen and the Local Authority, which is now enhanced with integration to the RadiusICON solution. We have been impressed both by the ICON product's functionality and by Radius flexibility in meeting the customers functional and commercial needs."

A number of users of the other two leading suppliers of revenues and benefits systems have selected RadiusICON instead of the in-house offering on the basis of ICON’s open interface to suppliers’ systems. This gives these customers the flexibility to change their revenues and benefits systems in the future without the need to change their core income management, e-payment and/or cash receipting system.

For further information contact:

Marketing Department
Radius Computer Services Ltd.
Tel: 020 8844 2141
e-mail: marketing@radiusplc.co.uk