The Agricultural Property Agency is a legal succes- sor of The Agricultural Property Agency of the State Treasury. It has been entrusted by the State Treasury with exercising ownership rights and other property rights concerning state-owned property for its benefit in agriculture.
The Agency exercises, on its own behalf, rights and obligations related to the State Treasury property which it was entrusted with after liquidation of stateowned agricultural enterprises, including rights and obligations resulting from administrative decisions. The Agricultural Property Agency performs its tasks resulting from state policies concerning, in particular, creating and improving acreage structure of family farms and creating favorable conditions to use the production potential of the Reserve of Agricultural Property of the State Treasury rationally.
Important responsibilities of the Agency also include reorganization and privatization of the State Treasury property used for agricultural purposes. The Agency undertakes initiatives concerning equipment and agricultural works in the lands of the State Treasury and supports setting up private farms in these lands as well.
At the end of the 1990s., the Agency had fragmentary IT solutions, which allows for only some tasks automation. The aim of the decision to replace them with the Integrated IT System was to expand functions of IT solutions supporting operation of the Agency and to integrate them.
Oracle Forms, a technology of creating software which was popular at the time, was adapted to construct the Integrated IT System for the Agricultural Property Agency. The Integrated IT System was created using dispersed architecture (a separate data base in each local division) and the Oracle system of data base management. Users work with an application which operates by use of a fat client.
In each division, basic modules were implemented of an ERP class system, i.e. financing and accounting system, HR and remuneration system, and system of tangible assets management. The created modules were integrated within a division and, for selected functions, within the whole organisation. Furthermore, Asseco Poland S.A. constructed dedicated systems for registering lands and for comprehensive service related to agreements concluded within the scope of managing the Reserve of Agricultural Property of the State Treasury.
Main functionalities of the Integrated IT System include supporting HR, remuneration, and tangible assets; purchasing, leasing, and selling lands; handling application forms, and financial and accounting services.
Client’s benefits
Implementation of the Integrated IT System in the Agricultural Property Agency has facilitated completion of tasks performed by the Agency. Lease or sale of properties and property registry procedures have been simplified. The introduced, reporting system, uniform for the whole agency, has enabled meeting norms specified by law and internal regulations. Owing to the construction of the system, the Agricultural Property Agency is able to provide management information concerning the Reserve of Agricultural Property of the State Treasury to decision-makers very quickly. The Integrated IT System is used constantly and is updated as a result of changes introduced to law.
