The Council’s current income management system (AIM) enables the Council to effectively manage, process and record its various income streams and links to all the other financial systems operated internally. The system has been in use since at least 2009 and the Council has a one-year rolling contract for the system at present, which is currently hosted within the Council’s own cloud within the Azure Cloud Platform. The service provider has informed the Council that it will cease support of the AIM system in its current set up at the end of June 2024 and will only continue to support the system if it is moved to their own Cloud based Platform (sCloud).