CASII Stakeholder Report Complete
August 12, 2008 - In February 2007, the Roadmap Project published the Roadmap Core Financial Systems Feasibility Study. The study recommends twelve “positioning activities” to help reduce risk and increase the usefulness of whatever future financial and administrative solution/approach the state may select. The Central Accounting System Interface Inventory (CASII) project is one of these “positioning activities.” The CASII project team presented the final stakeholder report to both the Roadmap Director and Executive Sponsors in late July. The final report yielded valuable information relating to the extent and importance of agency interfaces to statewide financial systems.
The project team was tasked with creating a more detailed understanding of all the interfaces into, and out of, the central financial and administrative systems (i.e., Agency Financial Reporting System, Agency Data Distribution System, Disbursement Reporting System, Time Management System, and Enterprise Reporting). To accomplish this, the CASII project team interviewed 119 agencies. Information from the interviews was used to produce statistical data on topics such as the number of agency interfaces to statewide financial systems, agency-unique accounting systems, frequency and volume of interface transmissions, type of users supported and interface complexity.
Report findings are important because they will help OFM provide better inventory management and greater capacity to determine the impact of changes on agencies, and prove useful in getting to a decision on the recommended approach and sequence for completing and modernizing WA State’s core financial systems.
Click here to view detailed results of the report.