The California Fi$Cal system has been live and onboarding departments over the last five years. The department also released Special Report 7 to update the project's status and to detail which departments are rolling out.
Eighty-eight departments are already using the accounting system, and every state entity is engaging with vendors for procurement through the system.
The report outlines how every requirement has been met through deployment, and it highlights which functions have been in a steady state of use for the last four years.
“This is our last release. It brings on 64 more departments. That closes out our initial list of departments we wanted to go live with,” Chief Deputy Director Neeraj Chauhan told Techwire. “We’ve had four releases already.”
This last round included some of the judicial branch, even the Judicial Council, which had not been originally slated for the initial round of rollouts.
“The Judicial Council was not part of our original scope, but they reached out to us. They have an accounting system which is aging, so they did the typical analysis of, 'Do I spend more money upgrading?'” Chauhan said. “They’re part of the official release for 2018."
The council oversees procurement for the state’s Superior Courts and offers guidance to appellate courts.
While the council is validating for the new accounting system, it has been using the statewide Cal eProcure site for several years. Before Cal eProcure, the council used an Oracle e-business suite financial management system that was configured for its needs.
In 2016-17, the council spent $7,974,000 on information systems and data services.
“Judicial Council is following the same onboarding process that all our 2018 departments are," Will Padilla, chief of the Change Management Office, told Techwire. "It’s a little bit different than this release.”
The departments submitted configuration data, took part in validation and user testing in the fall, and will repeat a similar process in the spring.
“The system, we know, works, so it’s more a matter of departments validating their data and processes in preparation for go-live,” Padilla said.
