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Higher-education IT leaders ask appropriations panel for $10M to prepare ERP systems for cloud transition
Summary
State higher-education IT leaders told the Appropriations — Education and Environment Division that North Dakota’s 22-plus-year PeopleSoft ERP needs preparatory work to move to a cloud-delivered system; the campuses requested $10 million for cloud-readiness to document and clean up customizations before a formal procurement.
Corey Quirk, deputy chief information officer for the state's information-technology organization that supports higher education, told the Appropriations — Education and Environment Division that the North Dakota University System's enterprise resource planning (ERP) software is aging and heavily customized and that preparatory work is needed now to move toward a cloud-delivered replacement.
Quirk said the system (PeopleSoft) has been in production for more than 22 years and now contains more than 7,000 customizations added to meet campus needs, which increases the complexity of upgrades, security patching and eventual migration. "It's not even an off the shelf product anymore," Quirk said. He described a three-phase review that included a market analysis, outreach to…
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