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Legislative IT committee opens study of state and higher-education ERP systems
Summary
Lawmakers and agency staff told the Information Technology Committee they will study whether to keep, upgrade or replace the state and university enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, focusing on costs, cloud readiness and whether a single shared system remains practical.
Legislators and state IT officials said at an Information Technology Committee meeting that a study this interim will examine options for the state’s enterprise resource planning system and related costs, timelines and governance. The committee heard that the current Oracle/PeopleSoft system (often called ConnectND on the higher-education side) remains in use but faces choices about migration, hosting and long-term support. "Probably one of the biggest decisions that will be made next interim is what we decide to do as far as our ERP system," said Chairman Dale Bosch. The committee’s background materials note Senate Bill 2021 directed reporting to the panel on the enterprise resource planning study. Why it matters: the ERP supports payroll, accounting, human resources and—on the university side—student records; replacing or rehosting it…
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