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BFM seeks more staff and readies Project Bison ERP with July 1, 2026 go‑live
Summary
The Bureau of Finance and Management told the Joint Appropriations Committee it is moving to replace the state's 36‑year-old financial systems with Oracle Cloud (Project Bison), seeking several additional technical and internal‑control FTEs to support implementation and ongoing controls work.
The Bureau of Finance and Management briefed the Joint Appropriations Committee on its proposed budget, a multiyear enterprise resource planning rollout (Project Bison) and a push to strengthen statewide internal controls.
Project Bison and timeline: Commissioner Jim Twiliger told lawmakers the state awarded contracts for an Oracle Cloud ERP implementation and a system integrator (Sierra Cedar) and that the program's planned go‑live date is July 1, 2026. Colin Keeler, BFM's financial systems director, said the project is subscription‑based "software as a service" and described it as Oracle Cloud Fusion: "It is their most modern ERP system, on the market. It is software as a service based so it's a subscription based thing that we pay a yearly fee for," Keeler said. Keeler said the…
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