Wayne County approves Oracle managed‑services agreement as Connect 43 rollout continues
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Summary
The Wayne County Committee on Government Operations approved a cooperative agreement with Oracle to provide application management services for Oracle Fusion as county staff reported progress on the Connect 43 implementation and ongoing work to post Oracle payroll data into JD Edwards.
The Wayne County Committee on Government Operations voted to approve a cooperative agreement with Oracle America to provide application management services for the county’s Oracle Fusion implementation, officials said during the meeting.
County IT and project staff told the committee they are progressing through Connect 43 phases. Mike Jamieson, Connect 43 project director, said the county has gone live with Oracle HCM phase 2 learning and the health-and-safety modules and has ended “hyper care” support for learning while health-and-safety remains in hyper care. Jamieson said the talent module is in implementation and the county is planning an early-October go‑live for ERP alongside EPM and Talent.
Why it matters: the agreement will move production support for newly deployed Oracle modules to the vendor-managed services contract once hyper care ends, which county staff said will help stabilize operations as the project completes testing and additional integrations.
Officials said ERP testing began under a replan amendment approved earlier in the year; Jamieson described a nine-week testing cycle with one week for remediation. He also said the county validated a data flow from Oracle HCM into the analytics/data warehouse (ADW) with consecutive successful loads over seven days and that one outstanding item was a runbook for IT to operate ADW after the implementation team transitions out.
Commissioners pressed staff on payroll reporting and the transition between JD Edwards (JDE) and Oracle. Erica Boss, division director for enterprise applications, explained that Oracle is the system of record for payroll but payroll data is posted into JDE through an integration so JDE remains the county’s general ledger and system of record until ERP goes live. Boss said the county continues posting Oracle payroll into JDE but there had been a delay in getting certain months posted due to resource constraints and competing priorities. Jamieson said staff expect to have payroll postings fully caught up, including May payrolls, by the end of the current month.
Commissioner Killeen questioned the planned October go‑live cadence and asked for clarification about overlapping support for legacy systems; Jamieson and Boss confirmed ERB go‑live is targeted for October and that some JD Edwards support will continue until the legacy contracts end.
The commission approved both the May Connect 43 steering committee monthly report (receive and file) and the Oracle cooperative agreement in a single motion. No roll-call vote tally was recorded in the transcript; the clerk announced “Motion carried.”
Staff said they will return with further updates next month as testing progresses and as outstanding runbook and integration tasks are completed.
