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MMB outlines ERP upgrades, cloud migration and budget recommendations to committee
Summary
MMB deputies updated lawmakers on stabilization and modernization of enterprise resource planning systems, a planned cloud migration, new internal audit and banking units, and budget recommendations including staffing additions and proposed reappropriation of DCYF transition funds.
Deputy Commissioners told the State Government Finance and Policy Committee on March 4 that funding from the 2023 state government omnibus bill has stabilized Minnesota's enterprise resource planning systems and funded several new functions at Minnesota Management and Budget.
Britta Rayton, deputy commissioner at MMB, said the 2023 omnibus appropriations provided sustainable funding in 2024–25 to stabilize enterprise systems that had previously been maintained on a cadence of "scraping by." Rayton said the appropriation was front-loaded in 2024–25 with the expectation that those funds would be spent over a four-year period. The agency has prioritized deferred maintenance and is "nearing completion" of bringing systems into supported status; a phased upgrade to the state's data warehouse is expected to finish in the next few months, she said.
Rayton said MMB is migrating on-site data centers and hardware to cloud hosting, with a target to…
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