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Vermont officials defend single go-live for statewide Workday ERP, warn project funding may be at risk
Summary
State fiscal and IT officials told a joint House-Senate hearing that shifting to a single, unified go-live for the state's Workday ERP aims to reduce user disruption and improve testing, but they warned the project may need additional funds this year after a sweep of IT mod fund interest.
Rep. Kathleen James convened a joint hearing where state fiscal staff and the Joint Fiscal Office reviewed the status of Vermont's multi-year enterprise resource planning (ERP) project, saying the administration has shifted to a single go-live approach and that more legislative attention to funding will be needed.
"My name is Lisa Gob, and I'm the JFO IT consultant," the consultant told legislators as she opened the technical review. Gob said the project replaces five legacy systems with a Workday ERP and noted that the Adaptive Planning budget module went live last fall.
Gob summarized three persistent concerns she raised in the JFO review: "the risk of functional gaps between Workday and the business needs," unclear project definition when contracting began, and the degree to which the Guidehouse implementation contract is tightly scoped so that changes after acceptance can trigger substantial additional costs. She said a separate business-process vendor (Attain) was later contracted to document requirements and that the two contracts must…
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