Steering Committee Meeting Sunflower Project Statewide Financial Management System Update

1. Steering Committee MeetingSunflower ProjectStatewide Financial Management System Update February 13, 2009

2. Today’s Topics • Project status and activities – Kent • IV&V report - Peggy • Change control and pending decisions – Peggy • Agency visits and interactions – Gary • SMART branding – Kent

3. The Next Six Months of the Project “Go-live” only 1 Year Away! January February March April May June July Begin Build Phase End Design Phase End Design Phase Begin Design Phase 1st Set of Environments Available Agencies Begin Working on Interfaces and Systems Change Agent Launch Interface Standards Complete and Published to Agencies

4. Project Status and Activities • Building out phase 2 of the Project Plan which includes activities for Build, Test and Deploy phases • All major milestones are on-schedule or ahead of schedule: • Interface standards • Configuration design • Training plan under development • Over 50 reports identified for development • Personal Learning Plans being developed for State project team members

5. Project Status and Activities • Developed and presented options for the Post Go-live support organization • Wrapping up review of Analyze phase deliverables • Drafting Deliverables Expectations Documents for Design phase deliverables • Developing data warehouse and reporting approach • Developing roles and associated training curriculums

6. Project Status and Activities • Boundaries have been established by the Project Leadership to address system access for state educational institutions at “go-live” • State educational institutions will: • Interface vouchers and receipt revenue into SMART similar to current interfaces with STARS and SOKI • Access SMART directly to perform business processes currently performed in STARS and SOKI; this will be a limited number of end users • View and retrieve agency data entered into SMART after attending appropriate training and with proper authorization • Not be required to load any assets into SMART

7. Findings from Independent Validation & Verification Review • Positives: • Well-staffed and capable project team • Well-organized • Effectively completed Analyze phase • Negatives: • Large scope in terms of number of software modules and number of agencies – recommends contingency planning • No Accenture QA Lead • Agency Liaison team is potentially understaffed

8. Change Control • Formal Change Control Board meetings each week • Change orders approved since last Steering Committee meeting: • Labor distribution • Modifications and interfaces to support the new Set-off system (time and materials) • Change orders anticipated for next Steering Committee meeting: • 1st round of software mods and enhancements • Reduction in scope of FARMS and Central Cashier due to the ability of the delivered software to meet the business requirements • Reduction in the scope of Purchasing modules

9. Scope Decisions – Set-off Alternatives Analysis: * SI’s quote for an Interfacing Solution is $549,576; managed as a Time and Materials (T&M) mod expected costs are significantly less based on SOK SME analysis. Recommendation: Replace Set-Off System outside of PeopleSoft using 3rd party and have SI interface into FMS using a time and materials arrangement 9

10. Pending Project Decisions • Analysis of centralized vs. de-centralized security – survey sent to agencies – decision will be made by next month • Finalize chart of accounts – mapping exercise sent to agencies • Method for Interfund processing – G/L versus using A/P and A/R • Method for end-of-year encumbering

11. Pending Project Decisions • Replace Warrant Tracking System – operated and maintained by the State Treasurer Office (STO) • System is obsolete and needs to be replaced • Three options considered: • STO re-build warrant tracking system • Perform warrant tracking in SMART (requires mods) • Outsource warrant tracking to UMB • Considering replacing most agency satellite warrant writing systems

12. Change Agent Network Launch • Approximately180 attendees • ALL agencies represented • Audience included Agency Primary Contact, Technical Contact, Training Contact • Reviewed the agency task list (100+ tasks)

13. Change Agent Network Launch • Feedback: • The Event Met My Expectations: • 17.4% very satisfied • 63.0% satisfied • 16.3% neutral • 3.3% unsatisfied • Sample of comments: • “When will someone talk to our agency about our needs specifically? You'd think that would be important in designing a new system to interview the 2nd branch of government.” • “Information on the vendor file. For example, will it be centralized? Will it be shared with agencies who interface with the SMART system? Information on the new chart of accounts and the interface specifications.” • “Sometimes people within agencies are not the best in communicating, and maybe I'm getting ahead of the ballgame, but still really unclear what is going to be stored in the Data Warehouse, other than Accounts Payable data. Maybe when we start talking interfaces, it will start to clear-up..” • “I didn't get a clear picture of agency reporting capabilities. Addressing future ad hoc and standard report capabilities may reduce some of the change fears.” } 80%

14. Agency Visits and Interactions • Meetings held to finalize scope: • DOL • HCSF • Corrections • KDHE • Aging • State Historical Society • Numerous small agencies @ ASTRA • Upcoming meetings: • Wildlife and Parks • Legislative • DISC • DFM • SOS • Many, many more

15. SMART Branding

16. Questions and Answers For additional information on the project, please see the project website: http://www.da.ks.gov/ar/fms/ ?

17. Authority for Change Requests