Explanation
BACKGROUND:
This ordinance amends the 2021 Capital budget and authorizes the expenditure of $980,500 from the Auditor Bond fund for the technical and development work to the Auditor’s financial system and Azure platform assets. This legislation authorizes the City Auditor to enter into contract with OnActuate Consulting for professional services and modify existing contracts with Microsoft Corporation and Dell Marketing LP to expand its Azure platform licensing, storage, and related services to accommodate expanded functionality and declares an emergency.
The City Auditor’s Office has successfully migrated its financial system to Dynamics 365 Finance and Operations system (D365) and has been operational on the upgraded product since January of 2021. Part of the upgrade included code migration and customized extensions for continuing service operations. The project also included implementing Microsoft Point of Sale module included with D365 to replace a separate third party application to provide a seamless experience to end users and to reduce system complexity, maintenance, and licensing costs for the City as Point of Sale is included in D365 licensing.
Since going live in D365, the City has continued to receive regular release upgrades, quality updates, and more features base lined into the public sector industry version. When features are introduced in the regular industry product where the City may have custom extensions already built, adjustments are needed to replace the City’s custom code with extensions that recognize these new baseline features to avoid software conflicts in current and future releases. Additional infrastructure capabilities are now available to link integrations between D365 and apps more tightly. One of many improvements is dual-write capabilities to write changes in D365 to a dataverse to provide automated dataflow for an integrated user experience across applications such as the City’s Public and Vendor portal, used for ...
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