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Project Details

The 80th Texas Legislature passed HB 3106, which charged the Comptroller’s office with establishing clear standards for implementing ERP in Texas. The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT), the Department of Information Resources (DIR) and the Health and Human Services Commission (HHSC) were each appropriated funds to implement an ERP project during the 2010-2011 biennium.

Using Oracle’s PeopleSoft 9.1 suite as a base, the ProjectONE team created the Centralized Accounting and Payroll/Personnel System (CAPPS) to serve as the state’s ERP system.

The original project scope called for TxDOT and DIR to implement the full suite of Financials and HR/Payroll modules. ProjectONE was to upgrade and enhance HHSC’s current PeopleSoft HR/ Payroll system, which would be used as a baseline for the new HR/Payroll component of CAPPS.

However, as part of the established management review process, it was determined that the existing HHS HR/Payroll system did not have the depth of coding documentation necessary to continue within the original project timeline. At that point, HHSC assumed responsibility for upgrading the base HR/Payroll system to PeopleSoft 9.1.

To complete all the changes necessary for the Financials component to meet TxDOT’s needs, it was also determined that an additional 37,000 hours of software development is required. To date, approval and funding for the development effort have not been granted. Without this additional funding, the CAPPS Financials component cannot be implemented for TxDOT.

The CAPPS Financials component for DIR and the Central Texas Turnpike System (an enterprise fund of TxDOT) went live on Sept. 1, 2011.The upgraded HHSAS HR/Payroll system is scheduled for a summer 2012 implementation at HHSC.