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Orange County Information Technologies Strategic Plan 23 FINANCIAL ACCOUNTING AND REPORTING MUNIS System Update The Munis system has been successfully implemented within the Finance, Budgeting, Payroll and Purchasing processes. The implementation into the Personnel department continues, with future enhancements underway to address functional gaps. Munis also has proven to be easily integrated into other processes. For example, financial transactions from various departmental applications can be fed into Munis for fully automated financial processing. We are currently using a 5 year old server for Munis that is running the Informix database system. That server and database are in need of upgrading in order for the County to be able to implement the newer versions of Munis and take advantage of important new functionalities. Information Technologies must upgrade the Munis environment to SQL and install it on a newer faster server. Property Information Management System The County has relied on an internally developed software system for tracking and managing land records, property valuation and payment data for 29 years. This system has been modified and enhanced over the years to meet the County's needs and has played an important role in ensuring the Assessor's office maintains accurate valuations while helping the Revenue office maintain a high collection rate. The legacy system, however, has been developed on what has become, over time, a fundamentally antiquated computing platform. The underlying architecture makes it difficult to integrate with more modern software, an increasingly important requirement as the County moves toward enterprise systems for greater efficiencies. Further, the expertise for maintaining the legacy system is increasingly difficult to find and develop. Page 22 of 25 2/9/2009