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6.0 OCIO Impact Matrix
USDA has also acted upon an opportunity to eliminate
more than $30 million of costs associ ated with timekeeping
services while updating and modernizing existing time and
attendance systems. The National Finance Center (NFC)
is in the process of working with the Office of Human
Capital Management (OHCM) to orchestrate the rollout
of a commercial time and attendance system which
will allow USDA to eliminate significant costs associated
with timekeeping and accounting error correction. The
application, WebTA, also automates timekeeping and labor
management processes, improves data accuracy, reduces the
number of costly payroll errors, and satisfies a variety of
federally-mandated compliance requirements. USDA will
eliminate paper waste from manual time and attendance
processes, reduce storage space from emailing timecards as
attachments, and reduce IT equipment from consolidating.
te c h n o l o g y: em p o W hr.
me a s u re: re d u c t i o n in it equipment f r o m
s t a n d a rd i z e d a p p l i c a t i o n.
me a s u re: re d u c t i o n o f paperWork by re d u c i n g
paper-based systems.
te c h n o l o g y: Webta.
me a s u re: re d u c t i o n in it equipment f r o m
s t a n d a rd i z e d a p p l i c a t i o n.
me a s u re: re d u c t i o n in paper Waste f r o m m a n u a l
t&a processes.
Financial Management Modernization Initiative (FMMI)
USDA launched the FMMI after identifying the need to
up grade aging Departmental and Agency financial and
administra tive payment and program general ledger systems.
USDA performed a full evaluation and selection of a core
financial system to replace USDA’s nine general ledger
systems (which have not been supported by their vendors
for three years), each of which independently requires
equipment storage and data center space. The software
integration services contract was awarded to an integrator
to implement Systems, Applications, and Products in Data
Pro cessing (SAP) Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
2005. SAP ERP 2005 is an advanced, Web-based, financialmanagement
system that provides general accounting, funds
management, and financial-reporting capabilities. FMMI
Supporting Environmentally Responsible Technology at USDA
will give USDA a modern, core financial-management
system that will enable USDA to address challenges and
opportunities in the rapidly changing financial management
and technology environment. USDA OCIO has found
that by consolidating nine general ledger systems down to
one, servers from the old systems can be consolidated or
decommissioned.
te c h n o l o g y: sap erp 2005.
me a s u re: re d u c t i o n in it equipment (servers a n d
related i n f r a s t r u c t u re).
me a s u re: re d u c t i o n in f l o o r s p a c e used a t d a t a
center.
6.2.7 Department-Wide Business Processes through
Electronic Support
Farm Service Agency Modernization
USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) hosts and supports the
delivery of the programs to assure the Nation of a stable
food supply. When the automated system for program
delivery was developed, cellular telephone, Voice over
Internet Protocol, telephony, and the public Internet were
non-existent.
FSA is currently pursuing significant modernization of
aging legacy system in order to address the challenges
and opportunities in the rapidly changing technology
environment. This project is known as Modernize and
Innovate the Delivery of Agriculture System (MIDAS).
The MIDAS project initiatives includes the acquisition
of a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software product
that will be configurable to meet the legislated mandates
necessary to deliver farm program benefits and services to
our customers.
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