The California Highway Patrol is working to find a new home for a group of two decade-old applications lingering on a legacy system in the California Department of Technology’s data center.
CHP and the department expect to approve and request funds to buy a replacement for the Integrated Database Management System by fiscal year 2017-18, according to a budget filing. The planning is currently in the second stage – the alternatives analysis -- of the Department of Technology’s four-stage project approval process.
The legacy applications housed on the Integrated Database Management System include a timekeeping and attendance system; a database of commercial vehicle highway incidents; a maintenance and inventory system for the CHP’s airplanes and helicopters, and the Management Information System, a “large-scale message=passing system.” Others applications that have been on the system include the Vehicle Theft Information System and CHP collision reports.
Several departments within state government used to put applications on the Integrated Database Management System, but customers have steadily dropped off in favor of newer solutions. The past two years CHP has sought one-time funding to maintain the integrated database, and is doing so again for 2016-17. CHP has sought $894,000 annually during 2015-16 and 2016-17.
As of spring 2015, CHP was believed to be one of the last entities using the Integrated Database Management System, along with the State Controller’s Office.
