The budget notes that the county has added $20 million to a reserve fund for IT capital planning but acknowledged more funding will be needed to replace legacy technology systems. In Los Angeles County, technology policy is managed by the CIO's office, while the Internal Services Department manages enterprise IT. Individual county departments also steward their own tech projects.
According to the document, the Internal Services Department will continue to work toward acquiring leased data center space, which will become the county’s Enterprise Data Center, replacing the current Downey Data Center. The Board of Supervisors approved the move in 2014. The department also plans to expand offerings in Office 365 and develop a business strategy to replace legacy applications.
The Internal Services Department said it finished email consolidation in 2015-16, moving 95,000 users to cloud-based office 365. The department also expanded its private cloud hosting solution from 2,060 servers to 2,311 and implemented user self-service server deployment, "which brought the average server deployment time to less than 25 minutes."
The Internal Services Department has a $106.5 million gross appropriation for data center management, and $48.4 million for programming services. Spending in these programs is offset by intrafund transfers, generated revenue and other sources.
County departments also have numerous IT projects planned for 2016-17. Highlights include:
- Develop and replace the Alternate Public Defender's Legacy Case Management System with a new system capable of sharing mission-critical information with its justice partners.
- Work with the Auditor-Controller, Assessor and Treasurer and Tax Collector to explore options for development of an integrated, enterprise Property Tax System to replace aging, obsolete and inefficient legacy applications; $1.5 million will go toward the Assessor’s Legacy System Replacement Project
- Migrate the Registrar-Recorder and County Clerk's legacy system infrastructure to e-Block, a cloud solution.
- A $8.1 million budget is included for countywide e-services and strategic technology projects.
- Another $45.1 million is committed for various IT legacy replacement projects not contained in the departmental or nondepartmental budgets.
