According to the city’s Proposed Capital Improvement Plan, nearly 90 percent of the projected IT spending, $270 million, will be focused on modernizing the George Bush Intercontinental Airport’s Automated People Mover (APM) System.
Although the project’s funding allocation is listed as construction, the scope of the system’s modernization includes upgrading its electronic control center’s software and hardware, which have reached end of life.
The next largest project is a $13 million implementation of the SAP S/4HANA enterprise resource planning system, followed by a $10 million computer-aided dispatch replacement.
The city has plans to migrate at least two systems to the cloud: $1.5 million has been allocated to migrate its eGIS infrastructure and $2.6 million is budgeted for its disaster recovery servers.
Other IT capital items include:
- $3 million upgrade of the city’s surveillance and monitoring infrastructure
- $2.3 million for the replacement of criminal justice information services compliance infrastructure
- $2 million for a citywide PC replacement
- $1.1 million for a citywide phone system upgrade
- $1.1 million for an enterprise customer relationship management system
