Core-CT Overview

In February 2000, Governor John Rowland and State Comptroller Nancy Wyman made history when they jointly announced a major project to replace the state's aging core financial and administrative systems. These systems, including OSC's Central Accounting and Central Payroll Systems, DOIT's Automated Personnel, State Agency Appropriations Accounting, and Time and Attendance Systems, and many associated agency-based systems, have been replaced by an enterprise resource planning (ERP) package. The project was dubbed Core-CT.

For years, outside consultants for executive and legislative agencies - along with many state information technology managers and core system users - had urged that core computer systems be more integrated. The state’s legacy systems were plagued by multiple languages and platforms, redundant data entry, reconciliation between different databases holding similar data, and dozens of interfaces. These systems were considered outdated, inflexible, and unable to accommodate business-process improvement, easy ad-hoc reporting, or new productivity techniques such as work-flow. An effort at integrating the legacy systems was made in 1993-94 but was abandoned for several reasons. The Core-CT implementation project was marked by a high degree of cooperation by the central agencies.

Core-CT, utilizing so-called ERP software, integrates basic human-resource, payroll, and financial work for all agencies.

"We will be replacing the complicated maze we have now with a simple, integrated system that will deliver services in a more effective and efficient manner," State Comptroller Nancy Wyman said at a joint news conference with the Governor when the project was announced. "The upgrade of our core computer systems is an essential step toward delivering government service with the speed and efficiency people have come to expect in the information age we live in," then-Gov. Rowland added.

Core-CT Fact Sheet