The Interior Department recently completed a migration of its financial management system to the cloud, making it the first to do so among federal agencies, according to Unisys, which helped the department manage the transition.
This fall the department finished moving its SAP and Compusearch systems into a cloud environment, giving over management of its accounting infrastructure to Unisys and contractor partner Virtustream in an as-a-service model.
Putting the financial system in the cloud allows the department to manage budgets, analyze spending and track grants in a more agile and collaborative fashion, Coleman said.
She noted the migration complies with both the Office of Management and Budget’s cloud first mandate, as well as Interior’s own IT and cybersecurity policies.
The move comes as Interior looks to wrap up its five-year IT modernization plan, which began in 2011.
