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A brief history
The state processes payroll for its 36,000+ employees using a nearly 40-year-old, mainframe hosted, legacy system written in COBOL. This system is clunky and cumbersome, causing some 600 agency HR, payroll, and finance professionals to create laborious manual workarounds to accommodate modern best practices and legislative needs.
A previous attempt, HRWorks, began in 2014, seeking to modernize the payroll system, implement a statewide HRIS system and a standardized time and leave solution for all state agencies. This attempt required extreme coordination of efforts between vendor partners including: Workday, CGI, Deloitte and UKG (formerly Kronos). HRWorks was rebooted in 2019 adopting agile methodologies. The project was ultimately cancelled in mid-2020 due to a lack of progress and funding constraints as the state worked to overcome challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
DPA secured incremental annual funding for the current project in 2022 with a three year projected timeline.
CPPS becomes COMPAS
CPPS -- the Colorado Payroll Personnel System -- is nearly 40 years old. If it were a state employee, it would be close to retirement and that's what we're looking to do -- retire this system.
Sunsetting CPPS and moving the state's payroll processing to a vendor-cloud-SaaS solution will eliminate millions of dollars in operating costs annually and relieve the state of mountains of tech debt.
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