It is a typical story for both states. Nevada's system is 20 years old and inflexible. It handles information for about 120 state agencies and offices, Holt said, most of which have a personnel representative. Locked in The department maintains all employee information and issues standard reports. If someone wants a report on, say, turnover for law enforcement employees in the Las Vegas area, that user has to go through paper reports and do a lot of guessing, Holt said.
Regulatory changes throw the system for a loop.
When the Family and Medical Leave Act passed in 1993, Holt said, Nevada had to hire programmers to work that information into the system. Florida has much the same situation. Its mainframe systems were built in the 1970s to handle payroll, accounting, purchasing, personnel and budgeting, project coordinator Linda Fuchs said. They are limited in ability and lack integration. States have been less flexible than local governments because they have a lot of legacy, in-house applications, said Randy Meek, senior manager of Deloitte Consulting's public sector group of Pittsburgh.