FY2011 - FY2015 Capital Investment Plan
Report - Investment Category - Information Technology

The Commonwealth’s Information Technology Division (ITD) is a central provider of information technology (IT) services for the executive branch agencies, and provides shared services and policy guidance for non-executive branch agencies at their choosing.  These services include internet access, enterprise applications, wide-area network, the official public-facing web portal (www.mass.gov), central e-mail system, and web and application hosting hardware, software and facilities.  ITD sets IT policies and standards for all executive branch agencies and supports the Information Technology Advisory Board, the Chief Information Officer Cabinet, and other interagency IT governance groups.  ITD also coordinates the development and annual update of the Commonwealth’s IT Strategic Plan.

The Commonwealth’s IT infrastructure consists of a wide array of information systems:  183 data centers, 100 phone systems, 24 e-mail systems and 15 data networks – many of which are aging and no longer meet all the modern-day business needs of state government.  These vast and decentralized systems are too complex and fragmented to manage efficiently and are very challenging to maintain securely.  In addition, these systems often cannot work and communicate effectively together, limiting the ability of agencies to collaborate and share resources to provide the kinds of information and services the public has come to expect in the internet age.

The FY11-15 capital plan makes investments to modernize major enterprise information systems, advance the strategic goal of consolidating statewide information technology to promote efficiency, effectiveness and security, and implement shared IT solutions to improve the operations of state government and provide better services to citizens, businesses and others.  The following chart shows the Administration’s total planned five-year capital investments in information technology, as compared to projected fiscal year 2010 spending.

This bar graph show the Information Technology: all sources of funds between the years of FY10 through FY15.

FY11 Highlights