This is essentially what I have been doing the past few years among other tasks. The difference is we do a lot of things in-house and even receive security audi

This is essentially what I have been doing the past few years among other tasks. The difference is we do a lot of things in-house and even receive security audits from companies like IBM and insurance-based development process audits as well (do you have backups of source code, CI, integration testing, etc..). Getting off an AS/400 is not easy as it has a completely different architecture and OS. When it comes to data like this legal assurances have to be in place and voted on before real change happens. We have a financial package which replaces this system and some of it written by our team while the backend and most of the migration handled by an outsourced company. The challenges we faced were handling lots of data going back decades to migrate and doing audits for different departments as the migration was ongoing (parallels). All staff have to be trained up in the new software. All of our new stuff has to be PCI compliant. Many processes based on paperwork have to be turned into an e-filing system- this means heavy OCR workloads to get it into a newer system. A lot of financials end up becoming transparent and visible to the public as a result. If the government were to adopt better practices where technology is concerned it will take interest from the citizens themselves and many additional high level positions focused solely on technology. In this article when it says it took them 4 years to just acquire the funds to start on the project I believe it.