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State Fund

We partner with employers and their employees to care for those injured on the job and we champion a culture of workplace safety for our fellow Montanans.

Goals

Agency Goals and Objectives

State Strategic Plan Goal Reference: Goal 1: Fiscal Responsibility

Objectives

  • Manage IT staff and assets to support governance approved and prioritized business insurance goals.
    State Strategic Plan Objective Reference: Objectives: cost effectiveness, transparency
  • Architect for flexible and low-cost system changes and reduced vendor lock in at the application level.
    State Strategic Plan Objective Reference: Objectives: cost effectiveness

State Strategic Plan Goal Reference: Goal 5: Service First

Objectives

  • MSF employees receive insurance functionality and system support that enables value-added and personalized customer service.
    State Strategic Plan Objective Reference: Objectives: communication
  • MSF stakeholders receive timely, anticipatory, and accurate insurance information.
    State Strategic Plan Objective Reference: Objectives: communication

State Strategic Plan Goal Reference: Goal 3: Cybersecurity enhancements and strategy

Objectives

  • Develop and reinforce practices to secure data and minimize risk of exposure to non-authorized parties.
    State Strategic Plan Objective Reference: Objectives: Identify, protect, detect, respond, recover
  • Provide MSF employees and stakeholders with efficient systems and reliable operations environment.
    State Strategic Plan Objective Reference: Objectives: Identify, protect, detect, respond, recover

Information Technology Resources and Capabilities

Number of FTE: 15

Supports: Data center, help desk, server administration, network engineering, telecommunication, business continuity, and mobile technology. Responsible for availability of infrastructure and operational environments that support application deployment to internal and external customers.

Number of FTE: 8

Supports: security for data and environment through integrated security layers, environment design to meet current and future needs of the business, develop and enforce standards to deliver lower total cost of support with improved business flexibility, database administration

Number of FTE: 25

Supports: core insurance and business applications - claim, policy, documents, medical bill payment, business intelligence, general ledger/budget/financial-reporting system, and our human resource information system. Provides vendor management of strategic infrastructure vendors and tactically outsourced business functions.

Number of FTE: 2

Supports: governance – ensure all project decisions are driven, approved, supported, and known by business functions; facilitate corporate strategy, planning, communication, and project management; ensure project success through regular decision meetings, progress tracking, and metrics; management reporting - asset allocation, project budgets, corporate key success measures; manage projects

Projects

Division Montana State Fund - Insurance Operations
Project / Program Purpose and Objectives Multi-phase project to replace legacy policy and billing system with five modern applications.
State Strategic Plan Goal/Objective Reference Goal 4 Unified Digital Government (Enterprise Smart), Objective 1 Modernization
Estimated Start 7/1/2015 Estimated Delivery 12/31/2020
Estimated Cost 33,217,034 Comment
HB 10 Request No Funding Sources MSF President/CEO and Board of Directors approved budget: 33,217,034 - Comment:
Annual Costs Upon Completion Comment TBD
Status of the project as of March 31, even numbered years. Indicate % completed and status of funds expended. Phase one development: 80% complete; $16,813,158 expended

Division Montana State Fund
Project / Program Purpose and Objectives Potential projects approved by MSF Board of Directors or governance committees to leverage volume of insurance business data.
State Strategic Plan Goal/Objective Reference Goal 4 Unified Digital Government (Enterprise Smart), Objective 1 Modernization
Estimated Start 1/1/2020 Estimated Delivery 12/31/2022
Estimated Cost Comment TBD - based on projects approved
HB 10 Request No Funding Sources MSF President/CEO and Board of Directors approved budget: - Comment: TBD - based on projects approved
Annual Costs Upon Completion Comment TBD
Status of the project as of March 31, even numbered years. Indicate % completed and status of funds expended. 2020: Enterprise Data Catalog & Unstructured Extraction Framework - 10% complete $0 expended

Division Montana State Fund
Project / Program Purpose and Objectives Ongoing support and maintenance for existing core business and business support applications.
State Strategic Plan Goal/Objective Reference Goal 3 Cybersecurity Enhancements and Strategy, all Objectives and Goal 4 Unified Digital Government (Enterprise Smart), Objective 1 Modernization
Estimated Start 1/1/2020 Estimated Delivery 12/31/2022
Estimated Cost Comment TBD - based on projects approved and annual maintenance needs
HB 10 Request No Funding Sources MSF President/CEO and Board of Directors approved budget: - Comment: TBD - based on projects approved
Annual Costs Upon Completion Comment
Status of the project as of March 31, even numbered years. Indicate % completed and status of funds expended. Ongoing maintenance completed as approved.

Summary of Hardware

I have reviewed all of my agency's systems in Assurance CM and certify that it is accurate: Yes

Total Number of Appliances 28
Total Number of Physical Servers 59
Total Number of Virtualized Servers 264
Total Usable Storage Space 227 TB
Device Type Quantity Estimated Replacement Value Comments
Desktops 363 467,907
Laptops 31 45,570
Mobile Device 12 14,436
Printers 29 221,500
Camers 12 4,800

Agency Contact Information

Agency Director / Administrator
Laurence Hubbard, President/CEO
495-5015
lhubbard@mt.gov
PO Box 4759 Helena MT 59604
IT Contact (CIO / IT Manager)
Al Parisian, CIO
495-5302
aparisian@mt.gov
PO Box 4759 Helena MT 59604
Information Security Manager
Stacy Ripple, Director Operations
495-5327
sripple@mt.gov
PO Box 4759 Helena MT 59604