P&P April Issue 2018

Selecting Disaster Recovery as a Cloud Service for Oregon’s New Child Support Enforcement System Preparing ORIGIN RIGIN

By Lorrin King, James Wollenweber, and Vishal Prabhu

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n the event of an unforeseen interruption, it’s critical that an organization have the ability to resume operations and success- fully recover the IT infrastructure expeditiously. For organizations without an up-to-date and tested disaster recovery system in place, recovery following a disaster tends to be quite challenging and expensive. As part of Origin’s imple- mentation, the Oregon Department of Justice’s new child support system, the department collaborated with Deloitte to help evaluate and select a quality disaster recovery solution to enable continuity of services. The Origin of Origin The Oregon Child Support Program ment system for its aging mainframe solution. The solution chosen through this process combines the base California system with the document generation, reporting, and business intelligence functionality from the Michigan and New Jersey systems. Deloitte Consulting LLP was selected by the Department of Justice (DOJ) to design, build, and implement Oregon’s hybrid solution, Origin. conducted analysis to research, evaluate, and choose a replace-