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Progress update - April 2025
Design Review Transformation (DRT)
The DRT Project, in partnership with Slalom, has worked closely with WaTech staff and customer agencies to identify pain points in the technical Design Review process—such as unclear roles, fragmented workflows, and high effort requirements. A recent visioning workshop focused on potential solutions to streamline and modernize the process, with the goal of supporting faster, more scalable cloud adoption. Insights from the workshop will inform a prioritized action plan and improvement roadmap.
ECCP Roadmap
The program has developed its first draft of the ECCP Strategic Roadmap. This roadmap incorporates findings from the ECCP vision, agency readiness assessments, customer journeys/service blueprints, and the cloud capability model. This draft is being reviewed by program and executive leadership.
Learning Platform Update
As of March 21, 2025, over 4,100 IT staff, across 50 agencies, have been onboarded and have access to Pluralsight. Thirty-eight agencies have onboarded 100% of their IT staff. While over 2,900 IT staff members have access to Pluralsight, 60% (1,750) have logged in and have begun their learning journey. We are continuing to partner with DES, Sum Total, and Pluralsight to connect to the state LMS which will enable Pluralsight training completion information to flow into our LMS and display on your transcript. Integration to LMS is expected to go live mid-April.
Brokerage Update
Deep dive workshops covering various topics continue with the Special AG and are expected to be completed by early April. The output of the workshops will inform our brokerage strategy for the state and how we enter negotiations with the Cloud Service Providers (AWS and Azure).
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About the ECCP
The Enterprise Cloud Computing Program (ECCP) was created by WaTech to provide leadership, governance, guidance, and resources to accelerate the strategic adoption of cloud technologies across Washington state government.
The overall mission of the ECCP is to accelerate efforts to modernize and transform the state information technology services that Washingtonians require by embracing cloud technology. This is an integral part of WaTech's efforts to create a "connected government" where residents and visitors can access state government services more easily and directly, whether it's getting a license, accessing public health resources, or bidding on a government project.
The program is the outgrowth of a statewide cloud readiness assessment the Office of the Chief Information Officer provided at the Legislature's direction in 2020.
Our Vision: A secure, scalable, and interoperable statewide cloud ecosystem to accelerate agency modernization and provide strategic goals to meet the dynamic needs of Washingtonians.
Our Mission: To modernize and migrate the state's information technology assets to cloud services to accelerate the transformation of critical services for Washingtonians.
The ECC's mission has three focus areas:
- Enable the adoption of cloud technologies - including the development and governance of the state's cloud architecture, policies, and standards - by providing statewide leadership and expert resources.
- Implement a cloud services brokerage function that helps agencies identify and acquire the best solutions at the best prices, and ensures cloud investments are operated securely, efficiently, and in compliance with the state's IT policies and strategic plan.
- Use contracted resources to help agencies identify migration candidates and to plan and implement migration projects.
Program Goals
- Accelerate the modernization of government services by adopting and committing to scalable and sustainable adoption of cloud solutions.
- Enhance statewide security and resilience using cloud platforms, tools, architectures, and standards.
- Shift from a capital expenditure to an operational expenditure model for state IT investment. This would reduce large upfront investments and provide predictable ongoing expenses by paying only for what's used and then scale when needed.
- Improve and optimize cloud operating costs by leveraging pricing at an enterprise scale, with master contracts, centralized services, and transparent "pay as you go" cost metrics.