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Progress update - May 2025
ECCP Roadmap
The program is working to finalize the ECCP Strategic Roadmap from the current draft. The next version of the roadmap will align technical capabilities with cloud service offerings for the future. As WaTech service delivery continues to center around cloud technologies, focusing on services, not the individual technologies that comprise them, it becomes more and more important.
Design Review Transformation (DRT)
The DRT Project, in partnership with Slalom, has identified key challenges in the design review process. Building on a recent visioning workshop, the team has delivered an Extension Action Plan and is advancing next steps—such as refining design review criteria, testing a draft Agency Solution Survey, and engaging key stakeholders. Change management efforts are also underway with sessions scheduled in May to align on goals, communications, and culture. These activities will inform the roadmap of a streamlined, scalable Design Review process.
Cloud Government Network (CGN)
After successfully establishing Azure, AWS, and agency connectivity in the lab environment, the production launch of CGN Phase 2 and migration of the first live service to CGN—Domain Controllers as a Service (DCaaS)—is now underway. CGN Phase 3 planning is also in progress, focusing on enhancements like internet ingress/egress and cloud-to-cloud connectivity. To support long-term success, WaTech is partnering with Pluralsight for focused, hands-on training on Terraform, Azure DevOps, and cloud operations in June 2025.
Learning Platform Update
We are continuing to partner with the Department of Enterprise Services (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 into LMS is currently expected to go live around the end of May 2025.
Brokerage Update
Deep dive workshops covering various topics continue with the Special AG. 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.