Specifications include, but are not limited to: BAI is the primary software application used at the County for financial functions including: General Ledger, Budgeting, Accounts Payable, Payroll, Purchasing, Commissioner of Revenue and Treasurer functions. The County implemented BAI in the 1980s and have been keeping the system up-to-date. The BAI system is a green-screen system that runs on an AS400 platform (renamed to IBM eServer iSeries). In 2013, the County implemented a new iSeries server to host the BAI system. The County has developed manual workarounds to track key information in MS Excel such as budgeting, financial reporting, and human resources information, due to the limited use of or non-existent functionality within the system. End users at the County reported several challenges with the current environment, including a lack of functionality such as workflow, electronic document management, embedded reporting, forecasting, and executive performance dashboards. As the primary system for financial functions, it is anticipated that BAI will be replaced with the future financial system
