The Utah project included collecting and converting data for all 29 of the state's counties, as well as working with a diverse mix of systems including ES&S systems running on Oracle and FoxPro, PMSI systems running on UNIX, and several custom-built systems.
Because Aradyme was able to complete the data migration/conversion work on-time and within budget, and the State of Utah was able to make rapid progress on the development of its voter registration application -- known as VISTA -- the State was able to have a fully compliant, single statewide voter registration system in place before the January 1, 2006 Help America Vote Act (HAVA) deadline.
Utah was also able to have its statewide system up and running in time for 25 of its 29 counties to conduct the November 2005 election using the system. The remaining four counties, which opted to wait until the election was over to transition to VISTA, were then brought online in December.
"The data conversion went very well, better than we would have ever hoped for really. We are very happy with it. And, we have been very, very happy that not only has it gone well, but that we haven't had to spend a lot of time or expertise managing the project," said Ray Palmer, information systems manager in the Office of Planning & Budget for the State of Utah. "I don't know what we would've done if Aradyme hadn't helped us. There were other possibilities, obviously, when we started the project, but it really made a difference having Aradyme handling the migration. By using their services, we have been able to focus on building our application instead of performing the data migration."