AZ360 Project Update

View the online AZ360 project dashboard for current project status information. The project is GREEN and ON TRACK heading for Phase 1 implementation in May 2025.

Department User Acceptance Testing

Department UAT has been extended until March 28 to allow the project team to test previously untested functionality and remaining interfaces. Department testers have completed and passed more than 1,200 test scripts to date.

Department Readiness

The Project Team has begun working with departments to assess their preparedness to implement AZ360 at Phase 1 Go Live in May 2025. Agency Captains are being asked to work with their ADOA-assigned Change Ambassadors to complete a readiness assessment questionnaire by April. 

Dates to Know

Jan. 15: Lawson HRIS code freeze - no more system enhancements will be approved in HRIS, the Lawson solution that is being replaced by AZ360.

Feb. 7: AZ360 “soft” code freeze. The AZ360 project’s Change Control Board will no longer approve change requests to the AZ360 Advantage solution.

April 4: AZ360 “hard” code freeze. This is the last date prior to Phase 1 Go Live scheduled by the vendor, CGI, to release mass system enhancements in their Advantage cloud solution. 

March 10-May 2: Instructor-led training for AZ360 system Power Users (the roughly 1K employees whose daily work requires them to operate in the system).

April 7: The projected date when employees and managers can expect to begin accessing end user self learning materials, such as videos and quick reference guides. 

Employee Action Needed - HRIS Data Cleansing

As a reminder to all State of Arizona employees, please review your Y.E.S. data records and ensure that the information is current, complete and accurate. This will help ensure testing and parallel payroll processing goes smoothly. Employees should keep Y.E.S. data current until AZ360 goes live in May 2025. Also, between now and Go Live, the project team may be contacting certain departments with specific system data clean up needs. The team is currently working with a handful of departments to address items that must be completed by Jan. 6.