CASESTUDY STREAMLINING & OPTIMIZING SYSTEMS WWW.MILCORP.COM GLOBAL FINANCIAL SERVICES CHALLENGE The Department of Global Financial Management Systems (GFMS) at the U.S. Department of State (DoS) manages an extremely complex environment of nancial, accounting, payroll, and reporting systems and interfaces. Consequently, these systems and interfaces are frequently updated, revised, replaced, or retired. Adding to the complexity, there is a high degree of connectivity and interaction among the many systems. Because a change to one system may have far-reaching eects on other systems, the entire environment must be considered before implementing any enhancement. Using paper tracking methods, or simply tracking one system at a time, can result in unintended impacts to secondary systems,

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