https://www.eastbaytimes.com/2020/01/10/8-years-and-1-billion-later-californias-super-financial-computer-upgrade-still-not-doing-its-job/

It was a logical, exquisitely simple idea: Build one single computer system to track and manage California’s bounteous spending of public money.

When work began to modernize the state’s creaky mishmash of financial computer systems, the new super system was supposed to cost $617 million, be complete in four years, take care of all of California’s financial reporting needs — and be so transparent that even regular folks could easily scour state spending.