The parallel run and the cutover

Before the cutover the new BIMMS runs beside the old one on the same database. You can sign in with your usual password, read every screen and report and compare them with the old system; every save is refused with “BIMMS is in parallel-run mode”. Keep entering figures in the old system until the Budget Office announces the cutover.

At the cutover

1. The Budget Office announces the date and time, outside working hours.
2. From then on, enter figures here; the old address shows a notice pointing here.
3. Your password is the same. Administrators are asked to set up an authenticator app at first sign-in.
4. If something is wrong in the first days, the Budget Office can send everyone back to the old system; nothing entered is lost, because both systems share the database.