Tyler Technologies Migration Assessment — Sized, Risk-Registered, Fund-Accounting-Aware

A Tyler Technologies migration assessment is the structured, evidence-based diagnostic that any county, city, court, special district or school district should run before committing to a Munis, Eden, iNovah, Energov, Brazos, Odyssey or Enterprise ERP replacement project. The deliverable is not a slide deck — it is a working inventory: every active Tyler product in scope, every Munis ORG/OBJ/PROJ chartfield combination, every Eden fund/department/account string, every Odyssey case-type code, every Energov record-type, every iNovah point-of-sale terminal config, every active Crystal Report and Tyler Reporter report, every interface to a state reporting system (PERS, TCEQ, TWC, EDD, NYSE&G, NYSLRS), every CJIS-scoped surface in Courts and CAD, and every Tyler Citizen Self-Service portal. The Tyler Technologies migration assessment closes with a sized, risk-registered, fund-accounting-aware roadmap to Oracle Fusion Public Sector Financials with a defensible budget and timeline the County CFO, City Manager, Clerk of Court and CIO will sign without escalation.

Five buyer profiles drive Tyler Technologies migration assessment engagements. (1) Counties on Munis ERP whose Tyler subscription has crossed $1M annually and where finance is consolidating with Oracle Fusion. (2) Cities still on Eden Financials being aggressively pushed by Tyler to migrate to Tyler Enterprise ERP, who are evaluating Fusion as an alternative. (3) Counties consolidating a fragmented legacy stack — pre-Munis BS&A, pre-Eden Tyler products, Sungard, Lawson — onto Fusion, where Tyler Courts (Odyssey) and Tyler Public Safety stay but financials move to Fusion. (4) State agencies whose central-services finance has standardised on Fusion and who need every county-funded program traced through to Tyler-driven local revenue. (5) Special districts (utility, fire, water, transit) running Munis Utility Billing whose parent county is migrating to Fusion. In every case the Tyler Technologies migration assessment answers the same five questions: what's in scope, what stays, what migrates, what it costs, and what could derail it.

A complete Tyler Technologies migration assessment runs 4–6 weeks for a mid-sized county or city, 6–8 weeks for a multi-product footprint (Munis + Energov + iNovah + Courts), and 8–10 weeks if Courts Odyssey + CAD public-safety are in primary scope with full CJIS evidence collection. Week 1 is read-only access provisioning, Tyler SQL Server and IBM i credentials, Energov Azure API keys, Odyssey case-type access. Weeks 2–4 are automated discovery: every ORG/OBJ/PROJ combination crawled, every active position in Munis HR/Payroll catalogued, every Crystal Report and Tyler Reporter report inventoried, every Energov record-type counted, every Odyssey case-type counted, every Citizen Self-Service portal endpoint inventoried. Weeks 4–6 are the synthesis: fund-accounting crosswalk strawman, position-control mapping, GASB compliance map, Single Audit Act schedule (SEFA) reconciliation plan, CJIS partitioning plan, sized roadmap with risk register. Final deliverable in week 6 is the signed Tyler Technologies migration assessment with County CFO, Clerk of Court, CIO and external auditor walkthrough.

Pricing reflects scope, not seat-count. A focused single-product Tyler Technologies migration assessment (Munis financials only, no HR/Payroll, no Energov, no Courts) is typically $35K–$55K and lands in 4 weeks. A standard mid-county multi-product assessment (Munis Fin + HR/Payroll + Eden + Energov + iNovah) is $75K–$120K and lands in 6 weeks. A full enterprise assessment including Courts Odyssey, CAD public-safety, Citizen Self-Service portal inventory and state-reporting integration discovery is $140K–$220K over 8–10 weeks. Every Tyler Technologies migration assessment fee is credited against the subsequent migration project if you proceed, so the effective net cost is zero for clients who move forward. Fixed-fee, no time-and-materials, defined deliverable, signed acceptance criteria — counties and cities consistently report the assessment alone repays its cost by avoiding the most expensive scoping mistakes.

Fund accounting is the most-underestimated source of migration risk in any Tyler-to-Fusion programme — and the Tyler Technologies migration assessment treats it as a top-billed deliverable, not a footnote. The assessment crawls every active ORG/OBJ/PROJ combination in Munis (or every Eden fund/department/account string), identifies fund-level rollups (General Fund 100, Special Revenue Funds, Capital Projects Funds, Enterprise Funds for water/sewer/refuse, Internal Service Funds for fleet/IT/risk, Permanent Funds for endowments, Fiduciary/Pension Funds), and produces a Fusion Public Sector Financials six-segment COA strawman that preserves modified-accrual governmental fund accounting on the General Fund side and accrual proprietary fund accounting on the Enterprise/Internal Service side. GASB 34 fund-level + government-wide reconciliation, GASB 68 pension reporting, GASB 87 lease accounting, GASB 96 SBITA accounting, GASB 100 accounting changes and GASB 101 compensated absences each get a dedicated section in the assessment with the migration approach and the audit-walkthrough plan.

Yes — and CJIS compliance gets a dedicated workstream because the FBI CJIS Security Policy 5.9 applies the moment criminal-justice information leaves Odyssey. The Tyler Technologies migration assessment for Courts inventories every case-type code in Odyssey, the sealed-record and juvenile-record partitions, the expungement workflows, the inter-agency interfaces to sheriff/police RMS and state DOC systems, every signed digital exhibit and court-order, and every clerk-of-court self-service portal endpoint. The assessment produces a CJIS-compliant migration plan with: AES-256 encryption-at-rest evidence, MFA + smart-card or equivalent advanced-authentication plan, role-based access control with documented separation of duties, immutable access logging with quarterly access certification commitments, FedRAMP-aligned data residency, incident-response plan and physical security controls on the underlying object storage region. The FBI CJIS auditor and the state-level CJIS coordinator both accept the assessment deliverable on first review.

Public-sector HR runs on position control — every position is budgeted, every position is funded by specific fund/department combinations, every position has step/grade salary structures negotiated through collective bargaining with AFSCME, IAFF, FOP, SEIU, NEA-affiliates and dozens of jurisdiction-specific bargaining units. The Tyler Technologies migration assessment inventories every active and frozen position in Munis Position Control, every step/grade table, every union code, every civil service classification, every FLSA status, every retirement plan eligibility (state PERS, local pension boards, federal CSRS/FERS for federally-funded positions). It produces a Fusion HCM Position Management mapping with the funding-string-to-position relationship preserved for encumbrance carryover, the step/grade tables converted to Fusion grade rate structures, and a union-by-union walkthrough plan for HR and the union business agents to review before the migration begins.

No. The Tyler Technologies migration assessment is delivered as a vendor-neutral document the County or City owns outright, with source-of-truth artefacts (discovery JSON, crosswalk CSVs, risk register, sized roadmap, CJIS partitioning plan, GRRS retention manifest, signed sign-off pack) that any successor implementation partner can pick up and execute. About 70% of assessment clients do proceed with Syntra ETL because the pre-built Tyler extractors, the fund-accounting-aware crosswalk engine and the CJIS-compliant archive partition are already proven in the assessment phase — but there is no contractual lock-in. The remaining 30% take the assessment to a competitive RFP or to their incumbent SI; we have lost bids and won bids on the assessment alone, which is exactly the calibration we want. The Tyler Technologies migration assessment fee is credited against the subsequent migration if you proceed with us.