The new commercial off the shelf software suite will help redress procedural inefficiencies, usability deficiencies, and provide increased flexibility and integration with reporting tools. The software will also promote greater use of the budgeting tool and assist in alignment with the Australian National Audit Office better practice recommendations.

According to DoHA documents, the department currently relies on Microsoft Excel to manage departmental and administered budgets and its internal allocation, monitoring and reporting.

"The Department does not have an integrated budget and forecasting system within their existing systems suite and hence has had to resort to excel workbooks as an interim work-around in order to record and report budget and forecasting information," the documents read.

"Additionally, the Department lacks a departmental capital budgeting tool. There is currently an over-reliance on division-specific excel spread sheets that are used to manage significant levels of funding provided by Government. This current state is viewed as a critical risk factor."