I finally had time to look at the new Sonris system. Here is what I found.
Input from a friend:
“Its APEX which is Oracle's reporting tool. We actually just moved off of it at work because it was so bad and ancient. We have API backends in our system, but I don't see any in theirs, but give me a few minutes tomorrow when I have some time and I'll see what I can figure out.
APEX does have a pretty predictable structure that generally allows for easily deriving what the hyperlinks should be. (And uses GET based commands which means that the variables are in the URL.) That seems to be the case with this report (such as below.) So worst case, we can do that.
For example Well Serial Number 123456 is https://sonlite.dnr.state.la.us/ords/r/sonris_pub/sonris_data_porta...[ig_master]_well_serial_num=123456
That should work for base data, but it appears that the document repos have checksums which are a little more challenging to directly link to."

Note: API stands for Application Programing Interface.

While I can’t speak to the Federal requirements it appears relatively easy to write bots for this. I appears the main reason they did this is to move to a system that does not need much programing. It is getting hard to find programmers that can program in the old languages such as COBOL and FORTAN as nobody teaches this any more (Pay is now $100-150K). APEX is mainly just configure it out of the box little programing needed. The down side is there is little that can be easily be changed without APIs.

I went through a similar SAP conversion before I retired. We spent hours in meetings being told this is you how you will do your job in the future. Hundreds of people working on this. Millions spent. They put HR, Accounting and the Mill order entry system on it. All departments had to add people to do the same job. They finally abandoned adding the converting plants after the schedule slipped by two years. All those responsible for this either quit or were fired.

Other notable conversions:
Hershey’s Chocolate – Lost millions after conversion. Could not ship product from warehouse in fourth quarter.

Conrail – Freight division – After conversion lost ability to deliver boxcars to some plants. They Actually had to load the freight from a remote siding outside the system into trucks and have the trucks deliver it. Took several months to resolve.

If I get any more feedback I will post it.