Campus Projects
Enterprise
Overview of UW Strategic Administrative Projects
March 2007
There are seven SAPs (Strategic Administrative Projects) underway at the University. These are significant in scope, campus impact, or strategic University relevance. They do not represent all projects in progress. This is an early overview; some timelines and budgets are incomplete. Furthermore, the timelines and priority of these projects are currently being reassessed.
Automated Travel System
The implementation of the PeopleSoft Expense Management module for the management of travel expenses for the Madison campus
Phase I (Rollout to Pilot group) – Production ready Jan 2008
Phase II (Incremental rollout to all campus units) Starts in Spring 2008
Effort
Implementation of a purchased software package, ECRT, used for the certification of effort (time) spent on grants for the Madison, Milwaukee and Extension campuses
Phase I July 2006 – July 2007
Phase II March 2007 – March 2008
Grants.Gov
Implementation of purchased software, from the vendor Cayuse, to assist the faculty in submission of grants (NIH) to the federal government
In Production
Grants
Implementation of five PeopleSoft modules (Grants, Projects, Contracts, Accounts Receivable, and Billing) for the purpose of managing sponsored gifts and grants for the Madison, Milwaukee and Extension campuses
July 2006 – April 2008
LAST
The Legacy Accounting to SFS Transition project is the implementation of the Madison campus legacy accounting business processes into the Shared Financial System. LAST consists of multiple projects.
August 2006 – December 2008
Shared Financial System (SFS)
The SFS upgrade to release 8.9 was completed in mid-March, 2007.
3 new campuses (Stout, Stevens Point, EauClaire) will begin using SFS in July 2007.
Integrated testing for the 2008 Program Release which includes moving Grants, Travel, LAST, and related SIPs into the production environment will begin after Fiscal year-end closing.
Sept 2007 – Jan 2008
Supply Chain
The integration of the Madison Purchasing Classic System to the Shared Financial System for the purpose of getting Purchase Orders into PeopleSoft
Phase I July 2006 – August 2007
Phase II March 2007 – March 2008