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ORGANIZATIONAL SUMMARY. Enterprise Information Systems. Ken Wozniak. Core Goals. EIS provides pragmatic, comprehensive, high-quality enterprise systems that enable the university’s educational, research and administrative enterprises to meet their strategic objectives.
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ORGANIZATIONAL SUMMARY Enterprise Information Systems Ken Wozniak
Core Goals • EIS provides pragmatic, comprehensive, high-quality enterprise systems that enable the university’s educational, research and administrative enterprises to meet their strategic objectives. • To that end, EIS’s current focus is to replace the university’s suite of 25-30 year old business applications with modern systems that add efficiency throughout the university enterprise. • Financial, research administration, hr/payroll, data management, time/attendance, and email/calendar systems to be replaced by the end of 2014. • Student systems replacement plan to be presented to the finance committee of the board of trustees May 2013
Core Business: Goals • Manage the Kuali Financial System, Kuali Enterprise Workflow, Workday HR/Payroll, Research Administration System Suite, Business Intelligence/data management, Laserfiche, PeopleAdmin, VFAM, and T2 projects on time and on budget. • Complete the Office 365 email and calendaring project, and keep the project on time and on budget. • Migrate the SIS ecosystem and Enterprise Service infrastructure to the Arizona DR site and conduct a successful DR test. • Ensure that USC’s Kuali Student participation meets the expectations of the Kuali Student project while aligning with USC’s best interests. • Develop an overall system support structure and plan commensurate with the new enterprise applications • Refresh the Oracle, Blackboard and Web infrastructures • Develop solutions for common Rice (Kuali Middleware), capacity monitoring and planning, operational data store, and Identity & Access Mgmt • Manage the EIS budget within expectations, and ensure that the budget and spending plans are aligned
Core Business: Critical Services • Development/implementation of new enterprise-level business applications (open source and cloud-based) • Enhancement and maintenance of existing research administration, financial, hr/payroll/time & attendance, business intelligence/data management/ reporting/imaging, faculty salary management, and email/calendar systems • Enhancement and maintenance of legacy student information systems • Support of the learning management system and web development environment • Support and development of the Identity Access Management and Global Directory Services environments • Performance monitoring and capacity planning for enterprise applications • Development, implementation and support of enterprise computing platforms and databases, at both the primary and disaster recovery data centers • Direction of USC’s active participation in the Kuali Foundation’s open source higher education administrative system development and support.
Core Business: Customers • Faculty • Staff • Students/Parents • Alumni • Donors
FY’13 Accomplishments • The following new systems were moved to production in FY13: • Kuali purchasing/accounts payable and eMarket • Kuali automated disbursement voucher and quick expense claims • Kuali general ledger • Kuali capital asset management • Cognos business intelligence • diSClose conflict of interest for research administration • CORES lab recharge for research administration • T2 time and attendance • ESD person entity for SIS data reporting and decision support • Microsoft Office 365 cloud-based email and calendar • An off-campus studies panel module was added to the curriculum mgmt system • The following new systems are planned for production by the end of FY13: • Kuali Coeus post-award for research administration • Workday cloud-based hr/payroll • Expansion of the Cognos business intelligence system to support the decision support and reporting requirements associated with the Kuali Coeus and Workday implementations
FY’14 Planned Initiatives • Implement Kuali Coeus pre-award for research administration • Implement Kuali Budget Construction to replace BDS • Complete the rollout of Microsoft Office 365 for email and calendar • Expand the ESD person entity for decision support and reporting • Initiate implementation of the Kuali Bursar/Accounts Receivable system • Lead USC’s participation on the Kuali/Sigma Financial Aid system development to accelerate delivery by 4 years • Expand the use of the Cognos business intelligence system • Upgrade the Viterbi VFAM faculty recruiting system for enterprise use • Expand Kuali Enterprise Workflow to automate business processes • Exploit mobile technologies to add efficiency to business processes • Develop a system support plan aligned with the new systems • Launch an upgrade of the learning management system (cloud-based) • Refresh the DR strategy and associated plan for use of the DR facilities