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The Enterprise Information Systems (EIS) team at USC aims to enhance educational, research, and administrative functions by replacing outdated business applications with modern, efficient systems. Key goals include managing the implementation of Kuali and Workday systems, completing the Office 365 project, and migrating essential infrastructures. With a focus on operational excellence, EIS seeks to align its objectives with the university's strategic vision, providing critical support for faculty, staff, students, and other stakeholders while ensuring that budget and project timelines are met.
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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