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MAIS Student Administration Advisory Group
and Central Office Upgrade Planning Group
SAAG Meeting #33April 4, 2007
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Agenda PeopleSoft Campus Solutions V9
(HRMS & SA) Upgrade V9 Student Center Demo - Overview
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Why Upgrade? Support for V8 SP1 ends August 2008 Michigan skipped release 8.9 Only supported versions provide
regulatory and tax updates Opportunity to maximize cost of
ownership by using more delivered functionality (with and after upgrade)
Provides path to Fusion
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V9 Overview Continues to be web-based Uses the same PeopleTools platform
(8.48) as Financials Provides folder/hierarchy navigation,
favorites and other usability enhancements
Expands the “virtual campus” via the Student and Faculty Centers
V8.9 and V9 functionally rich – many Michigan mods now in base product
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Upgrade Timeline Go Live targeted for June 2008
Date based on prior business cycle discussions, last upgrade “lessons learned”
Little room for slippage because of support issues
Review of “vanilla” application beginning now for fit/gap analysis
Soft and hard freeze dates TBD
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Upgrade Phases Upgrade Manager: Lisa Poulson
Requirements, Fit/Gap (3/07-8/07). Lead: Karen Kuffner
Design (4/07-9/07). Lead: Mark Nelson Development (7/07-3/08). Lead: David
Jamison System Test (12/07-05/08). Lead:
Elaine Nowak
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Upgrade Impact Upgrades necessitate reallocation of
MAIS staff resources, reducing availability for: Production support Consulting Product Strategy Non-mission critical work effort
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Help Needed from Central Offices
Minimize production support requests 4/07-8/08
Requirements review and confirmation 3/07-8/07
Identification of business process changes in office if necessary
3/07-8/07
Design review and confirmation 4/07-9/07
Testing 12/07-5/08
Participation in SAAG and Central Office Upgrade Planning Group for advice on upgrade issues and rollout strategies
4/07-8/08
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New Functionality: X-SA Student Center Faculty Center Population Selection XML Publisher Navigation and organization
usability improvements
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Campus Community Improvements across HRMS and SA
for Personal Data management Flexible Search/Match Setup Population Selection
Ability to assign 3Cs, place/release Service Indicators, Student Groups and more
Assignment by PS Query, flat file load, or Equation Engine
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Campus Community
Communication Generation CC Letter Gen remains the same New Comm Gen offers more
configurability Supports letters and system-generated
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Recruiting and Admissions Test Score Load and Suspense
Page redesign Test Score security Prospect Create (from test score
loads) Education Component redesign
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Recruiting and Admissions
Academic Program/Plan/Subplan Deactivation control
Prospect Delete Process redesign Application Delete Process
redesign
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SRCAA Student Center & Faculty Center
provide single entry points with cohesive navigation
Configurability in Student Center, Enrollment, and Class Search
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SRCAA
For faculty: Student photos on rosters Restricted grade values Ability to view final exam
schedules
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SRCAA
For students: My Academic Requirements My Planner Shopping Cart (Backpack
equivalent) Enrollment Validation feature Additional class search options
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SRCAA
Transcripts• Flexible transcripts using XML
Publisher• Transcript production can use
Population Selection• Degree Audit Report revisable
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SRCAA Appointments process redesigned Class Permissions process
redesigned Student Group security and
usability Term History Statistics redesigned
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Student Financial Services Satisfactory Academic Progress Equation Engine for Packaging,
Tuition Calculation, Population Selection, etc.
Late Fees SF Student Center: payment plan
enrollment, epayment, optional fees, invoicing, and more
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Student Financial Services FA Awarding with NSLDS Data ePerkins Loan/MPN Self Service 1098T with eConsent FA External Awards Batch Processing Repackaging ACG/SMART Selection and
Monitoring
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V9 Student Center Demo
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V9 Wrap Up
Questions?