Administrative Services

The secret ingredients of the Sautter-winning GLOW Project

Dick Cortén, Graduate Division — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Betsy Livak and Judy Dobry, co-directors of the GradLink-on-the-Web (GLOW) project, talk about the application development process for this information system, the campus's gateway to information departments need to hire, fund, and advise their graduate students.

Town hall meetings to discuss PPS move to UCOP

Kin Jung, IST–Application Services — Wed, 08 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Two town hall meetings to discuss the migration of the Payroll/Personnel System (PPS) from the UC Berkeley mainframe to that of UC Office of the President (UCOP) have been scheduled for the month of April. Sign up for these meetings via the Blu portal.

Payroll/Personnel System (PPS) moves to UCOP

Kin Jung, IST–Application Services — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 00:00:00 -0700

On May 9, 2009, the Payroll/Personnel System (PPS) is tentatively scheduled to move from the Berkeley campus mainframe to that of the UC Office of the President (UCOP). Moving the system from the campus mainframe to UCOP's mainframe will result in improved efficiencies and cost savings.

Supporting campuswide fundraising with information technology

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

The project to upgrade the Campuswide Alumni/Development System (CADS), the database application that is central to UC Berkeley's fundraising enterprise, has expanded to include enhanced business reporting tools, and planning for the implementation of a new data warehouse. The expansion of the project addresses the need for a robust, centralized data system that can fully support Berkeley's currently unfolding $3 billion fundraising campaign. The evolution of CADS will be so profound that even the name is being changed, from Campuswide Alumni/Development System to Cal Advancement Data System.

IST-Applications Services reduces staff resources effective July 1

JR Schulden, IST-Application Services — Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Effective July 1, 2008, Applications Services is reducing staff resources in the state-funded areas of BFS, Payroll, Production Control, and Student Systems.

First steps to an enterprise data warehouse

Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Working toward the goal of becoming a true enterprise data warehouse, with broad and integrated sets of consistent, reliable, easily accessible, and secure data, the data warehouse is upgrading the Hyperion Business Intelligence toolset, redesigning the core data dimensions, and incorporating more key operational data sets.

CALmessages upgrade

Karin Bliman, IST—Web Applications — Tue, 19 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

In January, CALmessages, the campus's official web broadcast system, underwent a major upgrade. It is now easier for authorized users to send email notifications and campuswide announcements to all campus community members and to target specific emails to specific audiences.

Update on migrating the Campuswide Alumni/Development System (CADS) to a new application

Thu, 14 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

In 2006, University Relations launched an initiative to select and deploy an application to replace CADS, the central database for the campus fundraising community. In spring 2007, a competitive vendor evaluation process was completed and, in December 2007, the evaluation team awarded a contract to SunGard Higher Education for its Advance application. Bringing in Advance provides an off-the-shelf solution to many of CADS's current challenges, while its custom-configuration ability permits fine-tuning to precisely serve a wide range of campus fundraising functions.

eProcurement/eSettlement project

Richard Taylor and Roesia Gerstein, Business Services — Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

This project is a campuswide Procure-to-Pay initiative sponsored and funded by Administration, which will significantly improve purchasing-to-payment transactional operations. A campuswide release of the new system is scheduled for fall 2008

HRMS 9.0 upgrade project

Laurie Böke, Administration—Business & Technology Solutions — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 00:00:00 -0800

HRMS currently is running on the 8.3 version of the PeopleSoft Enterprise software. It is being upgraded to the 9.0 version in order to take advantage of new features and software improvements, and to comply with the campus security standards. The upgrade is scheduled to begin Friday, October 31, 2008.