ConnectCarolina Tech Talk

We will have Fran Dykstra, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Enterprise Applications, on hand with other folks from the ConnectCarolina project to have some technical discussion around the upcoming HR/Payroll/Finance go-live in October along with the current Student System and Portal that are already live in ConnectCarolina.

Here is an outline of things that we came up with to be part of the discussion:

• The basics
• Why are we doing this
• HR/Payroll and Finance join Campus Solutions in ConnectCarolina
• Department numbers are changing from 4 digits to 6 digits; number of departments greatly expanded
• Chart of Accounts is changing from simple FRS structure to more complex PeopleSoft chart fields
• Systems Staying and Going
• Campus involvement and Testing
• Training and Access
• The impact to IT staff who purchase goods and services, hire people, and get paid through payroll.
• Technical aspects of PeopleSoft
• Retrofitting systems
• Departmental Data Access (DDA) data flow
• Interfaces to other systems
• Printing from CC
• Security
• Business Intelligence (reporting)
• InfoPorte
• SAS tools
• Legacy data and historical reporting
• Post go-live support
• using Remedy for support
• browsers
• VPN and UNC-Secure
• Other parts of ConnectCarolina
• PS Portal
• ImageNow
• Mobile

ConnectCarolina Tech Talk Slides (PDF)