EIS is
getting a face lift over the fall break that occurs to celebrate the
Thanksgiving holiday. The project consists of upgrading the
modules in EIS known as Learning Solutions to Oracle/PeopleSoft's
version 8.9 software that has been renamed Campus Solutions (CS).
First, it is helpful for you to have some
perspective on the size of the project. From beginning to end the
project spans 170 working days (the half-way point was reached on
Friday, July 27, 2007). There are 108+ UNTS employees participating
in the upgrade (47+ technical and 61+ functional staff).
Since April of this year, UNT and HSC
developers have been burning up their keyboards retrofitting UNTS
customizations into the Campus Solutions 8.9 version of the
delivered PeopleSoft software. The functional areas have been just
as busy -- testing, attending training, documenting changes, and
designing/implementing the security changes (with support from the
EIS Security Administration and EIS Training Administration teams).
These are all basic things required to ensure the upgraded system
meets UNTS functional needs.
The PeopleSoft Application Infrastructure
Management team has taken project members thru several major
milestones since April 2007. These include the upgrade initial pass,
the first, second, and third test move to production upgrade cycles,
and the three sets of patches/fixes applied to the new version.
The Oracle Database Administration team has
been busy supporting the Oracle database backups/changes needed to
support the implementation of this new version of the software. The
CITC Infrastructure and Technical Services team has been installing
and configuring the new hardware purchased to ensure our
infrastructure remains up-to-date. The Data Warehouse and Reporting
Infrastructure team is working on the ETL changes needed to build
our Reporting Database from the new CS 8.9 data model.
From now until go-live in November, the project
team needs to finalize retrofits, documentation, and security
changes, perform a mock go-live cycle, conduct user training, and
finalize testing that includes integration testing and load testing.
And last but not least, perform the REAL go-live cycle over the
Thanksgiving holiday this year.
To learn more about the 8.9 Upgrade Project, go
to the EIS website.
News items will go out soon regarding user training for CS 8.9 as
well as information about the improved self-service center for
students in the MyUNT portal.
Make
sure and check out the latest issue of the Enterprise, a
quarterly web-based publication containing EIS-specific
information. Click on the graphic below to access the October issue:
