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From The Director
'The Winter of Our Discontent' - isn't this the name of an old Steinbeck novel? With all this recent cold, ice, and snow, we could easily refer to this late winter season in a similar fashion. The University's administrative computing community can also point to historical events and projects that bring to mind long cold days and crisp sharp nights - the highs and lows of lengthy projects. One such project has been the development of our Integrated Business Information Systems (IBIS). The IBIS Project has touched every University business office since its initial efforts in the late 1980's. Almost every 'business' programmer/analyst and IT Manager around the University today can recall their direct involvement in portions of IBIS development. Well, we are now in the last few months of the IBIS Development Project - the end is in sight. We have built an integrated business systems environment that compares to the best that exist today in higher education - and we built it ourselves. The IBIS Development Project will be completed this summer and the IBIS Project Office will cease to exist. However, we will then have a completed integrated business system and related integrated databases that will serve our community well in the years to come. We will continue to enhance this integrated environment and change it as needed in years ahead, with projects such as the EASY Forms re-engineering project.
The feature article of this newsletter describes the steps being taken to complete the IBIS Development Project - which will be declared complete upon the elimination of the current Central Accounting System this summer.
- Ron
Feature Story
Integrated Business Information Systems
The group's main focus has been the elimination of the current Central Accounting System. This is basically the final installment of "finishing IBIS". As of now, we have a production/testing environment for exercising these various processes to ensure accuracy. Following are the major components, with a brief description, that make up this effort:
Personnel Notes
THOMAS R. CALDWELL SERVICE AWARD FOR EXCELLENCE
Congratulations to Diane Kolesar! Diane was presented with the Thomas Caldwell (TC) Award at the AIS All-Staff meeting on Wednesday, February 21.
Tom Caldwell was a senior systems analyst in OAS for over 15 years and died in a house fire, April 10, 1991. In his memory, the T.C. Award was created by then OAS Senior Director Ken Blythe. Throughout his career, Tom Caldwell often gave more than was asked of him. He was an outstanding technician whose innovation improved the professional environment for everyone around him. There are others in Administrative Information Services who, in their own way, are also making tremendous contributions to our organization. To preserve the memory of Tom and recognize the efforts of these individuals, Administrative Information Services has established an annual Thomas R. Caldwell Service Award for Excellence.
Previous winners include:
1992 – Tom Runkle
1993 – Deb Brooks
1994 –
1995 – Scott Smith
1996 – Dawn Boyer
1997 – Susan Decker
1998 – Linda Gearhart
1999 – Betty Langham
2000 – Mike Kauffman
2001 – Kathy DeMartino
2002 – Larry Zemanek
2003 – Robert Crothers
2004 – Gary Gentzel
2005 – Beth Hayes
All employees of AIS are eligible for the award, except prior award winners. Any employee of AIS may nominate a candidate except individuals on the selection committee. Nominees are judged on:
- Dedication to Job
- Interpersonal Relations
- Outstanding Job Knowledge
New Employee:
Brian Hoffman (Programmer/Analyst, Open Standards Development group) started in AIS on 1/29/07. (Photo unavailable at time of publishing.)