This is the home page for the Wesleyan Financial System Implementation. This site contains links to important project documents, including goal statement, project scope, time schedule, information on project teams and information on system functionality.
Background
Wesleyan’s current financial system (FRS) was originally installed in 1992. FRS is a cobal-based mainframe system that only supports terminal input and query. The original vendor has been bought out and the current vendor is Sungard. FRS currently runs on a VAX machine, which is over 12 years old but continues to be very reliable.
The current FRS vendor, Sungard, announced in 1997 that support for the FRS system would expire in 2010. With this announcement, the age of the system, the older technology of both the software and hardware, and the recent completion of our PeopleSoft upgrade to version 8.9, we determined that this was a good time to embark on an upgrade of the financial system.
New System
The new system selected is PeopleSoft Financials version 9.0. This system will be compatible with our existing Student Administration and HR Systems which are also PeopleSoft. The project began in June, 2008 with a target go-live in the new system of July 1, 2009. The implementation is being accomplished through a partnership with the Finance Office Staff, ITS and the consulting partner that was selected, Smart ERP. To read more about the project and get and update on where we are, click the links on the left.
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