Key Objectives for New System
- Rules-Driven
- Increase agility to respond to changing requirements (e.g. mid-year budget changes)
- Reduce code complexity and development overhead
- Event-Driven/Workflow-Enabled
- State changes can trigger processes (e.g. repackaging)
- Individual student lifecycle within a given AY proceed independently of each other
- Reduce batch processing
- Improve current process inefficiencies due to system fragmentation / limitations
- Fund management
- Manual repackaging (budget changes, overaward, etc)
- Document tracking/management
- ISIR processing (e.g. retract obsolete document requirements on subsequent transactions)
- Online System Access
- Provide academic departments and organizational research units with an online system for managing central, non-central, and extramural funding for graduate students.
- Provide students with online access to their financial support information and the ability to request changes to their support schedule.
- Automate Daily Operations
- Alignment with both OFAS and Graduate Division Financial Processes