The team will also take advantage of what our sister institutions have learned. These institutions have become our partners, helping us improve our plans for a successful installation. To help you understand how these challenges relate to DePaul's installation, we offer the following information to better aquaint you with the PeopleSoft project at DePaul. Once the core functionality is in place and employees well trained on the system, project teams will explore how to redesign work flow and customize the software. These revisions can be implemented on whatever time frame works best for the affected areas, without hindering the function of other modules of the system.
Overruns are nothing new to major software installations.
However, we are continuously reevaluating the budget to ensure that we are allocating sufficient and appropriate resources to the project. One recent result of our evaluation was to delay installation of the financial record system by several months, allowing greater resources to be focused on the student system and delaying some costs until a later fiscal period. This type of active budget management should prevent DePaul from facing the budget challenges experienced by other institutions. As in the Student Services System, information being loaded into PeopleSoft will also be loaded into AIMS until we are confident that the PeopleSoft software is ready to take over. This back-up system should prevent service interruptions.