We will still maintain appropriate levels of financial control to avoid putting the university at risk. These are all false . Release 1 of the Core Financials system will run on Windows, Macintosh and UNIX desktops. Budget transfers and journal entries will be done using Netscape's Web browser 4.0.5. Access to Oracle's 10SC application will most likely be through NTrique, which means that the Oracle application itself will not be loaded on individual desktops.
Guidelines are available to help people make a determination.
In addition, the Core Financials Project has developed a questionnaire to help management in local areas assess how many computers will need to be updated or replaced. We plan to implement a version of Oracle that is Web-enabled so that journals, budget revisions and many reports will be done using a Web browser. We hope this will make the system easy to use, address people's concern about desktop issues and reduce the need for extensive training in Oracle for most users. For example, having a Web page where you simply fill in the blanks on a form to perform straightforward transactions is much easier than having to directly access the system. This type of interface is also generally platform-independent.