These projects assume improvements are available across organizational boundaries in processes and procedures. Systems Development Projects to create programs that automate the improved processes. Data Access Projects to provide data in a reporting environment separate from the operational environment. Information should be replicated from operational systems in a timely manner. Integrated data bases will streamline our work because data can be shared across organizational boundaries.
Processes cross organizational boundaries.
Projects with processes that create data are given priority in the plan. Projects with processes that maintain or retrieve data will benefit from data that has been captured at the source and shared. Data infrastructure and technical infrastructure projects should be designed and implemented along with administrative systems, not as independent activities. The University s current systems are old and inadequate and will not support its future needs. These current systems, built originally to support an organizational view, should be systematically replaced with systems supporting a process view.