The switch to AIS is proving to be a massive task, involving lots of overtime, training and a new mindset for employees used to working on the old mainframe-based system. Bill Capie, associate vice chancellor for administration, said they actually are caught up. Every day something comes up that we didn't expect. They're all small minor problems, but they take time to fix. Capie said 20 people from various departments work full-time on getting AIS running.
Rumors frequently abound about transition problems.
We've transferred a couple of people from accounting over to disbursements to help pick up the slack. He also said vendors for the most part are getting paid promptly. When they do, we chase down their purchasing order and whatever we need to get them paid. Some of those vendors who do that are two weeks in arrears. Staff in the general accounting, purchasing and disbursements offices are using Oracle.