Others noted small changes have occurred due to the functionality of the software. One school reported that they are using PS to drive changes and pushing functions back out to schools. The University of Rhode Island indicated that they are re-engineering to focus on a process based system. Both Northwestern and the University of Kansas will do this and then will integrate later. University of Utah reported that they are using the name parsing module extensively and have five name types.
Names become a bigger issue when dealing with gifts from alumni.
University of Utah reported that they were involved very early on with PS and ended up developing a hybrid model. The message agent does not scale for something like student registration. They are using a distributed message agent server model with fifteen servers handling the message agent. They developed their own web front end, which was similar to their previous design. Their read-only applications go directly against the database.