With their successful experience in building a research administration system for Mass General we believe that further discussions with this company will be beneficial. Breakaway visited Cornell to demonstrate the system on April 1. Reporting and Warehousing Report 184 was distributed on paper in March and again the week of April 8. Additional changes will be made to position and job level data once programming changes required to implement batch update are completed. The infrastructure for delivering this report electronically is ready and the report will be delivered in a phased way to make sure the mechanisms are understandable and working well.
Plans are underway to provide information about reports and reporting through a Web site.
Classroom training on position management, labor distribution and student employment is complete. Web-based instructions for using Actuate, along with a sample report were developed and piloted. The issue of paying the wrong department for overtime can be resolved by fixing the employee with multiple jobs. Any employee with a secondary job should have the standard hours of .01. This will then charge the appropriate department with the overtime.