Tailored reports in all other areas will be developed over the next few months on a first come first served basis. This training was better organised on a School or Service basis rather than a mix of staff from different areas. The USDP finance training programme was now fully booked until April 2000. This has not solved the problem with invoicing out of Projects. 6.4 Dave Webster updated the Group on the poor response time when transaction processing in Oracle.
System monitoring shows that the processing is well within hardware capacity.
Fred Cooper asked if this could be treated as top priority. 6.2 Ismarie Lucas had commented that some central departments had forwarded purchase orders for authorisation for work they had done for individuals within the School and she had to make enquiries within the School to find out who had commissioned the work from the central department before she could arrange for the orders to be approved. The Group agreed that with the exception of catering, hospitality, telephones, reprographics, postages etc. 6.5 Fred Cooper had previously informed the Group of folder technology which was available in Oracle Financials as standard functionality. This was particularly useful where a user has to scroll to the right to obtain the required information.