This was one of many Upgrade Information and Communication pieces coordinated by Janet Snover, Special Assistant to the Executive Vice President. We are upgrading from release 4.5 to release 4.6 of the SAP software.
Upgrades are a fact of life with software systems.
Mac and PC will look slightly different. A brief Production service outage will occur. MIT Community Involvement MIT community involvement in the 4.6 upgrade revolves around four groups of community representatives. They were organized specifically to provide FSS with a variety of user input. The new SAPgui was installed on their desktops, and the preview group explored the new system for about a week on their own, emailing feedback and questions to the FSS Community Support Team.