Though the SA is being delayed because of the lack of progress in the records area, SWC has made good progress with a number of components of the SA system. The Admissions, Financial Aids, and Student Financial modules have had a substantial amount of work completed on them. However, because of the delay with Records, work has had to stop on these modules. Work will resume on the systems once student records gets further along with its setup. The Financial area continues to evolve since the implementation of the General Ledger and Accounts Payable systems in July.
Work continues on building necessary interfaces and problem solving.
Because of the complexity of the Financial system it has taken longer than anticipated to get staff comfortable in using the Financial system. In order to assist staff with gaining confidence in the system the remainder of the fiscal year will be spent working with the system. The only additional implementation project SWC will be undertaking in the financial area this fiscal year will be the implementation of the Fixed Assets system. To implement Fixed Assets SWC is looking to partner with the WILM consortium and will be using a process, which will significantly minimize the impact on staff. Work has been going on to build the links needed to bring the payroll information into the financial system.