Presenting Project SAGE
Posted by bmackay on November 14, 2008
Pssst do you want to know a secret?
You would be forgiven to have missed that for the last 10 months about 40 of us have been working on a multi-year, multi-million dollar Enterprise Systems Renewal project. We are standardizing our ERP (Enterprise Resources Planning) Systems on SunGard Banner. The core modules of this system are Student, Finance, HR/Payroll, Advancement, Degree Audit, Financial Aid etc. This project replaces effectively all administrative systems of the former OLA and UCC. But this project is so much more. It also includes Workflow, Portal Technology, Self-Service functionality, Operational Data Store, Enterprise Data Warehousing, CRM and more.
Now you’d think with such a big project that CHANGES EVERYTHING administrative system-wise at our school, everyone would know about it. Sadly this isn’t the case. Having a dry, technical project title called “ERP Project” probably doesn’t inspire much enthusiasm either. So with the help of some awesomely talented marketing people (i.e. Jennifer Read), we’ve come up with a new look and new name for the project.
We chose Project SAGE because;
a. It relates to really smart people – our university has lots of them;
b. As a herb, it’s fresh and alive, and;
c. Sagebrush can be found throughout our region. In fact, our logo is sage green!
We also will be including the owl in our logo as TRU is famous for them, and I happen to like owls.
The first go-live will be Finance/HR/Payroll in April 2009. Check out the project SAGE website for more info.
And by the way- happy General Person – only 500,000 student records to go!
Brian
