2008 Woodie Awards
BG@100 project to make campus-wide changes
By: Colleen Fitzgibbons
Issue date: 3/14/08 Section: Nation
As the University reaches its centennial birthday, a project is underway to provide better service to students, staff and faculty.
Over the next 12 months students and staff will notice various new features to the MyBGSU Web portal, their user ID numbers, schedule of classes and more.
Yesterday in an open-forum the director of the BG@100 Project, William Gerwin, gave a brief overview of the steps taken, present progress and future goals for a new system.
This project started in February 2003 when the BG@100 office initiated a cross functional review of the administrative system, where they surveyed 257 people from the University who used the administration program on the Web.
After reviewing the responses from the surveys, it was decided that a PeopleSoft product would be implemented at the University. In January 2004 the development of plans for creating Human Resources and Payroll started.
PeopleSoft, according to the BG@100 Web site, is the company that makes the administrative software application which allows users to have one or more permission lists to one's User ID.
"This new technology will allow us to be up to date with our users," Gerwin said.
There are two PeopleSoft systems that work together. One is Human Capital Management, which is used to manage the University's human resources, administration and payroll. The second is Financial Management Systems, which will replace the current Advantage Financial to work with financial activity.
"This is truly an interactive system," Gerwin said.
Currently, certain applications on the MyBGSU Web Portal are unavailable at later times in the evening, but the MyBGSU will be available around the clock with the new PeopleSoft system.
Valerie Ziernicki, a senior majoring in marketing, said she remembers when she needed to check what time a class was at 11:30 p.m. and a message came up that said the service was unavailable.
"It's kind of silly to have something like that not available," Ziernicki said.
Over the next 12 months students and staff will notice various new features to the MyBGSU Web portal, their user ID numbers, schedule of classes and more.
Yesterday in an open-forum the director of the BG@100 Project, William Gerwin, gave a brief overview of the steps taken, present progress and future goals for a new system.
This project started in February 2003 when the BG@100 office initiated a cross functional review of the administrative system, where they surveyed 257 people from the University who used the administration program on the Web.
After reviewing the responses from the surveys, it was decided that a PeopleSoft product would be implemented at the University. In January 2004 the development of plans for creating Human Resources and Payroll started.
PeopleSoft, according to the BG@100 Web site, is the company that makes the administrative software application which allows users to have one or more permission lists to one's User ID.
"This new technology will allow us to be up to date with our users," Gerwin said.
There are two PeopleSoft systems that work together. One is Human Capital Management, which is used to manage the University's human resources, administration and payroll. The second is Financial Management Systems, which will replace the current Advantage Financial to work with financial activity.
"This is truly an interactive system," Gerwin said.
Currently, certain applications on the MyBGSU Web Portal are unavailable at later times in the evening, but the MyBGSU will be available around the clock with the new PeopleSoft system.
Valerie Ziernicki, a senior majoring in marketing, said she remembers when she needed to check what time a class was at 11:30 p.m. and a message came up that said the service was unavailable.
"It's kind of silly to have something like that not available," Ziernicki said.
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