Project Updates and Archives

• Version 7.5 Modules in Production
  • Course Catalog since February 1999
  • Payroll since March 1999
  • Financial Aid since April 1999
  • Admissions (Grad/Undergrad) since May 1999
  • Student Records-Program Plans since May 1999
  • Student Records-Earned Hours since May 1999
  • Medical Admissions since June 1999
• Thanks to Betty Hampton of CARE (Counselors and Advisors Resource Exchange), a table matching CICS advising screens to ORION panels is available online
• Stargazer's Gazette outlines new aspects of Project ORION at some remote sites and provides information about a newly available module.

Ready reference sites

• For a brief look at Project ORION, see the summary slideshow (updated 12/22/98) and Eve Bohakel's story from the IT online newsletter (posted 1/7/99).
• Frequently asked questions (FAQs) are answered, and others requested from readers.
• SpeakPeopleSoft provides a short lexicon of technical terms from the project software suppliers.
• Minutes of the Project Management Team meetings document weekly progress in all phases of Project ORION. The minutes include hyperlinks to Human Resources and Student Administration status reports for readers in the louisville.edu domain; other readers should e-mail the project for further information.
• Minimumrequirements for configuration of workstations have been updated by PeopleSoft.

Archive

• Remembering Greg Greider. . .
• Quarterly reports on project developments are available.
• Transition Report on the completion of the project prototyping (posted 05/20/98).
• On May 7, 1998, the Student Administration team completed their 25-week prototyping project, meeting all objectives. A detailed report documents the results of this phase (posted 05/15/98).
• Human Resources prototyping has met all project objectives, as documented in the detailed report on the results of this phase (posted 04/27/98).
• Team leaders and project management planned next steps in the implementation process at an all-day meeting on Friday, March 20, 1998. (Posted 03/21/98)
• The business process prototyping phase of Project ORION ran through the end of April 1998. Summaries of weekly progress are available.
• A database of issues brought forward for discussion by any of the project participants isopen for review and comment. An issues-resolution plan identifies the different kinds of issues and how they will be resolved.
• Project ORION will use a dual-phase approach to the implementation process, 1997-2002 (posted 11/04/97).
• The executive summary of the scope phase is available for review. The scope process ended on Tuesday, November 25, 1997, with a presentation of scope findings to the Provost's Operations Council. An abbreviated summary of the findings is also available (posted 12/04/97).
• Information for Macintosh users has been made available by PeopleSoft (posted 10/20/97).
• A slideshow overview summarizes the Project ORION scope and goals. (Updated 11/25/97)

Updated 07/05/00