Accounting & Financial Services DaFIS Transaction Processing II January 6, 2003

Accounting & Financial Services History DaFIS is 5 ½ years old but the architecture is older. After implementation, enhancement requests Tier 1 report – April, Draft project plan – late AdC3 presentation of plan – April, Exploration into FIS2 consortium - January through September, 2002.

Accounting & Financial Services Why TP 2? The existing design of TP1 will not meet the future needs of the campus in the area of functionality, maintainability, portability & stability. The result is a system that is difficult to maintain in a timely manner and a limited number of platforms where the application can be deployed. Uniface, the current TP1 application language, is not prevalent in the industry.

Accounting & Financial Services How Are We Accomplishing TP2? The key - heavy user interaction between business users, business experts, analysts, and developers Identified Gaps with Business Experts Joint Requirements Planning (JRP) Sessions Joint Application Design (JAD) Sessions Phased Approach By Module Infrastructure and Accounts Receivable Purchasing, Accounts Payable, CAMS, and Financials In development In requirements

Accounting & Financial Services Architecture Outline Front-end Replace UNIFACE with JAVA Swing for the UI Executable from the portal, context sensitive help, enhanced user functionality, easy client setup Middle – Tier  Replace UNIFACE middle-ware with JAVA Integrates with databases, offers enhanced functionality and maintainability Back-end Retain Oracle as a stable, high performing, proven system, which will continue to integrate with the GL and DS systems.

Accounting & Financial Services The Client  We currently maintain a fat client  A true thin client definition  TP2 – a “Rich Thin Client”  Initial Execution vs. Subsequent Execution

Accounting & Financial Services Demonstration  Launching DaFIS from the Web  What is the backplane  Accounts Receivable and the user interface

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