Financial System Upgrade
The Financial System Upgrade is complete and the new Financial System is now availalble.
On Thursday, March 22nd, at 2 PM the Financial System will be shut-down in order to upgrade it from Version 8.9 to 9.1. The Financial System is expected to be available by 2 PM on Monday, March 26th. The Wolfpack Reporting System (WRS) will shutdown at midnight, March 23rd and is also expected to be available by 2 PM on Monday, March 26. The Financial System at North Carolina State University is founded upon Oracle’s PeopleSoft
Enterprise Financial Management Application, Version 8.9. Campus and Central Office customers access this system through Oracle’s PeopleSoft Enterprise Portal, called the MyPack
Portal.
The Financial System upgrade is necessary in order to maintain vendor support from Oracle, and will provide several key improvements and efficiency opportunities. Some of these benefits are:
- New capability to attach electronic files as supporting documentation to individual transactions. These improvements will provide electronic documentation and a much more efficient mechanism for sharing information regard the details behind key transactions.
- Workflow improvements and efficiencies that will assist in the maintenance of routing rules and ability to establish ad-hoc reviewers and approvers. These improvements will integrate email notification and ability to determine where a transaction is within the approval process.
- Additional certification for web browsers, such as Internet Explorer, Firefox, Safari, desktop products as MicroSoft Excel 2010, and Operating System such as MicroSoft Windows and Apple Mac OS.*
The target go-live date for Financials 9.1 is March 26, 2012. Please see the Project Time Line for additional details on the upgrade schedule.
The project team would like to thank all of those that volunteered to help test the Financial System Upgrade. We are pleased to report that we have over 90 campus
testers in addition to the Central Office Testers.
*Note that newer versions of web browsers, desktop products and operation systems may exist that function appropriately with Financials 9.1. These products have not been officially
certified by Oracle and some of the features and capabilities may not perform as expected. For a list of the product and release version that are certified with Financials 9.1 (PeopleTools
8.51) please see our list of certified browsers.
