Administrative Technologies Projects
Administrative Technologies continuously strives to colloborate on projects that will positively impact Illinois State University's needs and continued development. With the creation of a virtual Project Management Office (PMO) and a strong focus on data collection and analysis, Administrative Technologies has established itself as a leader in Project Management.
Cardinal Court
Project Manager: Monika Jallepali
Description: Modifying Housing and Dining applications to account for new residence complex
Status: In Testing. Development is just about completed. A number of UAT's have been performed and defect corrections being made.
Scheduled Delivery Date: February 2012
Client Modernization
Project Manager: Ryan Grahs
Description: Research Windows 7 operating system, determine the appropriate configuration needed to provide a useable and secure computing client and then populate our customer's workstations with the new environmnet
Status: Approximately 20% of customer's workstations have the Windows 7 environment, with the remaining worstations estimated to be completed by December 2012.
Scheduled Delivery Date: December 2012
Grade Reporting Operational Data Store (ODS)
Project Manager: Ed Vize
Description: The Grade Reporting ODS project aims to build an operational data store for all grade related data that currently resides on the mainframe. Industry standards advise to keep reporting data separate from operational data. This project will help meet that requirement by creating a reporting database. The new Informatica tool recently acquired by BITS will be heavily utilized to perform the extract, transformation, and loading of the data.
Status: Analysis 95% completed. Meeting with customers to determine ODS load times in order to meet SLA. Developers to undergo Informatica training mid February.
Scheduled Delivery Date: August 2012
Housing- Restriction
Project Manager: Mary Jo Waller
Description: Program modifications needed to restrict Juniors and Seniors from residing in on-campus housing.
Status: Analysis is underway. Changes will be worked in with the Cardinal Court project
Scheduled Delivery Date: February 2012
iPeople- Commitment Accounting Effort
Project Manager: Rick Hamblin
Description: Engaged consulting resource to review issues encountered with commitment accounting functionality since the implementation of PeopleSoft.
Status: Project team is working through gap analysis. The Work Study module is close to completion.
Scheduled Delivery Date: January 2012
RightFAX Enterprise
Project Manager: Dudley Roach
Description: Redesigning the current RightFAX virtual faxing application into an enterprise class service that incorporates new features of the application, server virtualization, database clustering, and server redundancy.
Status: Working on technical issues related to integrating the RightFAX software and the campus telephone system, as well as web interface browser limitations.
Scheduled Delivery Date: TBD
Service Center Operations Manager (SCOM)
Project Manager: Dudley Roach
Description: The development and implementation of a new central system to monitor all aspects of IT services offered by Admininstrative Technologies.
Status: Phase I and II are complete. Current efforts focus on expanding the monitoring beyond the hardware and looking at the services....
Scheduled Delivery Date: December 2011
Tier 1 VMware Infrastructure
Project Manager: Chris Ahillen
Description: Design and build a VMware environment to hourse systems that require large amounts of computing resources.
Status: Implemented a short term environment consisting of repurposed hardware to host systems that needed immediate deployment. The second phase of this project will revolve around the installation of more robust host servers to provide a long term Tier 1 virtual environment.
Scheduled Delivery Date: March 2012
Velocity Re-Architecture
Project Manager: Dudley Roach
Description: Re-architect the current Velocity security access and monitoring system to support the security needs of the entire campus
Status: Scheduled to begin in January 2012
Scheduled Delivery Date: June 2012
