QUASR
Queen's University-
News
- New 2011 HR Timeline Announced
- New Student Administration System Launched
- QCARD Naming Contest
- Student Contracts Info Sessions
- Finance Implementation Support
- Guide to PeopleSoft Public Queries
- PeopleSoft Account Code Mapping Channel Removed
- Financial Services Support Centre Launched
- Reporting System Now Online
- New Student Admin System Coming
- Preparing for New HR Systems
- Finance Admin System Launched
- New Coding Structure Will Streamline Queen's Accounting
- QUASR Training Programs Launch
- QUASR On Track for New Finance Systems This Fall
- Townhall Attendees Get Preview of New System
- QUASR Maps Way Ahead
- Improving the Way Queen's Does Business
- Summer Student Interns
- New Finance System to Launch in November
- First Instances of Oracle PeopleSoft Installed
- QUASR On Schedule and In Their New Space
- Deloitte Confirmed as System Integration Partner
- QUASR Project Kicks Off
- Board Approves QUASR Project
- Welcome to the new QUASR website!
- QuickNotes
- Transition to HR PeopleSoft
New Finance Administration System Launched
Last week, Queen's launched Release 1 of its new Finance Administration system. On December 1st, more than 100 authorized users logged onto the system for the first time. This major milestone caps months of intense activity to plan, design, configure, convert, test, train and cutover to the new system. Much work remains to complete the implementation, but during its first day of use, Queen's staff:
- produced the first cheques on the new system;
- entered the first journal entries; and
- processed the first purchase requisition, issued the purchase order via email to the supplier (who delivered the product the next day), and used the new system to receive the order.
As expected, the Support Centre was busy with initial calls for help related to gaining secure access to the system, mapping new account codes and using revised forms. Finetuning also included more frequent refreshes of account information to the salary requisition system.
QUASR Program Director Jim Carse described the launch as "a multi-generational leap in terms of technology and process." In a memo to staff, he noted: "On its own, this is a sizeable feat. Taking the milestone in the context of enabling future phases of QUASR in Research, Human Resources and Student administrative applications makes this first milestone extra special."