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Report on IVY+ Administrative Computing Conference
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert Ferrara)
Mon May 22 10:23:50 2000
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Hello,=20
These are some highlights from the annual IVY+ Administrative Computing
Conference that Theresa Regan, Tim McGovern, and I attended from May 8th=
through
the morning of May 10th. All IVY+ universities were represented by some=
thirty
people at this event, hosted this time by Brown University in Newport, Rhode
Island. All are involved in good projects, but I still come away from this
conference being grateful for being at MIT. IMHO, our organizational and
technical issues are just not as severe as those of our peers. Thanks to=
good
staff work, we have a fine infrastructure and a comparatively up-to-date
application portfolio. It should also be mentioned that there was a lot of
support, and interest in, MIT=92s position regarding the Microsoft=
implementation
of Kerberos, especially from Helen Mohrmann of Cornell and Bill Barry of
Dartmouth. Here are other highlights:=20
=B7 MIT will be hosting the half-day IVY+ session at EDUCAUSE 2000 in
Nashville. This will occur October 8th, the Tuesday before the conference=
proper
opens. We were scheduled to host in 2001, but swapped with Penn because=
their
key people are not available at EDUCAUSE. There will be a good MIT=
contingent.
Besides any other usual attendees, Greg Anderson, Lorraine Rappaport and I=
were
just notified that our =93E-commerce at MIT=94 paper was accepted. Deb=
Bowser is
already working on arrangements.=20
=B7 Here=92s a gem for our work on metrics - =93Be careful not to make=
the
measurable important, instead make the important measurable=94.
=B7 Here are some roundtable highlights. There is a good deal of=
senior
level turnover at many of our peers- especially Brown, Stanford, Cornell.=20
1. Princeton: Dave Koehler is a candidate for the now vacant CIO job.
They=92ve reportedly done a very good job on Project Management support. A=
sample
of their materials will be received here soon. Peoplesoft HR planned for=
next
year. Good experience with Hexaware, an Indian subcontractor. ADSM usage big
and growing.=20
2. Penn: Facilities outsourced, now being brought back in house. Alumni=
I/T
now part of regular IT organization. Very active in e-commerce, working with
TPN for on-line ordering and catalogs.
3. Stanford: Has merged Alumni I/T back in also.=20
4. Duke: High level system integration disbanded after rollouts. SAP=
group
turned into a department (like MIT), as has Peoplsoft student system group.
Planning to move to SAP budgeting =93when right=94, Pillar software is=
interim.
Lots of work in Directory areas, and in Haht software for SAP web front=
ends.
Also looking at non-SAP B-to-B offerings.=20
5. Dartmouth: The venerable, historic Dartmouth time-sharing system is
retired (Hey, I learned on it!). Corporate Time rollout going well. Oracle
HR/Payroll rollout planned for spring, 2001. 90 re cent of desktops are=
still
Macs.=20
6. Cornell: Major turnover. Move to Corporate Time also going well.=
Working
on Certifying Authority. Big LDAP project.=20
7. Columbia: New mainframe, causing a big jump in associated software
costs.=20
8. Harvard: (finally represented by ADAPT HR project director). Dan
Moriarity from med school, is now Assistant Provost and CIO, and all central=
IT
groups will report to him. IT Visiting Committee has in fact visited. Travel
system a disaster.
9. Brown: Completing intensive planning effort. Major budget infusions
needed. Published bulk e-mail policy. Held Career Day for employees.
10. Chicago: Reorganization and consolidation underway. Greg Jackson to lead=
IT
strategy Group. Desperately need to replace Pick-based student system. Have
published new admin computing principles. Working on a common imaging=
system.
Forming a data administration function.=20
=B7 In addition to the extensive Roundtable, there are many sessions=
of an
hour or more each on topics requested a few weeks in advance. The person who
requests the topic is the facilitator for the session, which usually lasts=
an
hour or more. My request, on Project Accounting, happened to come first. Tim
and I have several flip charts filled with group input. Several were aware=
of
the new accounting rules on capitalization of I/T projects. No one has yet
implemented an extensive scheme. Most felt it was necessary to do accounting
generally, not just perhaps a half dozen large projects over the threshold. =
=20
=B7 Todd Langille of Dartmouth led the session on E-commerce. Everyone=
is
doing lots of procurement card activity as is MIT. Dartmouth is using
Paymentech as their clearing vendor. No one has anything close to ECAT2, but
Penn is getting ready to pilot a on-line multi-vendor catalog with TPN.=20
=B7 Dave Koehler led a session on application integration, where the
distinction was made between platform, data, component, application,=
process,
and B2B integration. Different products meet any one or rarely two of these
forms of integration.=20
=B7 In the final session on Authentication, I shared Jim Repa=92s and=
the APIT
material on Roles database and invited people to contact him directly. No=
one
yet seems to have anything like a operational Roles equivalent, but all
appreciated the clean data model behind it.=20
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<font face=3D"Arial, Helvetica">Hello, <br>
<br>
These are some highlights from the annual IVY+ Administrative Computing
Conference that Theresa Regan, Tim McGovern, and I attended from May
8</font><font size=3D1><sup>th</font></sup><font size=3D3> through the
morning of May 10</font><font size=3D1><sup>th</font></sup><font size=3D3>.
All IVY+ universities were represented by some thirty people at this
event, hosted this time by Brown University in Newport, Rhode Island. All
are involved in good projects, but I still come away from this conference
being grateful for being at MIT. IMHO, our organizational and technical
issues are just not as severe as those of our peers. Thanks to good staff
work, we have a fine infrastructure and a comparatively up-to-date
application portfolio. It should also be mentioned that there was a
lot of support, and interest in, MIT=92s position regarding the Microsoft
implementation of Kerberos, especially from Helen Mohrmann of Cornell and
Bill Barry of Dartmouth. Here are other highlights: <br>
<br>
</font><font face=3D"Symbol"=
size=3D4>=B7<x-tab> </x-tab></font=
><font face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>MIT
will be hosting the half-day IVY+ session at EDUCAUSE 2000 in Nashville.
This will occur October
8</font><font size=3D1><sup>th</font></sup><font size=3D3>, the Tuesday
before the conference proper opens. We were scheduled to host in 2001,
but swapped with Penn because their key people are not available at
EDUCAUSE. There will be a good MIT contingent. Besides any other usual
attendees, Greg Anderson, Lorraine Rappaport and I were just notified
that our =93E-commerce at MIT=94 paper was accepted. Deb Bowser is already
working on arrangements. <br>
</font><font face=3D"Symbol"=
size=3D4>=B7<x-tab> </x-tab></font=
><font face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Here=92s
a gem for our work on metrics - =93Be careful not to make the measurable
important, instead make the important measurable=94.<br>
</font><font face=3D"Symbol"=
size=3D4>=B7<x-tab> </x-tab></font=
><font face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Here
are some roundtable highlights. There is a good deal of senior level
turnover at many of our peers- especially Brown, Stanford, Cornell.=20
<br>
</font><font face=3D"Times New Roman, Times"=
size=3D4>1.<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font=
face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Princeton:
Dave Koehler is a candidate for the now vacant CIO job. They=92ve
reportedly done a very good job on Project Management support. A sample
of their materials will be received here soon. Peoplesoft HR planned for
next year. Good experience with Hexaware, an Indian subcontractor. ADSM
usage big and growing. <br>
</font><font face=3D"Times New Roman, Times"=
size=3D4>2.<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font=
face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Penn:
Facilities outsourced, now being brought back in house. Alumni I/T now
part of regular IT organization. Very active in e-commerce, working with
TPN for on-line ordering and catalogs.<br>
</font><font face=3D"Times New Roman, Times"=
size=3D4>3.<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font=
face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Stanford:
Has merged Alumni I/T back in also. <br>
</font><font face=3D"Times New Roman, Times"=
size=3D4>4.<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font=
face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Duke:
High level system integration disbanded after rollouts. SAP group turned
into a department (like MIT), as has Peoplsoft student system group.
Planning to move to SAP budgeting =93when right=94, Pillar software is
interim. Lots of work in Directory areas, and in Haht software for SAP
web front ends. Also looking at non-SAP B-to-B offerings. <br>
</font><font face=3D"Times New Roman, Times"=
size=3D4>5.<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font=
face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Dartmouth:
The venerable, historic Dartmouth time-sharing system is retired (Hey, I
learned on it!). Corporate Time rollout going well. Oracle HR/Payroll
rollout planned for spring, 2001. 90 re cent of desktops are still Macs.
<br>
</font><font face=3D"Times New Roman, Times"=
size=3D4>6.<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font=
face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Cornell:
Major turnover. Move to Corporate Time also going well. Working on
Certifying Authority. Big LDAP project. <br>
</font><font face=3D"Times New Roman, Times"=
size=3D4>7.<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font=
face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Columbia:
New mainframe, causing a big jump in associated software costs. <br>
</font><font face=3D"Times New Roman, Times"=
size=3D4>8.<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font=
face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Harvard:
(finally represented by ADAPT HR project director). Dan Moriarity from
med school, is now Assistant Provost and CIO, and all central IT groups
will report to him. IT Visiting Committee has in fact visited. Travel
system a disaster.<br>
</font><font face=3D"Times New Roman, Times"=
size=3D4>9.<x-tab> </x-tab></font><font=
face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Brown:
Completing intensive planning effort. Major budget infusions needed.
Published bulk e-mail policy. Held Career Day for employees.<br>
</font><font face=3D"Times New Roman, Times" size=3D4>10.
</font><font face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Chicago: Reorganization and
consolidation underway. Greg Jackson to lead IT strategy Group.
Desperately need to replace Pick-based student system. Have published new
admin computing principles. Working on a common imaging system. Forming a
data administration function. <br>
</font><font face=3D"Symbol"=
size=3D4>=B7<x-tab> </x-tab></font=
><font face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>In
addition to the extensive Roundtable, there are many sessions of an hour
or more each on topics requested a few weeks in advance. The person who
requests the topic is the facilitator for the session, which usually
lasts an hour or more. My request, on Project Accounting, happened to
come first. Tim and I have several flip charts filled with group input.
Several were aware of the new accounting rules on capitalization of I/T
projects. No one has yet implemented an extensive scheme. Most felt it
was necessary to do accounting generally, not just perhaps a half dozen
large projects over the threshold. <br>
</font><font face=3D"Symbol"=
size=3D4>=B7<x-tab> </x-tab></font=
><font face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Todd
Langille of Dartmouth led the session on E-commerce. Everyone is doing
lots of procurement card activity as is MIT. Dartmouth is using
Paymentech as their clearing vendor. No one has anything close to ECAT2,
but Penn is getting ready to pilot a on-line multi-vendor catalog with
TPN. <br>
</font><font face=3D"Symbol"=
size=3D4>=B7<x-tab> </x-tab></font=
><font face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>Dave
Koehler led a session on application integration, where the distinction
was made between platform, data, component, application, process, and B2B
integration. Different products meet any one or rarely two of these forms
of integration. <br>
</font><font face=3D"Symbol"=
size=3D4>=B7<x-tab> </x-tab></font=
><font face=3D"Arial, Helvetica" size=3D3>In
the final session on Authentication, I shared Jim Repa=92s and the APIT
material on Roles database and invited people to contact him directly. No
one yet seems to have anything like a operational Roles equivalent, but
all appreciated the clean data model behind it. <br>
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