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Core Enterprise Systems (CES)

Michael McCabe is Director of Core Enterprise Systems. This department is charged with the maintenance, enhancement, integrity, and security of all centralized, mission critical business applications required to manage the University's assets including finance, human resources, and students. The Department must work closely with the owners of the various information systems to provide required support as well as extend and enhance functionality.

The role of the Director is to provide supervision, management and technical expertise in order to create an environment where transactions can be easily and efficiently processed with resultant management and decision support information provided for departmental and senior University officers. The Director is also responsible to ensure that cross system integration processes are in place and that technical problems associated with applications are quickly resolved.

Functionally organized "Groups" within the Department include:

• Financial Information System Group
  The goal of this Group is to work closely with the owner of core Financial Information applications (the Comptroller) to achieve the overall financial information goals of the University. The Financial system includes the following applications:
  1. General Ledger
  2. Budget
  3. Accounts Payable
  4. Accounts Receivable including Student Accounts
  5. Purchasing
  6. Fixed Assets
  7. Investment Management
  8. Grant Management
  9. Research Accounting
  10. Cash Receipts
• Human Resources Information System Group
  The goal of this group is to work with the owners of the core Human Resources Information (including Payroll) applications (the Director of Personnel and the Comptroller) to achieve the overall human resource information goals of the University. The Human Resource/Payroll system includes the following areas:
  1. Employment (Applicant Tracking, Biographical Data, Affirmative Action and EEO reporting)
  2. Compensation (Training, Compensation Management, Performance Appraisal)
  3. Position Control
  4. Payroll (Tax Reporting, Payroll Processing, Time and Attendance, Wage Attachment)
  5. Employee Benefits (Benefit Administration and Leave Accrual)
  6. Human Resource Information Processing (OSHA, Health and Safety Tracking)
  7. Communications Management
• Student Information System Group
  The goal of this group is to work closely with the owners of the core Student Information applications (the Director of SRC and the Dean of Enrollment Management) to achieve the overall goals of the University. Applications supported by this group include:
  1. Course Catalog
  2. Class Scheduling/Term Master Schedule
  3. People Demographics/Biographics
  4. Registration
  5. Student advising
  6. Academic Records
  7. Transfer Articulations
  8. Academic History
  9. Degree Tracking
  10. Faculty Load
  11. Residential Living Housing System
  12. Recruiting/Prospect Management
  13. Admissions
  14. Financial Aid
  15. Career Management
  16. Co-Opertive education
• Database Information and Warehousing Group
  The goal of this group is to maintain the integrity and structure of the core administrative databases, to design and implement new database structures associated with new or extended functionality, to ensure the security of the administrative database structures, to design and implement various data warehouses and to work closely with the other functional groups to achieve the overall goals of the University.