Report for August 2015

AP45-020

Estates & Buildings - Finance interface requirements

Core funded

Planning - Feb 2016

Delivery - Jul 2016

 RAG Status : GREEN

AP56-015

Coldfusion upgrade for finance applications

Core funded

Planning - Sep 2015

Delivery - Mar 2016

 RAG Status : GREEN

AP56-016

eFinancials upgrade

Core funded

Planning - May 2016

Delivery - Mar 2017

 RAG Status : GREEN

AP56-017

Migrate JAMS & eTime applications

Core funded

Planning - Jan 2016

Delivery - May 2016

 RAG Status : GREEN

AP56-036

eExpenses enhancements

Core funded

Planning - Oct 2015

Delivery - Feb 2016

 RAG Status : GREEN

AP56-039

Financial documents revitalisation (Version One)

Core funded

Planning - Nov 2015

Delivery - Mar 2016

 RAG Status : GREEN

AP56-054

Finance BI improvement

Core funded

Planning - May 2016

Delivery - Jan 2017

 RAG Status : GREEN

TBC

Strategic review of financial systems

Sponsor funded

Planning - tbc

Delivery - tbc

 RAG Status : GREEN

FIN081 (AP12-024)

Document Management for Finance Applications

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

(TBC)

RAG Status : SUSPENDED

Project is currently suspended as insufficient budget to re-open

FIN086 (AP23-004)

ePay Reconciliation

Category:  Compliance

Milestones

 RAG Status: GREEN

Report by Jill Nicoll for August 2015

Achievements in last period

• Build sign-off confirmed
• System deployed to Test
• Integration sign-off confirmed
• Released for UAT testing

Issues

• The project plan assumes that the bookings in place for the System Designer/Developer will not be lost to Priority 1 projects.
• It is very unlikely that the Designer/Developer's project booking will be able to be extended, since she is scheduled to move on to Priority 1 projects.

Next Steps

• Confirm Acceptance sign-off
• Deploy to Live

FIN101 (AP23-003)

SSO/Launchpad Phase 2

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

14-09-15  Deployment Review

19-09-15  Close

FIN102 (In-year)

eExpenses Phase 2

Category: Discretionary (Sponsor Funded)

Milestones

RAG Status : GREEN

Report by Dawn Nicholls for August 2015

 Achievements this period

• eExpenses new functionality was deployed to live and the project entered its maintenance period
• A number of additional small enhancements and minor bug fixes were released during this period.  Details are documented on the maintenance iteration page
• Closure meeting held to gather information for completion report

Issues

• Due to resource conflicts from higher priority CSG projects, the project has not utilised all of the allocated resource budget.  The project is unable to extend as the developers are resourced to other projects so the surplus days (20 days) have been returned to the Finance programme.

Next steps

• Final manual live deployment of related eAuthorisations/WebFirst changes
• Project closure

Further details on project activities can be seen in the Project Journal

FIN104 (AP45-018)

Supporting scan & destroy policy using Serengeti

Category: Compliance

Milestones

(TBC)

RAG Status : SUSPENDED

FIN106 (In-year)

Albacs Replacement

Category: Compliance

Milestones

(to be agreed)

RAG Status : GREEN

FIN108 (AP56-042)

Essential Enhancements

Category: Discretionary

Milestones

Planning - Sep 2015

Delivery - Jun 2016

RAG Status : GREEN

Report by Jill Nicoll for August 2015

Achievements in last period

• Project website created
• Initial draft of Project Brief created
• Project initiation request submitted

Issues

• Although the project has not yet officially started, WPM has sought to progress work on the FPM upgrade.
  • Orignally proposed as a minor upgrade, it was subsequently revealed that a Paperclip and eProcurement upgrade would also be required.
  • WPM has been asked to provide release notes, to include a confirmed list of all associated required upgrades.  This has not yet been provided.
  • IS Applications recommend that this work be deferred, and be considered - and prioritised - along with the other enhancements proposed for the project.

Next Steps

• Set up new project
• Meet with Project Sponsors, Business Leads, and IS Applications team leaders, to review, finalise, and approve Project Brief

FIN105 (AP45-019)

Financial reporting changes for FRS102

David Watters

Category: Compliance

Project closed 07/09/2015

Link to completion report https://www.projects.ed.ac.uk/project/fin105/completion_report