Project Brief

Introduction

Staff, Students and Visitors to the University currently claim their incurred business expenses via an on-line application known locally as eExpenses.  This application was supplied by ABS as an add-on module for eFinancials and is officially named EEM (Employee Expense Management).

ABS have announced that they are withdrawing eExpenses as a supported product and so FInance are now seeking a replacement.

The new application needs to provide core functionality similar that provided by eExpenses and also to address some requirements that eExpenses did not address but that are key to the effective and efficient management of expenses.

The new application will be EASE protected and will draw from eAuthorisations and eFIn to validate data.  The development of this new application will also require changes to the existing MyEd portal, WebFirst and Business Objects to maintain the current access channel and reporting. eAuthorisations will require new functionality for the maintenance of users.

The diagram below shows the key systems that will be involved in the development.  The systems that require changes to be made have been highlighted for emphasis.