Some campus systems will go offline during upgrade

Some campus administrative computing systems will go offline for as long as 10 business days starting at noon on Friday, Feb. 8, while replacement systems are placed into service.

The affected systems will be unavailable while campus information technology staff bring online three more of the five projects collectively known as the Program Release. The three systems going into service in February are Grants, Madison Accounts Payable Purchase Order and Legacy Accounting to SFS Transition (LAST). The Effort system was brought online last November, and the Automated Travel System (ATS) will be widely introduced in the fall.

Campus staff whose work involves financial transactions can minimize the impact of the outage by completing as much transaction processing as possible before Feb. 8.

Other Program Release outage details:

The financial information that the campus obtains via WISDM over the Web will be frozen during the outage. WISDM will not change day to day, even though some transactions will feed the data mart that underlies it.
Paychecks will be handled as usual.
No vendor payments, employee reimbursements (travel expense reports) and payments to individuals will be made. Exceptions must use the Emergency Transaction (ET) process.
No journal entries (salary or nonsalary cost transfers) will be processed. Forms will be accepted, but they will queue up until SFS is back online.
All ordering mechanisms in Purchasing (purchase orders, MDS transactions, and purchasing card transactions) will be available, but the financial effect will not be seen in WISDM until SFS is back up.