The Budget Tracking System (BTS) supports the College of Humanities and Social Sciences (CHSS). Functionally, the application has the following features and supports the following business processes:

Click here to access the Budget Tracking System.

Major Functions:

• LDAP integration/authentication. There's a multi-tiered security scheme in place that allows system, page, and field level authorizations on a per-user basis by organization.
• People, position, organization maintenance
• Full reporting and data analysis through internally generated PHP reports, Discoverer, TOAD, downloads to Excel, etc.
• Supports hiring Graduate Assistants, Graduate Lecturers, and Adjuncts so that the Banner EA process does not have to be used
• Teaching Load
• Faculty Rosters for budget analysis
• Raise Review (development finished, users are testing now)
• system activity logs

Support Team:

• Leslie Dyre, Director, Finance and HR, CHSS
• Karina Mizrahi, Senior Budget Analyst, CHSS
• Laura Humphreys, Budget Analyst, CHSS
• John Creuziger, Web Developer, CHSS/HR
• Others as needed

Project documents to date include:

Development Documents:

• A Functional and Process Definition of the original application that has been replaced by BTS.
• A COTS Issues paper (MS Word or pdf formats).
• An Architecture that provides the foundation for a replacement application. Also included are project risks and assumptions. The architecture was reviewed and approved by the development team in March 2005.
• A Project Plan. The Project Plan was reviewed May 26, 2005. Check back for periodic updates.
• A Specification that describes the project plan and development issues in detail.
• A preliminary Internal Design Document
• Raise Review Specification
• Teaching Load Specification, Nov 12, 2007

Production Documents:

• User and training guides explain the business processes and cycles that the application supports
• The Entity Relationship diagram illustrates the database design
• The Internal Design Document explains how the system works

News & Updates

• Posted 11.12.07 -- Raise Review and Teaching Load specifications. See above