Selection and Implementation of 3rd Party Application Systems
The goal of the App Team is to enable university staff and students through the use of large scale computer application systems. For several years Banner has been the campus wide Enterprise Resource Planning system (ERP) that is used for nearly all business processes at SPU. The use of an ERP system provides us with the enormous benefit of having all university data synchronized in one unified system making it easier to access information and support the infrastructure. While this is a tremendous benefit to the organization, its cost is limited extensibility and customization that often gives rise to the demand for 3rd party applications to better serve specific business needs.
Often times 3rd Party systems are necessary for business operations; the App Team currently supports nearly a dozen such systems. However the selection and implementation of these applications is a critically important task and many questions must be answered for before the purchase of any new system:
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