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Triage, IT Style

November 1, 2002
By James Hutchinson

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	In this article
	Introduction
	Getting Ready for the Big Date
	No Shining Examples
	A Whole New World
	Children's IT Makes Friends on the Floors
	20/20 Hindsight
	Next Steps

Hardware:

• Divide Windows NT ERP production environment into two parts: an HR production server and a finance production server.
Status: In progress

• Install Cisco network infrastructure.
Status: Early 2003

Software:

• Plan change in time sheet module (Time and Labor); Kronos is a possible replacement for the PeopleSoft module.

Status: Being evaluated

• Phase 1 of the PeopleSoft ERP rollout was "plain vanilla." The following modules will be part of Phase 2:

eBenefits online open-enrollment module lets employees select health care, retirement plans and other benefits

eProfile module lets employees maintain their own profiles

Budget module for hospitalwide integrated budgeting, a general line-of-business tool that will let admins interact with the financial system without gaining full access to all financial data (requires new hardware and software)

Grant administration module to manage research grant requests and expenditures

eProcurement online

purchase requisition module for internal and external procurement.

Status: Rollout begins in December.