IT Strategic Plan Refresh for 2008 (pdf)
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Part 1: Establish ERP governance that involves all business sponsors and plan appropriately for the university’s converging IT environment: the integration of the Student Information System (SIS) with the existing Finance, Grants, and Human Resources systems, and possibly OSU:pro.

Part 2: Continue developing an enterprise data warehouse to maximize the use of currently available central data for reporting and planning.

Part 3: Determine where the university should be going over the next several years in the area of Web 2.0 technologies like blogs, wikis, and collaboration and messaging tools.

Repackage the Student Information System (SIS) initiative into an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) strategic initiative that encompasses SIS, Finance, Grants, and Human Resources (HR), to better capture the integrated IT environment.

Plan for the parallel piece of ERP governance to ensure that all the business sponsors are heard and everyone is involved in the decisions.

Plan for infrastructure support and business processes for an integrated ERP, which makes a difference in how OIT supports them; continue a self assessment of OIT.

As a part of ERP planning, give faculty and staff the opportunity to be involved in early trials and provide input. Provide status reports to inform faculty and staff of progress on meeting timelines, testing, rolling out systems, and user integration.

Continue following the SIS timeline of rollouts, or waves: the initial go-live of admissions processes in May 2008, and tracking the class of 2009 through recruiting, application, and admission processes through May 2009.

Continue SIS campuswide awareness efforts, including impact sessions and town meetings.

Continue work on the SIS portal to support SIS and the HR system.

Provide centralized services for faculty and students in the area of security, privacy, and FERPA to avoid their use of third-party services. If there is no centralized service, provide them guidance regarding their rights in working with third party vendors.

Update the data warehouse and operational data store (ODS) strategic plan, to address changing priorities and resources.

Determine the most effective way to transition from data storage to information delivery.

Ensure the integrity of the data and information in the data warehouse.

Raise awareness of the big success of the faculty analytics data mart.

Determine how much historical data should be stored in the warehouse.

Complete the interface for employee analytics.

Continue the small project called general ledger (GL) analytics so regular users do not have to keep pulling information together. Identify important pockets of information and tools, such as dashboards, to reduce digging through data.

Encourage user feedback on problem areas and bad data, as well as data requests, to determine what is important to users.

Publicize the data warehouse in support of President Gee’s stated intent to demonstrate to Ohio’s legislature, governor, and citizens that Ohio State is fulfilling its charge as a land grant institution and is the state university for Ohio.

Develop an infrastructure that enables the use of technologies such as blogs, wikis, and other collaboration and messaging tools.