Overviews and hands-on demonstrations of Hyperion, ePrint and Banner Forms for financial reporting, overviews of purchasing using HigherMarkets and a presentation on uses for P-Cards are among some of the areas to be addressed during the University-wide Project LINK Update on Monday, Oct. 17, from 3 to 5 p.m. in Woodward Lecture Hall.
The free event is open to all interested faculty, staff and students. It also will be provided to the UNM Health Sciences Center via a live web cast to Room 309 of the Basic Medical Sciences Building, and to UNM’s branch campuses via a live satellite feed. No registration is required and there will be refreshments and a question-and-answer session.
“Much aforethought has gone into the planning of this event to make it as relevant and meaningful as possible so that it will be helpful to employees who are now or will be using the Banner systems,” said Project LINK Executive Director Bonnie Young.
UNM Chief Information Officer Bill Adkins will open the program and introduce Young, who will give a brief overview of the Project LINK implementations. LINK Financial Aid Project Director Ron Martinez and members of his team will follow with a Financial Aid Self-Service demonstration.
The majority of the program will be devoted to current topics involving LINK Finance. “We have listened to concerns from campus and this is an opportunity to share the progress that we have made in addressing some of the needs of the University,” said LINK Finance Project Director Duane Arruti, who will lead the Finance presentation.
Finance topics and presenters are as follows:
--Ray Avila of Finance Systems Management will lead an overview of Hyperion and reports that are now available. His overview will be followed by Kristin Gates of the Department of Surgery, who will lead a demonstration that will describe the functionality of dashboards and provide some user “tricks and tips,” with a focus on the Operating Ledger, Grant, and Labor and Benefits Distribution reports.
--Susan Smith of Finance Management Systems will provide an ePrint demonstration that will include an overview of reports and functionality of bookmarks, with a focus of the Salary Projections Report.
--Les Foust of the Department of Internal Medicine will provide an overview of Banner system reporting through forms that will include a demonstration of query options, where to find needed information, and export capabilities.
--Julian Sandoval of Purchasing will follow with an overview of E-Commerce and speak about recent enhancements to P-Card. He will offer a demonstration of the HigherMarkets process that will include “tips, tricks and solutions to real-life situations.”
--Ivan Boyd and Danny Lee of CIRT then will provide overviews of FastInfo and the LINK Service Center, describing how employees may get “consistent, accurate and timely information” to help them do their work.
--Arruti will then talk about “What’s Next in Finance.”
--Laurie Schatzberg of the ASM then will moderate a question-and-answer session.
For updates and more information, visit the Project LINK Web site at Project Link.
Contact: Frank D. Martinez, (505) 272-7285
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