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CIO Update for the Week of May 30

I hope that you had a good (if not wet) Memorial Day weekend. In looking at the calendar for the week of May 30th, the following items of general interest are worth commenting on:

News

New

  • The ServiceNow Steering Committee meets on Wednesday.

  • The Digital COE Committee meets on Thursday.

Projects

New

  • Project Helios

    • This week marked the end of the Architect phase and completion of the Business Process Workbooks and fit / gap analysis deliverables.
    • Configuration of our first prototype (Prototype 1) continues.
    • The data conversion team reached the 50% mark of loading data needed for Prototype 1. Thank you to all member data conversion teams!
    • The integrations team continued to work on integration design documents.
    • Retiring our current HR / Payroll tools:
      • The “Payroll Accounting Link” team put the finishing touches on the Workday to FAMIS link design. The team will begin working against summer and fall milestones next week.
      • Analysis continued on impacts to SSO applications and the Data Warehouse.

SCIO Trips/Visits

  • Dallas (May 31 – June 2)