UIS Highly Active at Oracle Alliance 2015 Conference – Rana Silver and John Hanna

UIS is a strategic partner to Oracle, CU’s provider for our enterprise application systems like the portal, student, human resources and finance systems. As such, our staff are highly skilled in all aspects of implementing Oracle PeopleSoft solutions and are thus offering several presentations at Oracle’s Alliance conference March 15-18, 2015.

This week, we look at UIS’s offerings within Alliance’s Student Records and Student Financials tracks. According to Alliance, Student Records track sessions “share information about how students, staff and faculty access and update their information. Most sessions focus on how institutions set up their information system to best support student services, manage institutional records, and provide accurate reports.” Student Financials track sessions offer “robust presentations on the setup and use of all aspects of the SF functionality” to “a vibrant community of bursar, financial and technical professionals.” 

Rana Silver, Student Records Application Manager, is presenting a session on Oracle’s Campus Mobile App entitled Well shut my mouth...CU has gone mobile!. The session’s goal is to provide an overview of the app and the interfaces needed to support its implementation. CU introduced the mobile app with UCCS2Go for UCCS’s fall, 2014 semester and is currently partnering with CU-Boulder and CU Denver to implement mobile capabilities at these campuses.  

John Hanna, Student Financials Application Manager, is presenting a session focused on CU’s transition from Oracle’s Campus Solutions payment plan functionality to their Gold Partner Nelnet Business Solutions’ more robust payment plan offering. Entitled Even a coal miner's daughter can pay for college - Creating payment options w/ NBS payment plans, this session details the decision-making process leading to the switch and presents the application’s implementation process and user experience. John is a member of Oracle’s Higher Education User Group‘s (HEUG) Student Financials Product Advisory Group (PAG), serving in the capacity of Assistant Track Chair.¹ In this role, he “works with the Chair, attending audio-conferences and planning meetings – usually monthly calls –assists the Chair as needed in editing copy and miscellaneous activities.”   

In the weeks leading up to the conference, check back for updates on the many presentations UIS is offering. Want to see the remaining University of Colorado presentations or the entire Alliance 2015 Agenda? Search the Agenda.
 

¹ For more information about Oracle’s HEUG, refer to CU Connections article CU has a strong presence in Oracle’s Higher Education User Group.