4/23/13: Due to upcoming changes in University travel policy, this project is now on hold. Updates will be provided as we get more information..
3/26/13: The e-form for Travel Authorizations is still in progress, and the Business Services team continues to test the workflow. We are working through some policy decisions with the Vice Presidents to determine the proper approval path. With agreement from the team and project sponsor, the decision has been made to change the go-live date to 4/25/13 pending agreement from the Vice Presidents.
2/25/13: TheTravel team is currently testing both the e-forms and the workflow. They are also preparing communications and instructions for the campus in preparation for the March go-live.
1/28/13: The e-form for Travel Authorizations is still in progress, and the Business Services team continues to test the workflow. With agreement from the project sponsor, the decision has been made to change the go-live date to 3/28/13. Demonstrations, training, and information will be available to campus in March,
12/21/12: Business Services staff are testing their workflow internally and will continue testing through January. We are finalizing the e-form that will be used to submit travel authorization requests. Demonstrations, training, and information will be available to campus in February, and the new Travel Authorization workflow is scheduled to go live 2/20/13.
11/27/12: The Nolij programmers have demonstrated the workflow to a limited group of Business Services staff, and an additional demonstration is planned for the rest of the staff. We are still working on the e-form portion of the project; while that process is being completed, the team will begin testing, training and finalizing plans for moving the workflow into production. Campus-wide demonstrations will be conducted once the entire process is finalized.
10/30/12: The Travel team is still working on building the workflow in Nolij. A demonstration will be conducted for the team during the next few weeks.
9/24/12: The Travel team is finalizing their efficiency goals. We have completed our workflow planning and begun building the workflow in Nolij. Workflow building and forms planning will continue over the next few weeks.
8/27/12: Workflow planning will begin next week when Nolij consultants are on site. The remainder of the project timeline will be established during the next few weeks.
8/6/12: Work has begun on defining roles and document types, and we will build out the initial Nolij environment this month. Nolij consultants will be onsite at the beginning of September to begin documenting existing and future processes and start building the workflow.
5/8/12: Project approved and scheduled to start 7/16/12 if Nolij consultants can assist with the project. Otherwise, resource constraints will push the project start date out to January 2013.