January 2013
The Administrative Systems eNews is a monthly electronic newsletter for users of Harvard's financial, human resources, and reporting systems.
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Journal Batch Totals Issue with Oracle ADI
The Oracle Team has identified a few instances where the imported General Ledger journal batch totals did not match with the ADI spreadsheet. The team is working with Oracle Support on the issue as a top priority. In the mean time, users should diligently check the lines and amounts in their Journal Import Execution Report (within the General Ledger go to the menu bar > View > Requests > Find > View Output for the request ID) to make sure the uploaded journal is as desired and correct as needed. Please contact the HUIT Support Center at 617-496-2001, or via email with any questions.
Tags: Oracle, General Ledger
Human Resources Reporting News - January 2013
Report Enhancements
HREMREE036 - Individual - Emergency Contacts
HREMRDP037 - Departmental - Emergency Contacts
Both the Individual and Departmental Emergency Contact reports now include the Employee's work, home and cell phones in both the PDF and Excel outputs.
If you have any questions or concerns, please contact the HUIT Helpdesk at 496-2001 or dls@harvard.edu.
Thank you,
Human Resources Analytics and Reporting
Tag: CREW
Upcoming Releases
FINDINI Release Schedule
A software release to the Oracle Financial Applications, known as a "FINDINI release", is done every two to four months. Each upgrade introduces needed bug fixes, enhancements, and technical upgrades into Harvard's financial systems. Generally, releases are performed on weekends to assure maximum availability during the business week. Most outages occur from 6 pm Friday evening-6 am Monday morning.
The next FINDINI is tentatively scheduled for the weekend of March 22-25, 2013. Details will be included in an upcoming e-News.
The Oracle Financial Applications are:
CREW FIN and HR Releases
The Common Reporting Environment for the Warehouse (CREW) is a reporting system that draws data from a variety of sources which are updated on a nightly basis. Users can submit report requests for immediate processing or schedule reports to automatically run on a recurring basis. Types of FIN CREW reports include financial, budget, receivables, grants management, and sponsored reports. Types of HR CREW reports include HR operational, affirmative action, benefits, compensation, costing, earnings, job, pension, service credit, security and training reports.
The next CREW FIN release is tentatively scheduled for March 22-25, 2013. Details will be included in an upcoming e-News.
HR (PeopleSoft) and CREW HR Release 35
The next PeopleSoft Release (HR 35) is tentatively scheduled for May 17-20, 2013. Details will be included in an upcoming e-News.
The CREW HR 35.0 Release is tentatively scheduled for May 17-20, 2013. Details will be included in an upcoming e-News.
CREW Reports
In addition to the CREW Financial and CREW HR releases which correspond with the FINDINI and HR releases listed above, changes and enhancements to new and existing CREW reports are also released the 3rd weekend of each month.
| Release Number | Dates | Notes |
| 9.01 | 1/18/13 |
Sponsored Systems Releases
- GMAS release (1_33) was deployed over the weekend of December 17, 2012. Please see last month's e-News for more information.
HUBS Releases
The Harvard University Budgeting Sytems (HUBS) is a set of web-based Oracle Hyperion Planning applications used for budget data entry, estimates, annotations, reporting, and submission associated with the annual budget and planning cycles.
HUBS 2.2 was released November 5, 2012. Please see the October 2012 e-News for more information.
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The Center for Workplace Development publishes this electronic newsletter for users of Harvard University's financial, HR, and reporting systems, policies, and procedures. The e-News is generally published on or around the 15th of each month.
It contains:
- updates on projects underway to build or improve University administrative systems;
- information about new University policies, procedures, and forms;
- reminders about upcoming deadlines and cut-over dates;
- tips and tricks for working more easily or productively.
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