Managing Information Technology

is to protect the institution’s interest, and they found it hard to see that giving up their ownership rights to code their peop ...

Case Study III-4 • The Kuali Financial System: An Open-Source Project 459 large, complex financial systems when all the develope ...

versions of Kuali that provide value for installation or integra- tion beyond the basic Kuali software. Affiliates may also offe ...

Case Study III-4 • The Kuali Financial System: An Open-Source Project 461 includes high-level standards on methodology and syste ...

business rules of the enterprise. It may support mul- tiple Presentation tiers. The Persistence layer is the data repository for ...

Case Study III-4 • The Kuali Financial System: An Open-Source Project 463 call since we were cutting scope and some schools were ...

built using a tool called UNIFACE. At the time the FIS was developed, UNIFACE was a very advanced development tool. However, the ...

Case Study III-4 • The Kuali Financial System: An Open-Source Project 465 Meeting deadlines builds credibility with the users, a ...

what they expected from me. This was also true for the Development Managers in working both with me and with their development t ...

Case Study III-4 • The Kuali Financial System: An Open-Source Project 467 process, and enough institutions have joined to fund t ...

468 CASE STUDY III-5 NIBCO’s “Big Bang”: An SAP Implementation December 30, 1997, was the “Go-Live” date at NIBCO, Inc., a priva ...

CASE STUDY III-5NIBCO’s “Big Bang”: An SAP Implementation EXHIBIT 1 NIBCO’s Big Bang Timeline ability to have common systems wi ...

470 Part III • Acquiring Information Systems NIBCON ORBIT FACTORYLABOR Rate Master Quotes Syntra Mfg Sch Rvw LIFO Inv Value Recv ...

Case Study III-5 • NIBCO’s “Big Bang”: An SAP Implementation 471 The ERP Selection Team Beutler set up a cross-functional team t ...

472 Part III • Acquiring Information Systems One of the things we did was a lot of benchmarking... and one of the things we kept ...

Case Study III-5 • NIBCO’s “Big Bang”: An SAP Implementation 473 Sales Distribution Team Business Review Role Power User Role Bu ...

474 Part III • Acquiring Information Systems Business systems analystroles were filled by persons with strong technical credent ...

Case Study III-5 • NIBCO’s “Big Bang”: An SAP Implementation 475 occasionally brought in throughout the project—including BASIS ...

476 Part III • Acquiring Information Systems At one end of the TIGER den was a room with soft couches and chairs designed to fac ...

Case Study III-5 • NIBCO’s “Big Bang”: An SAP Implementation 477 EXHIBIT 5 Criteria for Incentive Pay where the project was goin ...