PeopleSoft and Lee College:
The Relationship Begins . . .

Dr. Carolyn A. Lightfoot Director, Technology, Research & Planning

With only one programmer maintaining the 1980s-era, batch COBOL system and the college requiring more user-friendly reporting capabilities, Lee College decided to embarked upon a search beginning in 1994 for an integrated financial and student records system. The college was looking for a system that would streamline the flow of information (financial, HR, student administration) throughout the college. Finally, on June 20, 2000, the President and Board of Regents decided upon PeopleSoft as the software that will provide a unified solution to help manage all student administration, financial accounting, payroll and human resource processes.

The official start of the project began on July 10, 2000 when the college's functional and technical teams met with the PeopleSoft consultants to discuss the rapid implementation process. For those of you who have not heard, the PeopleSoft database management system will replace the Student Records/Registration system and Bi-Tech Financial/General Ledger system. PeopleSoft is a client-server, graphical user interface (GUI) distributed system that allows users to quickly access and develop strategic reports from student administration, human resources and financial accounting data.

Eventually, as the relationship grows, PeopleSoft will interact with our entire Lee College community through the Web-students can access their records and registrations, and faculty can connect with the human resources and student systems via the web and administrators can track enrollments, update information quickly and accurately and provide up-to-date statistical analysis. This software will provide more functionality than ever before to each academic and technical-vocational division as well as to administrative offices.

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