CSU Awards PeopleSoft Financials Consolidation Feasibility Study contract to Syllogize, Inc.
Syllogize, Inc. is pleased to announce an engagement with the California State University, Office of the Chancellor. The purpose of the project is an assessment of feasibility as well as the cost and benefits of combining the twenty-one campus finance databases into one or more sets of production, test and training databases.
Syllogize, Inc. has been awarded Califonia State University Office of The Chancellor's Finance PeopleSoft Database Consolidation Assessment, RFP41007R.
The feasibility study encompasses an assessment of CSU’s current implementation of its PeopleSoft Finance application business model and the completing a feasibility study and cost benefit analysis of the potential consolidation of the twenty-one campus finance databases into a shared database/application environment for both production and non-production.
The Finance Application Business Model Assessment includes:
- Review and assess CSU campus business practices to determine degree of existing commonality or variances.
- Identify areas where standardization would be required to enable and facilitate data base consolidation.
- Review technical aspects, rules, policies and procedures of operating within the CMS framework.
Syllogize, Inc. will also conduct a feasibility study of the potential consolidation of campus Finance application data into a shared data base/application environment. Assessment includes :
- Analyze CSU’s current Finance database implementation strategy.
- Identify business and technical challenges and risks associated with consolidating individual campus databases into a shared data base/application environment.
- Identify actions that CSU can take to mitigate challenges and risks associated with the data base consolidation effort. This analysis will include review of campus business operations and identification of similarities or differences in business practices across the campuses that would affect use of a shared environment.
- Assess the feasibility of successfully transitioning to a shared data base environment and the viability of an implementation/consolidation strategy and timetable, so it is feasible to have consolidation plans for the system and individual campuses.
- Assess impact to CMS Central and campus technical support requirements.
- Assess impact to support requirements for multiple campus implementations and/or upgrades.
- Assess impact to current architecture and design to support a consolidated database implementation strategy
- Assess impact to current campus application, implementation and upgrade strategies.
- Assess impact to current campus data warehouse implementations as well as to the systemwide data warehouse development activities.
