Word: adapters
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Careful readers of "Faculty Blasts $112M Computer Systems" on Project ADAPT (News, March 21) should be skeptical about The Crimson's reporting...
...promised us that the implementation of these systems would be easy, and it certainly hasn't been. One component of ADAPT, the travel reimbursement system, provides unacceptable performance, and a major redesign is underway. But most of the systems perform reasonably well, and we are learning to use their powerful features more effectively as time goes...
...laughable front-page graph, for example, purports to compare Project ADAPT's budget to that of Harvard's faculties. A reader glancing at the graph might conclude that we are spending more each year on ADAPT than on the Law School. This is false. In truth, the graph showed total spending for the multi-year Project ADAPT in one bar, next to separate bars for the annual spending of each of the faculties...
...University had no choice but to carry out Project ADAPT. The old financial systems were obsolete and unrepairable; they would simply have stopped functioning on Jan. 1, 2000. However, the Project ADAPT systems are complicated, and literally thousands of users need to be trained in using them...
...opinion is that we've come through the hardest part of the implementation. The ADAPT staff has done a great job in making changes (for example, speeding up the system that produces financial reports on research grants) in response to user requests. There's a lot more work to be done, but we're already starting to enjoy the benefits (such as better financial reporting) of the project...