Word: adapters
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Five years in the making, the first phase of Harvard's Project ADAPT, that relating to financial systems, was implemented July 1, dramatically changing the way Harvard processes financial information. When the $112 million Project ADAPT began, reform of the information system was sorely needed, and although any project of this size is bound to bring minor bugs and annoyances, most of those affected by the change were willing to go along...
...School of Education. Given the frustrations of those using the system, Harvard's central administration must make strong efforts to restore communication between designers and users, and plans for the next step in the system's development, human resources, must avoid the errors that have thus far plagued Project ADAPT...
...goals of this first stage of Project ADAPT were noble: to improve the efficiency, capabilities and performance of Harvard's financial information systems. A successful Project ADAPT would substantially increase the amount of financial information available to administrators, improving accountability, reducing duplicate data entry, and providing year 2000 compliance as well as compliance with federal and state regulations...
...When Project ADAPT began, rather than scrap our existing system and all our experience, we adapted our system to Project ADAPT. As a result, we now have access to a wider variety of electron transactions and data...
...Some of the systems work more efficiently than others, and ADAPT systems project teams are working continuously to interface with end users and respond to requests and suggestions for improvements...