Word: adp
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University officials announced yesterday that the Office of Information Technology (OIT) and the Administrative Data Project (ADP) will be jointly overseen by a new assistant provost responsible for their management...
...vast differences in accounting practices across the fiercely decentralized University complicate things further. In fact, information is so hard to centralize and collect that bulk purchasing is greatly complicated, costing the University thousands of dollars annually, says Vice President for Administration Sally H. Zeckhauser, who is on the ADP's executive committee...
...part of its preliminary efforts, the ADP put together a pilot desktop system last December, January and February. The program allowed lab directors and departmental administrators, for example, to make hiring and purchasing decisions via computer, Proctor says...
...second problem was the need for a University network infrastructure, which would be a movement against tradition. Now, the ADP is undertaking the mammoth task of achieving standardization throughout the University...
Right now, the ADP is focusing largely on those two problems, Proctor says...