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Indeed, the University's data system isn't one for the modern age at all. It's 30 years old and "heavily tweaked," Proctor says. Beyond that, acknowledges Deputy Administrator Anne H. Margulies, the system is "inconsistent, sometimes it's inaccurate and sometimes it's difficult to get the answers to relatively simple questions...
Central administrators quickly realized that "a lot of information they felt was necessary in order to be effective leaders University wide wasn't available in the form that was helpful accurate, timely," Proctor says...
Meanwhile, such basic information as how many people are on a given payroll and how many faculty are tenured or untenured is difficult to retrieve without a mountain of paper Proctor says Even the highest ranking of Harvard's deans have to slog through these processes...
...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...
...first is the need to replace the University's core financial systems--its general ledger and accounts payable systems, for example. Proctor says these endeavors "move you from the $10 million range to the $30-$40 million range, which means it's a much higher hurdle in terms of payoff viability...