Looking Forward:

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• Looking Forward
• PeopleSoft Recruiting and Admissions
• March 2000 IUG Meeting
• Mike Kohmescher, Product Strategy
• Anthony Scaglione, Product Development

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Personnel

• Product Strategy
• Jenny Rickard, Vice President
• Mike Kohmescher, Recruiting Admissions

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Release Planning Process

• Who
• Senior Management, Product Strategy, Development,
  Release Management
• What
• Product Strategy
• Why
• Product Strategy
• When
• Product Strategy, Development, Release Management
• How
• Development

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Product Priority Drivers

• Customer input
• Product Advisory Group
• Focus and Guide Groups
• Field Representatives
• Global Support Center
• Regulatory requirements
• Technology opportunities
• Competitive environment

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Product Advisory Group - Charge

• Advisory Capacity
• Provide Product Content Feedback
• Polling of Constituents
• Assist in Identifying Focus Group Members
• Assist with Regulatory Interpretations
• Product Review
• Provide Test Scenarios
• Identify Best Practice

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Product Advisory Group (PAG)

• Your liaison with PeopleSoft Product Strategy and
  Product Development
• Suggests ideas for enhancements (will do for
  post-Release 8)
• Helps prioritize possible enhancements
• Assists with forming guide groups (will do for
  Release 8)
• Coordinates IUG sessions

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PAG Members

• Barbara Fortin, Boise State University (Chair)
• Demetrius Cunia, Syracuse University
• Sue Jarrell, Duke University
• Kathy Lantz, Metropolitan Colleges

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PAG Membership

• Call for new members to replace those whose terms
  are expiring
• Submit ideas to Product Strategy for consideration

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Admissions 7.6
Weve provided HTML Access!
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Admissions 7.6-View Application Status
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Admissions 7.6-View Missing Items
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Admissions 7.6-Accept Admission
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Admissions 7.6-Accept/Decline
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Admissions 7.6-Confirm Accept
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Admissions 7.6-Accept Admission
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Admissions 7.6-Confirm Decline
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Admissions 7.6-Decline Reason
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Enrollment Services

• Supports three products
• Recruiting and Admissions
• Student Records
• Academic Advisement
• Four work teams
• Creating Academic Structure
• Building Enrollment
• Transitioning to Student
• Managing Academic Records

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Team Reorganization

• New Team Roles
• Improved processes in place
• Quality Initiative

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New Team Roles

• Technical Coordinators
• Functional Coordinators
• APRD Coordinator
• Development Support Coordinator
• Technical Review Coordinator

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Improved Processes

• Cross-functional design teams
• Design review sessions
• Technical design/code walkthroughs
• Packaging database (PK1)
• Coordinated APRD management

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7.6 Quality Initiatives

• Prospect and Applicant Delete and Update
• EDI improvements
• Test loads
• Medical college support issues

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Prospect and Applicant Delete

• Prospect and Applicant Delete Processes
• Provide options to delete individual prospect
  records, applications, and related 3Cs data
• Delete based on institution and career
• High-level personal data remains
• ID Delete process
• Deletes EmplID and personal data
• Does not delete if data exists on STDNT_CAREER
• Interrelation of processes needs improvement.

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Prospect and Applicant Delete

• Development project in progress.
• Joint effort involving Admissions and Campus
  Community development staff.
• Exploring prudent options to improve links
  between Prospect/Applicant and ID Delete.
• Development and quality assurance work will be
  complete by July 2000.
• Changes will be posted to Customer Connection.

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EDI Enhancements

• Increase level of support for EDI-related
  processes
• TS 189 - Application data
• TS 130 - Incoming transcript data
• Add new fields included in transaction sets
• Test interface with third party vendors

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External Data Load Enhancements

• Currently provide support for 14 individual
  external data loads
• Multiple agencies
• Record layouts
• Data element definitions
• Implementing greater consistency--where
  feasible--across the external data panels and
  processes

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Medical College Support Issues

• PeopleSoft is engaged in dialogue with the
  American Medical College Application Service
  (AMCAS) and our Medical College customers
• Modifying current MCAT external data load panels
  and processes to better reflect support for AMCAS
  data

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Release 8.0

• Objectives Targeted for Next Release
• Internet-enable existing functionality
• New feature development

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Release 8.0

• Enhance existing functionality for self-service
  and administrative use over the Internet
• Create Intuitive Interface
• Enhance the Internet Experience
• Allow easy navigation
• Enable Flexible Deployment
• Your institution will decide the functionality to
  deliver over the Internet
• HTML Pages--Customizable look and feel

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Release 8.0

• Target examples of Internet functionality
• Prospect demographic and address data
• Prospect request for information
• Prospect and applicant self-reported test scores,
  education data and academic interests
• What If processing for prospects and applicants
• Prospect and applicant transfer credit modeling
• Application evaluations

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Release 8.0

• New features targeted for next release
• Process to create prospects from external data
  loads
• Process to create prospects using EDI standard
  for prospective student information (TS 138)
• Educational Goals and Objectives

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Release 8.0

• Create prospects from external data
• Delivered external data processes currently write
  to Bio/Demo Data and Test Results.
• New process will use records loaded from external
  data files (e.g., SAT, GRE) to create prospective
  student records.

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Release 8.0

• Support for TS 138
• EDI standard for transmission of prospective
  student information and test scores
• Delivered process flow will be similar to
  existing EDI features Load, Search/Match, Post
  and Purge
• Your assistance is needed!
• Encourage organizations that provide prospect or
  test score data to adopt the TS 138 standard
• And keep asking for the TS 189 and TS 130, too

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Release 8.0

• Educational Goals and Objectives
• Feature will allow prospects and applicants to
  define their educational goals and objectives
• Current and historical goals can be maintained
  throughout a students relationship with an
  institution
• Feature will enable institutions to meet federal
  and state reporting requirements on Institutional
  Effectiveness

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In Summary

• Quality initiative already in motion!
• Internet!
• Enhancements targeted!

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Remember the Users Conference!

• Submit presentation ideas via Customer Connection
• Deadline is March 17

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Other Sessions to Check Out

• Campus Connection demonstration Monday 245
• Campus Connection Looking Forward Tuesday 415
• All Admissions sessions

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Recruiting and AdmissionsLooking Forward