Project Name:

Project K.E.Y.S., which stands for “Kent State: ERP is Your Solution”

Beginning date:

Officially began on December 30, 2005

Total time for Installation:

30 Months

Human Resources Module

• Start Date: Feb. 1, 2006
• Go-Live: Jan. 1, 2007

Student Information System Module

• Start Date: May 1, 2006
• Go-Live: July 30, 2007 (Admissions); Oct. 17, 2007 (Registration); Dec. 3, 2007 (Bursars- Accounts Receivables)
• Financial Aid
• • Start Date: March 1, 2007/ Go-Live: March 1, 2008

Financial Module

• Start Date: July 1, 2006
• Go-Live: July 1, 2007

Total Budget allocated for the project:

$23,000,000

Software/Application Provider:

SunGard Higher Education Solutions   Link to: www.sungardhe.com

Software/Application Name(s) to be installed:

SunGard Higher Education Banner (“Banner”). The University installed the “Banner Advancement” module a few years ago and now, Project K.E.Y.S. will complete the University’s transition to a “unified digital campus.” The entire Banner administrative suite of student, financial aid, finance, HR, and advancement systems; supports institutions of all sizes and types as a tightly integrated suite of proven, scalable, enterprise-wide applications on a single database.

More than 900 institutions, world-wide rely on SunGard Higher Education and the Banner solutions to achieve their goals of enhancing individual and institutional performance and supporting learning communities.

Modules to be installed (3 Stage implementation):

Banner Human Resources

• Manages data to recruit, hire, and retain the best talent
• Self service enrollment for employee benefits
• Channelized content of employee details that gives employees quick access to important information about their benefits and employment.
• Enable employees to enter their time sheets, leave reports, and/or advance leave requests via self service
• Automate and easily track personnel actions including compensation changes, promotions, leaves and termination
• Integration with Banner Student, Financial Aid, Finance, and Advancement

Banner Student

• Consolidate each learner's record into one, from recruiting to alumnus
• Make your online application a unique signature of your institution
• Use e-mail to communicate quickly with prospects, applicants, and students
• Support your non-traditional learners and open learning courses with flexible scheduling, registration, teaching, and learning modes
• Create, track, and record multiple programs for today's learners who may seek unlimited majors, minors, and concentrations within a term or across academic periods
• Quickly access faculty classroom and office hours formatted in a weekly or daily calendar view with course title links for instant access to course details (class schedule, enrollment, roster, office hours and syllabi information)
• Provide Advisors with dashboards for quick and easy searching tools to obtain pertinent information about advisees (name, class standing, major) and pertinent links to academic transactions (degree audit, academic transcript, test scores, e-mail address)

Banner Finance

• Configurable, rule-based budgetary controls to ensure expenditures remain within budgetary guidelines for all funding sources
• Central repository for all financial transactional processing with real-time query access and reporting
• Electronic approvals workflow to eliminate the paper chase
• e-Procurement partnership with SciQuest to reduce and control maverick spending on supplies and equipment
• Full integration with Banner Student, Financial Aid, Human Resource and Advancement systems allowing you to focus your resources on improving operational efficiencies, not on maintaining interfaces to third-party software

Several other smaller applications will be implemented as well including Banner Financial Aid and Banner General, for example.

Total list of areas to be affected by the installation:

The entire campus is affected by this implementation in some way, shape or form.

Total number of KSU staff involved in this project:

At its highest point, a staff of 90 will be working with the Project K.E.Y.S. implementation team.

Project Director:

Roberta Sikula-Schwalm, former KSU University Registrar for 16 years and over 35 years of higher education experience.