Upgrading IIT’s administrative infrastructure benefits everyone associated with the IIT community—faculty, staff, students, vendors and visitors—toward these goals:

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• customer satisfaction
• software stability and reliability
• data integrity and audit trails
• management reporting capabilities
• level of system functionality for transaction processing
• regulatory reporting capabilities
• business processes
• decentralized environment for users

IIT’s major investment in this effort will translate into increased institutional value, including improved information dissemination, efficient access to information, integration of administrative systems, and better knowledge sharing across the organization through the training and use of Enterprise Resource Planning applications. Here are just some of the benefits:

• Saves operational expenses by automating several processes
• Reduces manual labor-intensive and duplicative processes
• Increases online access on and off campus (self services) for students, faculty and staff
• Creates a positive cultural change in the way business is conducted
• Positions university to fully utilize new technologies such as web services, wireless devices and PDAs
• More efficient financial audit process
• Provides access to complete and accurate data
• Improves data analysis, which helps faculty and staff leaders make effective business decisions about enrollment management and curriculum and course planning
• Significantly reduces paper forms, paper requisitions, booklets and more
• Provides easy access to budget reports
• Automatically creates account codes
• Makes available performance matrices
• Makes available online the university’s administrative policies and procedures