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  • Town Hall Title Slide

    Status Update - Town Hall, Progress and Timeline Update

    In this post, information about the recent Town Hall meeting is covered along with a status update including the official project timeline, progress completed so far, and things we are getting excited about. Project AURORA Town Hall - May 17, 2018 A town hall meeting was held on May 17, 2018 hosted...

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  • Benefits realization strategy broken down

    Status Update - Benefits Realization

    What are the goals for Project AURORA? While we are still early in the implementation process to replace VIU’s core administrative Finance, HR, Payroll, and Student systems, it is important that we look forward now to the benefits we hope to achieve through Project AURORA. A Benefits Realization...

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  • Timeline showing that we are currently in the System Configuration phase for Finance, the Requirements Validation phase for HR/Payroll, and the Requirements Gathering phase for Student Management.

    Status Update - February 2018

    Finance System configuration has begun for the Finance system, which includes the redesign of the Chart of Accounts structure.  Consultation meetings will be arranged with areas once the initial configuration draft is complete so that individual requirements can be discussed. Human Resources/...

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  • Project Team in November, 2017

    Status Update - AURORA Team

    *not all team members are pictured in the photo.  For a complete list with contact details, go here. It takes a lot of people to transform VIU’s administrative systems! There are 19 people who are directly working on the project either full-time or part-time through the implementation period. There...

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