Lightning Talk on Financial Workflows
Jimmy Vuccolo, Pennsylvania State University
A couple of years ago, I participated in one meeting about workflow at Penn State.
Turned into a lifetime of meetings.
In the financial operations of Penn State most things were hard coded.
So when someone resigned, there was a need to go in and remove IDS. Or someone goes onto new area in Penn State.
This was an expensive solution. We worked w LDAP.
He's involved with LDAP service. They said fix it.
First cut at using roles to control access to this info. Took the policy and made it into
actual software. Financial commjunity got solution, and now acaedemic community wants it. It's called WEBRAT. They need to figure out how to take it to research community.
Q: dso problem is roles are different for academic than for finance dept?
A: yes
In academic side we don't have spending limits. COuldn't reuse roles.
Tool has to gather info to define roles.
Sounds like left column of Rob's use case analysis
Liz: we have similar situation. Debating if we need to build something to capture
Who is everyone's budget approver, etc. Haven't started or scoped theproject.
Does anyone know if this has been built anyone?
Jimmy: Data sources are the big problem.