NC State & UNC-Chapel Hill Joint Enterprise Services (JES) project

Overview

In fall 2009, UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State University agreed  to jointly develop, implement, maintain, upgrade and operate their enterprise resource systems to the greatest extent possible. This effort will be limited to the Human Resources and Financial systems. This partnership is charged with collaborating to find the most effective and efficient methods of sharing hardware, software, resources, business operations and external contracts in order to improve effectiveness and reduce costs of HR and Financial systems for both universities while ensuring that each university can continue to meet its mission and goals.

The intent is for both institutions to commit equal resources to the partnership’s implementation and on-going operations for all common elements (e.g. infrastructure for development, testing and QA, database and system operations, resources including hardware, system software and people). Applications that are unique to one institution with significant cost will be funded independently by that university (e.g. Student, production hardware, PeopleSoft licenses).

See Joint Enterprise Services - (NC State / Carolina PeopleSoft Partnership) joint CIO memorandom April 9, 2010.

See Governance and Management Model-Carolina & NC State Partnership April, 2010 presentation.

Partnership Vision

NC State University and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are mutually committed to sharing resources and expertise to implement PeopleSoft HR, Payroll, and Finance systems, using common solutions to the fullest extent possible in both technical and functional design, to maximize the benefits and outcomes for both institutions.

Goals, Objectives & Scope

See “UNC-Chapel Hill and NC State Collaboration Draft Plan” November 18, 2009 presentation

Authority

This partnership was formed under the authority of Marc Hoit, NC State Vice Chancellor for IT and CIO, and Larry Conrad, UNC-Chapel Hill Vice Chancellor for IT and CIO, with appropriate approval from both institutions and the UNC-General Administration.

Project start date

October 2009

Project end date 

January 2013, with operation of the Joint Enterprise Services unit continuing beyond the PeopleSoft HR 9.1 joint implementation/upgrade milestone.