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.
When someone resigned or changed departments, there was a need to go in and remove IDS.
This was an expensive solution.
Used an LDAP approach to create a better system.
The approach was to use roles to control access. Took the policy and made it into
actual software. The financial community got a solution, and now academic community wants it. It's called WebRAT.
http://ais.its.psu.edu/newsletter/jul_09.asp?page=2
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.