{"id":449,"date":"2012-12-14T14:59:52","date_gmt":"2012-12-14T22:59:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ups.edu\/optimize\/?p=449"},"modified":"2013-04-24T12:46:41","modified_gmt":"2013-04-24T19:46:41","slug":"kudos-to-ed-barber","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/optimize\/2012\/12\/14\/kudos-to-ed-barber\/","title":{"rendered":"Kudos to Ed Barber!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Procurement Director Ed Barber has been appointed to the Procure-to-Pay (PTP) Product Advisory Group of the  Higher Education User Group (HEUG) representing institutions that use application software from Oracle. The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heug.org\/p\/cm\/ld\/fid=593\" target=\"_blank\">HEUG website<\/a> describes the Procure-to-Pay group as &#8220;collaborating with Oracle  representatives on many levels to evolve the PTP products to continue to  improve functionality, flow, and user experience.&#8221; We have no doubt Ed will be a great advocate for Puget Sound and all others using Oracle&#8217;s PTP products!<\/p>\n<p>Campus Solutions had a great week, going live in PeopleSoft with the early decision process, which includes financial aid awarding and notification, for next fall\u2019s incoming class.<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the January 1 go-live of the Human Resources module, Jessie Carter from HR and Katie Holmes from ABS spent the week at MIS headquarters to work on configuration and testing. See the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/files\/resources\/10397_TechNews_FALL2012_web.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">fall issue<\/a> of the Technology Services newsletter, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pugetsound.edu\/about\/offices--services\/technology-services\/technews\/\" target=\"_blank\">TechNews<\/a>, for more information on the HR go-live and other Optimize developments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Procurement Director Ed Barber has been appointed to the Procure-to-Pay (PTP) Product Advisory Group of the Higher Education User Group (HEUG) representing institutions that use application software from Oracle. The HEUG website describes the Procure-to-Pay group as &#8220;collaborating with Oracle representatives on many levels to evolve the PTP products to continue to improve functionality, flow, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":141,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6,7,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campus-solutions","category-general","category-human-resources","category-technical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/optimize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/optimize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/optimize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/optimize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/141"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/optimize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=449"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/optimize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":677,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/optimize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/449\/revisions\/677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/optimize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/optimize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/optimize\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}