Additional Kuali Success Stories

Here are the stories from other Kuali Members and Partners who have adopted Kuali -

 

The Kuali Financial System, Kuali for Stevens (KFS), became the official financial record for Stevens Institute of Technology for fiscal year 2012 and beyond, and replaced the Financial Records System (FRS), which had been in place for nearly 30 years.  Read more....Stevens Installs KFS Kuali SaaS

University of Arizona went live with the Kuali Financial System (KFS) version 3.0 on their campus.  The UA implementation delivered a comprehensive campus-wide set of modules including General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Purchasing, Capital Assets, Labor Ledger and Accounts Receivable.

Arizona has been a member of the Kuali Foundation since 2005 and a partner with the KFS and KC project.  Kuali is a primary example of how institutions can contain costs in higher education through innovation and collaboration by using open source software solutions.  UA joins other universities who have already implemented KFS, including Colorado State University, San Joaquin Delta Community College, Michigan State University and Cornell University.       

The implementation of the Kuali systems for financial management and research administration are part of a large enterprise systems overhaul for Arizona referred to as The Mosaic Project.  The Mosaic Project team, led by Hank Childers, with the implementation of the Kuali Financial System, has completed upgrading all legacy systems on campus.  Implementation of KFS was the last major deliverable of the Mosaic Project.

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The University of Hawaii (UH) implemented Proposal Development and Award modules of Kuali Coeus (KC) 3.1, on November 1, 2011. UH is one of the founding members of the Kuali Foundation and has been a partner of the Kuali Financial System (KFS) since 2004.

When Kuali Coeus (KC) 1.0 was released in July 2008, the research administration at UH took notice. After a careful assessment, UH decided to implement KC as its system-to-system (S2S) electronic research administration system in order to fully benefit from the Kuali source environment and the integration with KFS that the Kuali solutions jointly offer. A land grant, sea grant and space grant institution with annual total extramural awards of $490 million, UH shares similar experiences and concerns with research institutions across the nation with regard to electronic research administration. As part of the Kuali community, UH will be able to address issues collectively and more efficiently.

MRC Greenwood, President of the University of Hawaii, says, "I am delighted that we have achieved our goal of implementing the Kuali Coeus (KC) system at UH. As a research university, we are proud to be part of Kuali family and to have a state-of-the-art electronic research administration system in our arsenal. Congratulation to Office of Research Services (ORS) and its KC implementation team for such an auspicious achievement."

Boston University announced its launch of Kuali Coeus (KC) on June 28th, 2011. The implementation marks the end of the first phase of the university’s two-phased KC project. Phase 1 spanned over the course of nine months and resulted in the release of the Proposal Log, Institutional Proposal, and Awards modules of KC for use by central office research administration staff. This phase also included the development of a series of business warehouse reports delivered to the broader research community. Phase 2, scheduled for completion in July 2012, will roll-out the Proposal Development module to all schools and departments at the university. Boston University partnered with Huron Consulting Group for assistance with the implementation.

“The completion of Phase 1 marks a substantial win for the research community at Boston University. Through the usage of the integrated Business Warehouse, faculty and administrators now have visibility into proposal and award information that did not exist with our legacy systems,” said Andrew Horner, Assistant Vice President, Post Award Financial Operations at Boston University. “Further, the completion of Phase 1 has enabled streamlined award set-up through a single point of data entry in KC that is then electronically interfaced to the University’s new SAP financial management system, resulting in significant gains in both efficiency and accuracy.”

Additional project information can be found at http://www.bu.edu/kcrm.

On Monday, May 16, 2011, Tuition Change—an Enterprise Workflow solution powered by Kuali Rice—became available to University of Washington (UW) administrators who deal with changing the fees that students are charged for educational instruction. Tuition change will automate a variety of processes, saving the UW time and money while enhancing compliance. Tuition Change is the first Kuali Rice product implemented at the UW, which has been a member of the Kuali Foundation since 2009 and is a partner on the Rice project and a founding partner on the Kuali Student project. The process of changing tuition in various UW colleges and schools currently requires the use of paper forms, takes several days or longer to complete, and is difficult to track. 

Tuition Change also provides visibility into the complex process of changing the cost of courses or programs—a process that starts in a department, moves through administrative layers including technicians and secretaries, and ends at the Board of Regents. It provides an easy method to tell who has made changes and who has the ball now in a workflow process. It also can accommodate and track the widely different rules that individual colleges and schools have regarding increasing tuition.

Jeff Petersen, Assistant Director of Student Fiscal Services for the UW, and among the first to use the new workflow, said, “Thanks to UW Information Technology for the fabulous work done on automating the tuition change process here at the UW!  The Tuition Team was honored to be chosen to participate in one of the first enterprise workflow implementations on campus and the final product has surpassed our expectations.  I found the tool to be easy to use, and I am excited to finally have a centralized place to monitor the status of each step in this important work.  I look forward to seeing more Kuali Rice implementations in the future, and I’m excited for the potential it holds for the broader campus community.”