FINDINI Release Schedule
A software release to the Oracle Financial Applications, known as a "FINDINI release", is done every two to four months. Each upgrade introduces needed bug fixes, enhancements, and technical upgrades into Harvard's financial systems. Generally, releases are performed on weekends to assure maximum availability during the business week. Most outages occur from 6 pm Friday evening-6 am Monday morning.
The next FINDINI Release 4.0.4 is scheduled for March 14-16, 2014. Details will be available in an upcoming e-News.
The Oracle Financial Applications are:
CREW FIN and HR Releases
The Common Reporting Environment for the Warehouse (CREW) is a reporting system that draws data from a variety of sources which are updated on a nightly basis. Users can submit report requests for immediate processing or schedule reports to automatically run on a recurring basis. Types of FIN CREW reports include financial, budget, receivables, grants management, and sponsored reports. Types of HR CREW reports include HR operational, affirmative action, benefits, compensation, costing, earnings, job, pension, service credit, security and training reports.
HR (PeopleSoft) and HR DW (Data Warehouse) Release 38.0
The next PeopleSoft Release (HR 38) is scheduled for May 16th-19th, 2014. Details will be availabe in an upcoming e-News.
The Human Resources Data Warehouse (HR DW) Release 38.0 is scheduled for May 16-19, 2014. Details of the release will be available in an upcoming edition of the e-News.
CREW Reports
In addition to the CREW Financial and CREW HR releases which correspond with the FINDINI and HR releases listed above, changes and enhancements to new and existing CREW reports are also released the 3rd weekend of each month.
| Release Number | Dates | Notes |
| 1.11 | 1/18/14 |
Sponsored Systems Releases
- GMAS release (1_36) was deployed over the weekend of December 14-15. Please see the December 2013 e-News for more information.
HUBS Releases
The Harvard University Budgeting System (HUBS) is a set of web-based Oracle Hyperion Planning applications used for budget data entry, estimates, annotations, reporting, and submission associated with the annual budget and planning cycles.
The last HUBS release took place during the last week of August. Please see the August 2013 e-News for more information.