September 2018

FINDINI 4.0.14 Release - Upcoming October System Outages for Oracle Financials Systems

September 12, 2018

Oracle EBS FINDINI 4.0.14 Release Notes:

The Fall 2018 FINDINI 4.0.14 release will be available to users on Monday October 22, 2018.

Please continue to review updated release messages and outage information that will be posted in the September & October e-news articles, on the Oracle Financial splash pages, and on the sites listed below.

Short Summary:

Due to work being...

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Temporary Shutdown of CAPS System for FINDINI Enhancements (10/12 – 10/23)

September 12, 2018

CAPS will disable CAPS workflow at the end of day on Friday, October 12th. Projects in workflow on that date will either be approved by the 19th or Returned for Edit to CAPS Requestors. This is necessary to properly deploy the enhancements to the CAPS system for the asset location table for future impairments identification. CAPS will re-enable workflow on October 23rd .

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Harvard Data Warehouse Cloud Migration: Sept 20-24, 2018

September 12, 2018

As part of Harvard’s larger move to the Cloud, the Harvard Data Warehouse (HDW) will migrate from our data center at 60 Oxford St., Cambridge to Amazon Web Services (Cloud).

From 8 p.m. on Thursday, September 20th through Monday, September 24, as the migration is in process, the Harvard Data Warehouse will be unavailable.

Please note:

  • Direct queries will be unavailable.
  • During the...
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HUBS: An Outage, Delayed Actuals in Reporting and More

September 12, 2018

This is a reminder that HUBS will be unavailable from 5 p.m. on Tuesday, September 18, until the start of business the next morning, Wednesday, September 19. The outage is necessary to accommodate the move of LDAP Services to the cloud. All HUBS Overnight Processes will run as usual.

HUBS will also be impacted when Harvard’s Data Warehouse (HDW) moves to the cloud between September 20-24. During this move:

  • HUBS will be updated as usual on the night of Wednesday, September 19 to bring in actuals for the Reporting Applications and COA values to both...
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Changes in Wire Transfer Authorization Forms

September 12, 2018

The Harvard community is being actively targeted by an outside group(s) that is seeking to initiate fraudulent wire transfers. As a result, the Cash Management Office (in the Office of Treasury Management) has added an authentication step to strengthen wire transfer procedures. Effective immediately, all requests to initiate a wire transfer or to change payment instructions via email, even if it comes from someone you know and/or a colleague at Harvard, must be verified either by phone to a previously-known/known-legitimate phone number or in...

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How to Look Up HCOM Vendor Types and Expiration Dates

September 12, 2018

Please be sure to review vendor types and expiration dates to confirm if a vendor is active and if a payment is allowable (e.g., no income payments such as honoraria or stipends are allowable on Temporary or BER Foreign Vendor types).

The VISA Expiration Date shows the expiration date for the current immigration documentation on file.

The Inactive Date is the date the vendor will be made inactive.

See vendor set-up materials in the ...

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Travel Policy Brown Bag Session

September 12, 2018

Wondering what system you should use to reimburse someone for out-of-pocket expenses and when?

How about figuring out when a travel or moving expense might be considered taxable to an individual. Do you know what type of plane ticket classes are considered allowable business expenses?

If you share these questions or have similar ones, please join us at an information...

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