People Soft upgrade alleviates U. Minnesota problems

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Over the past three months, the team
has successfully tackled many problems
that plagued the system during its first
six months of service.

. . .

But some lurking problems persist, and
the University is scrambling to stabilize
the costly system.

"There are continuing problems with the
reconciliation of student accounts at the
end of the year, along with billing issues,"
Kvavik said.

. . .

About 37,000 students experienced a two-month
delay in receiving financial aid last fall. In
January, the system had to be shut down
following a crash after thousands of students
attempted to access the University network at
once.

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-- spider (spider0@usa.net), July 11, 2000


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