To support a modern business environment, we must transform our current business practices
Updated Dec. 2, 2022
Aggie Enterprise is a multiyear initiative to optimize our business processes and adopt a system to support our financial, planning and business operations.
Aggie Enterprise involves the intersection of several distinct efforts:
- Creating consistency in our accounting structure and practices through a new Chart of Accounts (CoA).
As the common language across all financial, planning and business operations, Chart of Accounts work began in January 2021.
- Meeting UC Office of the President reporting requirements.
All UC locations are required to report financial transactions to UCOP in the new Common Chart of Accounts format beginning July 1, 2023. While KFS and boundary systems users will continue to use the current Full Accounting Unit (FAU) until Aggie Enterprise go-live on January 1, 2024, central Finance and Financial Systems teams will translate FAU data to the new CoA for reporting.
- Simplifying our fund structure and centralizing fund management through the Common Operating Fund Initiative (COFI).
Upon completion in March 2022, COFI funds were incorporated into the data mapping efforts for the Chart of Accounts.
- Configuring the Aggie Enterprise system, supported by Oracle Cloud Financials, to provide functionality currently supported by multiple systems and applications.
Chart of Accounts segments and values will be configured in Aggie Enterprise. At go-live on January 1, 2024, KFS users will transition to the Aggie Enterprise system, and all systems users will begin transacting using the new CoA.
Project Overview Timeline
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Guiding Principles
The Aggie Enterprise guiding principles were developed to ensure alignment with the university's strategic priorities and industry best practices.
These principles, developed by the project governance in consultation with the project management office and key stakeholders, will inform the governance decisions and project team actions throughout the course of the project. The project governance engages the Aggie Enterprise Advisory Board for recommendations on configuration and process decisions and feedback on the impacts of the project.
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Aggie Enterprise is a strategic business transformation initiative.
- Aggie Enterprise will align systems and process to support sound financial management, transforming current business practices to embrace current technology and reduce inefficiencies. Once implemented, the system will deliver integrated modern financial accounting and controls, reporting, budget and planning, procurement capabilities and data analytics.
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The project will leverage best practices in financial management and business operations.
- Design decisions will be based on best practices in financial management and business operations, evaluated for the good of the institution as a whole. UC Davis will rely on the built-in configuration of the system and adapt business processes to these standards, implementing new solutions to replace home-grown or obsolete systems.
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The transformation initiative will drive accountability and decision-making.
- Data analytics and standard workflows will inform new business processes that support sound financial management and accountability. New reporting capabilities will provide standard financial reporting, analysis and oversight tools, along with improved integrated internal controls. New budget and planning capabilities will enable strategic alignment of resources to support the mission of the university
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The design will maximize configuration and eliminate customizations.
- Through modern process design, UC Davis will leverage built-in flexible configurations and eliminate code customizations. This will help maintain system integrity, allowing UC Davis to take advantage of regular system updates delivered by Oracle, rather than requiring substantial periodic reimplementation of the system.
With support from implementation partners, UC Davis will appoint internal resources to lead the project. After implementation, UC Davis will independently support the system without the ongoing use of external resources. -
The governance team will seek to maintain the balance between timeline, budget and scope.
- In any major system implementation, there is a natural tension between timeline, budget and scope. We will adhere to a governance model that provides leadership, accountability and oversight, and considers the needs of stakeholders throughout UC Davis. While all options will be discussed when decisions need to be made, there will be a bias toward maintaining timeline first, then budget, and then scope as part of the decision-making rubric.
In Nov. 2022, in consultation with leadership and in response to feedback from stakeholders and the Aggie Enterprise Project Management Office, the decision was made to allow a one-time extension of the go-live date from July 1, 2023, to Jan. 1, 2024. This allows for more participation in user acceptance testing, end-user training and change management activities that will support a more successful launch.