ITSC eNewsletter, Issue 127 - Upgrade of CUHK Financial System (SAP)

	ITSC eNewsletter, Issue 127 20 Jan, 2012
	1. New CUHK eLearning System for the New Undergraduate Curriculum 2. Things that Need to Change Under the New Phone Number Prefix 3943 and 5-digit Extension 3. PDF, in addition to images and flash, files would also be supported in the University Translation Server Conversion 4. Upgrade of CUHK Financial System (SAP) 5. University Software Standards – Jan 2012 Updates 6. Maintenance Schedule 2012 7. Beware of Fraudulent E-mails Attempting to Acquire Your Personal or CWEM Account Information 8. Feature: Chinese Lunar New Year E-Cards Back to this issue

4. Upgrade of CUHK Financial System (SAP)

The CUHK Financial System is running on SAP which is an Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system. In Nov 2011, the system has undergone a major upgrade from R/3 Enterprise 4.7 to Enterprise 6.0. The upgrade was performed upon expiration of maintenance support of the previous release, which had been used for 7 years.

The upgrade brings a number of benefits including,

mainstream maintenance support service available
improved performance of new servers gives capacity for future growth
improved system availability:
- disaster recovery duration shortened from 1 day to an hour
- maximum data loss shortened from 1 day to a few minutes
the system can be further developed with new features explored by ITSC staff, e.g.
- single sign-on
- connectivity to LDAP (Lightweight Directory Access Protocol) without the need to maintain another set of accounts and passwords
Accessible via web browser
- Easier to deploy, no need to perform software installation on users' desktop computers

For further information, please contact ITSC Finance Systems Team at SAPSupport@itsc.cuhk.edu.hk .

The upgraded CUHK Financial System brings a number of benefits to users.

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