Project Type

 

Type I – Maintenance, Production and Upgrades – includes the day to day tasks required to keep the systems up in a production environment, including the installation of the Pinnacle tapes, changes, etc., as well as testing associated with upgrades in IDMS or the mainframe OS.

 

Type II - Mandatory Enhancements - includes projects that are not related to installing vendor supplied software, but are required to meet some kind of statutory, regulatory or other issue for which UK can be sanctioned. 

 

Type III - Infrastructure Enhancements - includes changes UK has to make to upgrade software, hardware, etc. and/or improve the production environment in order to keep us current with technology changes and/or improve the efficiency of processes. 

 

Type IV - Other Enhancements - includes items requested by the campus to change either the online or reporting databases/systems, that do not fall into any of the three previous categories (i.e. add new elements to the database and/or screens, writing a new batch job, requesting data be added to the Data Warehouse, etc.).