Operations Support and Innovation
Operations Support and Innovation
The Operations Support and Innovation (OSI) Department supports the campus community in the use of the Administration and Finance Division's systems.
For example:
- Common Financial System (CFS)
- Financial and Student/Human Resources Reporting, using tools such has PSQuery, OAS and Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition (OBIEE)
- Interfaces between CMS Finance and CMS Student/Human Resources
- Business Process Improvements
Recent Updates
Common Financial System (CFS) MP 5.0 Upgrade:
The CFS application will undergo an application upgrade beginning 5pm Friday, November 18, through 9am Monday, November 21. The CFS and Finance Data Warehouse applications will be down during this time. The upgraded CFS MP 5.0 database will be available again on Monday 11/21 at 9am.
In preparation for this release, CFS users are advised to clear browser cache before logging into the CFS application on Monday morning.
While the functionality of the system is not changing for end users, the look and feel is slightly changing for the home page and navigation.
To assist with these changes and to learn more about the upgrade, the CSU Chancellor Office (CO) has created an online video explaining the changes and enhancements. The CO also posted the following FAQ document for this upgrade.
Finance Data Warehouse Upgrade (OAC):
The CSU Chancellor’s Office announced that the current Finance Data Warehouse (OBIEE) version will be migrated to Oracle Analytics Cloud (OAC) version. The upgraded data warehouse will go-live on Wednesday, November 16th.
Once the upgrade is completed, the CSUMB dashboard Finance Data Warehouse link will be replaced with the new upgraded link. Any saved customizations and user defaults should transfer over to the upgraded version. The Chancellor Office has posted the following document explaining the changes and enhancements.
If you have any further questions, please contact us at osi@csumb.edu.