The Enterprise Systems Advisory Committee will assist the Chief Information Officer:
- Provide direction for the enterprise systems that support the University’s goals and objectives;
- Provide recommendations to the Technology Council for priorities and sequencing for information technology projects, enhancements, and new initiatives to ensure alignment with the University’s business goals and needs;
- Champion a common data model and other common infrastructure where needed, as well as best practices in the use of central, distributed, and hosted enterprise systems;
- Review and approve standards for enterprise data;
- Establish procedures for effective and efficient use of enterprise systems, and consider the impact of administrative systems changes on people, process, technology, standards and policies;
- Monitor progress of administrative system initiatives and provide guidance for ongoing administrative systems operations, support efforts, and enhancements, ensuring that resources are not being over-allocated;
- Encourage and facilitate the integration of systems and access to data across functional boundaries and guide the development of common data models;
- Resolve issues which span departmental or divisional boundaries;
- Support effective information technology security measures, policies and practices to ensure the confidentiality, integrity and availability of resources;
- Provide direction to prevent, where appropriate, unnecessary redundancy or non-sustainable service implementations;
- Develop proposals to enhance or expand enterprise services, implementing them when possible with available resources, and review proposals for new enterprise technologies coming from outside the Committee;
- Develop policies to ensure the effective and efficient use of enterprise systems and compliance with appropriate laws and regulations, forwarding them to the Technology Council for consideration; and
- Ensure that procedural documentation is available and up-to-date and that staff are appropriately trained.