eUP Leaks

12 Jun 2015
eUP - 1.3 billion pesos hence
eUP is the flagship project of the Pascual administration. It's supposed to be his
legacy that will help make UP a "great university."
eUP as planned
Armed with a 750-million peso budget, eUP has been scheduled to launch in 2012.
Contracted by ePLDT, the eUP project pushed on amidst resistance from some UP
constituents. eUP's schedule slid to 2013.
Now going way way beyond its schedule and way over the budget (reportedly 1.3
billion pesos in cost so far), eUP hardly has anything to show for it.
SAIS
Take the Student Academic Information System (SAIS), a major component of eUP.
It's supposed to have rolled out in UP Manila and UP Cebu already. It didn't work in
UPOU where it was first tested. When it was introduced in UP Manila after periods of
"testing," SAIS couldn't be run smoothly, to put it rather charitably.
Three years in the making, this is how the billion-peso project looks like now.
It couldn't even get its calendar right. Summer in June and July? You can't even write
your entire course title due to limited number of characters allowed.
Check out the grades.
UP grades are 1.0, 1.25, and so on. Here in SAIS it's 100, 200, and so on. They are
of course trumped by "500" (an insider joke). You might start asking what else does
SAIS offer, besides mangled grades. How much choice do students have in picking
courses? Can SAIS produce transcripts of records? And isn't it supposed to replace
the ever tried-and-tested, functionally rich CRS?
There's also the issue of user support. SAIS is barely afloat, and the PAEF
administration is just trying to save face.
Ok, Ateneo, poke fun at it: https://sais.up.edu.ph
HRIS
The Human Resource Information System (HRIS), another major eUP component,
has been touted to solve perennial employee woes (personnel records, leave
management, time and attendance, etc.). So take a look at a selfie of this billion-
peso behemoth. Ganda nuh?
If you click on the menu of UP Employee Self Service, you'll get all sorts of links to
the information that UP employees are supposed to fill out.
Of course they are to fill these forms out because the mother link says "self
service." The problem, however, is that HRIS is supposed to have imported existing
VERIFIED, VETTED employee information lodged in HR offices of the University.
Currently such essential information is unavailable in HRIS and employees are
supposed to take time out of their busy schedules to once more provide the
information they already submitted ages ago.
Can employees already file leaves via HRIS? No! And how much is the eUP project
costing UP again?
Given the price tag (1.3 billion pesos and counting), you'd expect a top-of-line,
state-of-the-art system. But check out its footer.
Throwback to 2006, baby!, courtesy of Oracle and its pushers in the local market.
Thanks to screenshots and updates from CUs. Keep sharing, folks!
Ok, UP faculty and staff, start filling out eUP forms at http://hris.up.edu.ph before
Mang Fred decides to hold your Christmas bonus if you don't comply.
FMIS
eUP Leaks

And, the Financial Management Information System (FMIS) of eUP? Don't get us
started.
It's 3 years in the making, and you'd think it's done already. Nope. Still in
development, despite what the administration's claim that it's being deployed
already. What you have are forms to input initial data. Don't take our word for it. Ask
people who are really in the know.
It's doubtful FMIS is something that can be useful to UP offices in a year or so. By
that time, the University is left with the spoils and it is highly doubtful that the next
UP Administration will take up a broken project.
You can expand the Disbursement Voucher module, for instance.
At first glance you might think there's enough to work with. What you have is simply
a bunch of forms, many of which are themselves incomplete. Such forms are not
even linked to complete business processes. Doubt may also be cast on their being
compliant with existing audit rules.
Yet, those who were hauled to get "trained" or oriented to FMIS were there on a
"user acceptance testing." Accept what? Accept an incomplete, useless system? Is
there a third-party audit to say that FMIS (or eUP for that matter) is really what UP
specified? Who benefits then from such premature "acceptance"?
All is well is the imagination of eUP people. In one presentation abroad in 2014, for
instance, eUP project leaders boasted just "how the challenge of meeting the
stakeholders requirements (i.e. quality of service (QoS), interoperability, project
schedule synchronization, technology standardization and customer satisfaction)
was addressed to deliver the project's commitments and ensure overall success of
the eUP Project."*
Wow! Just wow!
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