North Dakota state government and higher education have invested in PeopleSoft's Human Resources, Financials, and Student Administration solutions to replace their legacy systems. The State and North Dakota University System (NDUS) are participating jointly in this project. MAXIMUS consulting company has developed a four-part (component) implementation and deployment plan. The four components include a two (2) campus pilot project (Mayville State and Valley City State universities, a pilot state agency project (Office of Management and Budget), a complete deployment for all decentralized functions for all eleven (11) campuses and a complete deployment of decentralized functions for state agencies. The implementation work is to be executed over approximately thirty (30) calendar months beginning April of 2002 and completed in the third quarter of 2004.
Hundreds of people in higher education and state government, with functional and technical expertise, are working on the ConnectND project towards a successful implementation. For more information about this project see http://www.nodak.edu/connectnd/.