On behalf of the Project Argo Steering Committee and the Finance, Human Resources and Information Technologies and Services Departments, we are pleased to announce the launch of the Weill Business Gateway (WBG) today. The culmination of two years of work, WBG represents a significant advance for financial and human resource administration for our campuses in NYC and in Qatar. Our staff have been working closely with departmental administrators, consultants, and our colleagues in NYC and Qatar to craft an integrated system that can meet the increasingly complex business requirements of the Medical College.
This first phase of the Weill Business Gateway will replace the core functionality provided by the legacy mainframe system (FRS) in NYC and the existing SAP system in Qatar, while providing several additional enhancements. This initial launch is the beginning of a much longer process to transform how the Medical College conducts its core financial, HR, and administrative functions. In upcoming phases of this ambitious effort, we will be launching services that will reduce the use of paper forms at the Medical College and allow greater "self-service" for employees and supervisors to manage essential personal and departmental data.
As with the launch of any complex new system, we do expect to encounter issues in the first few months and are fully prepared to remedy them as expediently as possible. We ask that those who will be accessing the system be vigilant in reporting issues to the ITS Service Desk so that we can analyze and address them quickly.
Project Argo, the collaborative effort to develop and implement the Weill Business Gateway, is one of the largest efforts by the Medical College to fundamentally change its administrative systems and processes. The effort to improve our administrative processes will continue on for several years, building on the core system being deployed today.
We look forward to continuing to work with departmental administrators, faculty, and representatives from our core clinical, educational, and research missions in both NYC and Qatar to build a state-of-the-art system to meet our current and future administrative needs.
For the latest news and information about the Weill Business Gateway, please visit the WBG web site.