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For years, the Weill Cornell Medicine Budget office has relied on Excel as the official budgeting system. In April, after 16 months of intensive collaboration between ITS, the Budget Office, Business Process Solutions, department administrators, and our implementation partner LSI consulting, the SAP Budget and Planning (SBP) module officially launched in the Weill Business Gateway (WBG). The SBP module is a centralized solution that allows the central budget office to collect, maintain, and track WCM departmental budgetary information.

On May 15, ITS will implement changes to our mobile device password policy to comply with new passcode standards from Apple and Android. These changes will require you to update the passcode on your tagged mobile device to a six-digit complex passcode, ensuring added security.

During the month of March, ITS hosted a special month of Tech Tuesday demos focused exclusively on Microsoft Excel. The four-week series touched on helpful everyday tips, Analysis for Excel, PivotTables, and VLOOKUP. In total, 238 people visited the library for Excel Month, a record-breaking number of attendees in the three years since ITS launched its Tech Tuesday program.

Join us for a great new schedule of demonstrations for faculty, staff, and students. Each week, our experts will showcase various software and tools, and answer your questions on how these resources can help you in your work at WCM. 

Upcoming schedule and topics

During the month of May, we’ll be hosting these topics. Download our flyer to keep at your desk:  

This past March, ITS launched the Breast Screening Decisions (BSD) app in the Apple App Store, a mobile app designed to support women ages 40-49 in making informed decisions about mammogram screening. The app, which is the first ITS-developed app ever launched in the App Store, was designed by our department’s Applications Development and Web Communication teams. However, the app itself is the brainchild of Dr. Margaret M.

On May 15, ITS will implement changes to our mobile device password policy to comply with new passcode standards from Apple and Android. These changes will require you to update the passcode on your tagged mobile device.

What do you need to do?

If your device already meets the standards described below, you do not need to take any action. However, we recommend verifying the following:

Effective April 14, our ITS Security team will begin introducing special tags to your email subject lines to help you identify email sent to you from outside of the institution. This can help you more easily filter messages and identify potential spam. 

How it works

When you receive an email from an address that is not from WCM, you will see a tag marking the email as “External” in the subject line: