The NeBIS Team provides functional and technical support for the Business Information System for the University of Nebraska and State College System. NeBIS supports, manages, and/or interfaces with numerous services and systems, including:
- SAP: the system of record for all activity in key areas such as Human Resources, Accounting, Grants, Fixed Assets, Procurement, Payroll, Time Tracking, and Accounts Payable.
- Firefly: the business portal for all campuses and colleges. Firefly includes Employee Self Service (ESS), My Staff (MSS), Travel Request and Expense, as well as starting points for many job functions. Firefly is the local branding of the SAP Portal and provides an interface for SAP system activities.
- Ariba: a web-based eProcurement system for placing orders to preferred and contracted suppliers, with automated workflow approval routing, electronic invoicing and spend tracking analysis.
- NIS: State of Nebraska Information System which supports the administrative business activity for state agencies, including the University of Nebraska.
NeBIS team supports both the functional and technical operations across nine application areas:
- Develop technical solutions to enhance business processes and align with strategic goals
- Deliver multifaceted data flows to meet ever-changing technology
- Oversee integrations and diagnose anomalies between applications and systems
Business Intelligence and Budget
Business Intelligence (BI)
- Transform data into consumable business information solutions
- Empower access to an agile reporting environment in response to dynamic business needs
Budget
- Integrate two autonomous systems to offer a full budgeting solution leveraging common data for maximum efficiency of distinct budget processes
- Deliver a flexible planning solution to support annual and biennial budget activities while reusing data to power multiple downstream processes
- Translate complex business processes into learning tools
- Advocate an efficient and effective end user experience
- Craft and communicate business system developments
- Champion NeBIS interests in supporting ITS initiatives
- Oversee accurate system-wide financial postings
- Bridge business processes and technical specifications
- Design custom applications to facilitate strategic financial solutions
- Ensure integrity of human capital data
- Administer the authoritative source for identity management system
- Serve as the conduit for employee benefit program and support service solutions
- Interpret system integration complexities and implement universal resolutions
- Disseminate employee data through interactive business portal
- Orchestrate integration of electronic transactions within procure-to-pay processes
- Streamline electronic workflow approvals and notifications
- Configure and administer third-party business applications
- Extract and interpret system data to meet federal and state reporting regulations
- Shepherd full range of payroll services
- Guarantee compliance with federal and state regulations
- Decipher complex system issues
- Foster positive relationships with campus constituents
- Govern access into systems
- Configure and implement change control governance recommended by external sources
- Manage and monitor operating system level security
- Report access compliance including segregation of duties
- Partner with internal and State of Nebraska auditors for system compliance
- Manage system landscape configurations and operations
- Monitor and modify system for consistent health and performance
- Identify issues, analyze, and apply system improvements
- Interface with IT service partners
- Develop and prepare for disaster recovery operations
- Architect and design solutions for efficient business functionality
