{"id":111731,"date":"2017-12-15T13:47:11","date_gmt":"2017-12-15T18:47:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/?p=111731"},"modified":"2017-12-15T15:28:18","modified_gmt":"2017-12-15T20:28:18","slug":"buworks-outage-20171222-28","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/2017\/12\/15\/buworks-outage-20171222-28\/","title":{"rendered":"Planned BUworks Outage &#8211; Dec 22 to 28"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Please be advised that BUworks Services will have a scheduled outage over intersession beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, December 22, 2017 through 6 p.m. Thursday, December 28, 2017. This outage is necessary to perform software updates required to\u00a0implement a major upgrade to the BUworks hardware and database platform.<\/p>\n<p>All BUworks services including time entry submission and approval, paystub viewing, journal entries, bank updates and address information, student\/staff\/faculty request form submissions, BW reports, and sourcing and procurement will be unavailable during this time.<\/p>\n<p>Offices are advised to ensure:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>All time is entered and approved prior to December 22 to avoid missed payments for payments due December 29.<\/li>\n<li>Organizational Management (OM) and Personnel Administration (PA) forms are submitted according to the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/hr\/manager-resources\/employee-time-an\/buworks-forms-deadlines\/\">BUworks Forms Deadline calendar<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Journal entries are approved at the department level by 5pm on Tuesday Dec 19 to allow time for central office approval and posting to December.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For questions related to the impact of this service interruption on:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Payroll, please contact the Payroll Office at 617-353-2781<\/li>\n<li>OM or PA forms, please contact the HR Service Center at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:hrsys@bu.edu\">hrsys@bu.edu<\/a>\u00a0or 617-353-2380<\/li>\n<li>Sponsored Research journal entries, please contact Cost Transfers at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:costrans@bu.edu\">costrans@bu.edu<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Non-Sponsored Research journal entries, please contact Comptroller&#8217;s Office &#8211; Financial Operations at\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:jleone@bu.edu\">jleone@bu.edu<\/a>\u00a0or 617-353-4266<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For help or assistance anytime, please contact the IT Help Center by sending an email to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:ithelp@bu.edu\">ithelp@bu.edu<\/a>\u00a0or calling 617-353-HELP (4357).<\/p>\n<p>We apologize for any inconvenience this outage may cause.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Boston University<\/strong>\u00a0Information Services &amp; Technology IT Help Center <a href=\"mailto:ithelp@bu.edu\">ithelp@bu.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>617-353-HELP (4357)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\">www.bu.edu\/tech<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Please be advised that BUworks Services will have a scheduled outage over intersession beginning at 6 p.m. on Friday, December 22, 2017 through 6 p.m. Thursday, December 28, 2017. This outage is necessary to perform software updates required to\u00a0implement a major upgrade to the BUworks hardware and database platform. All BUworks services including time entry&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9578,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17003,795],"tags":[17021],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9578"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111731"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":111733,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111731\/revisions\/111733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}