Kuali People Management for the Enterprise Launched

BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 8, 2010 /PRNewswire/ — Kuali People Management for the

Enterprise (KPME) has been launched as a new project under the Kuali Foundation
with three founding partners. KPME will be an open-source, comprehensive
HR/Payroll system built for Higher Ed, by Higher Ed and its collaborative
commercial partners, using the proven Kuali model for multi-institution,
community source development with commercial support.

KPME is launching with Indiana University, Iowa State University and VivanTech
as founding partners. It is being developed using the same investment model that
created the successful Kuali Financial System, and additional partners may join
for specific components or for all components. Like KFS, KPME anticipates
growing to 8-10 investing institutions. Partners will have strong influence on
the development of KPME, will have decision-making authority through a seat on
the KPME Board, and will have the opportunity to develop a knowledge base which
reduces implementation costs.

Along with the Kuali Financial System (KFS), Kuali Coeus for Research
Administration, and Kuali Student, the launch of KPME fills in a roadmap for a
complete set of freely available, enterprise-scale administrative system
solutions for higher education. Kuali components are independent, modular
systems and are suitable for integration with other Kuali or non-Kuali systems
to provide solutions for colleges and universities of all sizes.

KPME will have several key components including:

– Payroll and Paycalc engine
– HR Core Transactions, which leverage Kuali Rice Workflow, including
Position Activities, Person Activities, Employee Activities, and Labor
Ledger Processing
– Benefits Administration
– Position Management
– Time/Attendance
– Leave Management
– Other value-added components

The first KPME module, Time and Attendance, is set for public release in July
2011. It is part of a complete vision and roadmap for the human resources
management needs of colleges and universities. The roadmap can be found at:
http://kuali.org/kpme. The components will be rolled out modularly over a period
of 1-3 years. The timing will depend upon resources allocated by the partners.

For further information, please contact the Chair of the KPME Project Board,
Maury Hope, at mmhope@iastate.edu.

Kuali is a growing community of universities, colleges, businesses, and other
organizations that have partnered to build and sustain community source software
for higher education, by higher education. The software of Kuali projects is
freely available under the Educational Community License to anyone for any use
or modification. More information on Kuali is found at http://www.kuali.org.

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SOURCE Kuali Foundation