Application Development & Salesforce Projects
Projects for Current Academic Year AY2025-2026
| Project Name | Description | Status | Ross IT Team | Sysaid Ticket | Business Case URL | Project Folder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salesforce Expansion Phase II | This phase of our Salesforce Expansion project has two main goals: 1) implementing a FTMBA Admissions process in Salesforce, and 2) modernizing our data infrastructure to support our Unified Student Record (USR), which includes updating security permissions, flows, standardizing processes, and implementing a data storage solution that can grow as we grow. The USR will give Program Offices, CDO, and others a holistic view of each student, allowing them to provide better support to students based on their individual needs and goals. | Complete | Salesforce | |||
| Salesforce Slideroom Expansion | Automatically send BBA application and slideroom IDs to OUA. | Complete | Salesforce | |||
| Software Review Request - Panda Doc | Evaluate for approval the use of Panda Doc to help Executive Education automate / streamline the creation of custom contracts for their corporate programs. | Complete | Salesforce | |||
| Ross Conference Tool Updates | iMpact Application: The Ross Conference Tool (Events Tool) will be updated to a more modern web architecture using updated design elements. | Complete | App Dev | |||
| Accommodation and Exams | iMpact Application: The new service applications/tool has been created to automate the process of bringing data from Simplicity, Wolverine access, and Ross db into one source. This makes data easily available to Lisa Fray and Jane Mason's team. It is in Prod support and maintainance mode. | Complete | App Dev | |||
| AI use in BBA Eval process (Proof of Concept) | AI Project: This project proposes the development and implementation of an AI-assisted application evaluation system to enhance the BBA admissions process. By leveraging UMGPT Tools and LLM, machine learning models, the system will provide evaluator decision support, reduce manual processing time, and increase fairness, transparency, and efficiency in the admissions lifecycle. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| ABL Migration to Salesforce | In Progress | Salesforce | ||||
| Mindful Performance iMpact Tool Enhancements - Phase II | iMpact Application: Mindful performance - Phase II: we are adding the ability for managers to contribute to their employee's Mindful Performance Journals. | Complete | App Dev | |||
| Panda Doc Implementation | Panda Doc Implementation | In Progress | Salesforce | |||
| Redesign Faculty Teaching Load Page | iMpact Applicaiton: FTL - Update faculty profile page and teaching load page to show more detailed information, including teaching hours, banked hours, paid out hours per term. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| Ross AI-xplorer | AI Project: Generative AI Chatbot trained on publicly available information across all Ross websites to assist in retrieving information globally in a questions and answers format. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| AACSB Dashboard enhancements | iMpact Application: This will sync all data fields with other iMpact applications, ensuring all teams are on the same page and providing automated reports. Improve ease of creating the AACSB reports, improve data quality, improve usability of the dashboard. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| Access Management / Mediasite - add an email group for Faculty support to assign. | iMpact Website: An admin tool has been created for users to request access to media sites. This tool creates a Ticket in SysAid and gets assigned to the appropriate administrator for approval. The next enhancement for the application is that the ticket or request should be assigned to Faculty support. The current enhancement will need group assignments. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| Calendar / Events: Room Reservation for student Enhancements, | iMpact Application: Calendar Tool - Enhancements have been requested in the Student Reservation tool. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| Nexus APIs for Ross Data of Students, Faculty and staff | Technology Innovation: This is an innovation in Ross IT data access process, where our own APIs are available to consume in order to access the Ross Data from internal and external applications. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| CDO / 12Twenty related tasks | iMpact Application: The integration of iMpact and the Career Development Office (CDO) requires additional guidelines. Requests from dual degree students, sales track students, non-Ross degree students, business minors, and consortium students must be categorized into distinct student types to ensure they are directed to the appropriate 12/20 sections. Kevin Gates and Lars are collaborating to streamline this process. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| EMBA application checklist integration with Wolverine Access | In Queue | Salesforce | ||||
| Ross Hospitality Updates | iMpact Website: Updates to Ross Hospitality website and daily menu to improve usability and meet accessiblity standards. | In Queue | App Dev | |||
| Google Drive Connect for Salesforce | (new service for MAP -- need description) | New | Salesforce | |||
| Loggin Project placeholder | Maintainance Project: SysAdmins and Developers will be working together to consolidate all the logs on one server and need to meke them easily available. | New | App Dev | |||
| Update Maps in Kiosks | iMapct Website: Update maps and location information in interactive kiosks to reflect changes, especially for those departments moving with the Wyly rennovation. | New | App Dev | |||
| Faculty Teaching Load - Faculty Profile Updates | iMpact Application: FTL project - Roman and HR Teaching load has updates on Profile page for various fields. | New | App Dev | |||
| Faculty Lifecycle Milestone Tracking | Update existing faculty management tools and faculty profile pages to track and display this data. (Note: HR has already designed a mockup for collecting and displaying data.) | New | App Dev | |||
| Bulk email Tool | iMpact Application: Upgrade our in-house bulk email tool in iMpact that has been in use for ~20 years with a modern email server, SMTP replacement, Templates, and Analytics. Team chose teh SenGrid vendor for the enhanments and integration with current tool | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| LEO overload pay | New | App Dev | ||||
| Student Rollup | Cyclicle Project: Rolling up students every year from their academic grades and keeping students journey smooth using Roos tools. | On Going | App Dev | |||
| WordPress Plugin Updates (weekly) | Cyclicle Project: iMpact public wordpress pages need regular maintainance for exsiting or new plugins. Ross IT updates the plugins weekly to leverage new updates and enhancements and security updates from plugin providers | On Going | App Dev | |||
| FAD Updates, CPT Updates | Cyclicle Project: Every year there are some updates needed in Faculty management system as well we Course planning tool | On Going | App Dev |
| Project Name | Description | Status | Ross IT Team | Sysaid Ticket | Business Case URL | Project Folder |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salesforce Expansion Phase II | This phase of our Salesforce Expansion project has two main goals: 1) implementing a FTMBA Admissions process in Salesforce, and 2) modernizing our data infrastructure to support our Unified Student Record (USR), which includes updating security permissions, flows, standardizing processes, and implementing a data storage solution that can grow as we grow. The USR will give Program Offices, CDO, and others a holistic view of each student, allowing them to provide better support to students based on their individual needs and goals. | Complete | Salesforce | |||
| Salesforce Slideroom Expansion | Automatically send BBA application and slideroom IDs to OUA. | Complete | Salesforce | |||
| Software Review Request - Panda Doc | Evaluate for approval the use of Panda Doc to help Executive Education automate / streamline the creation of custom contracts for their corporate programs. | Complete | Salesforce | |||
| Ross Conference Tool Updates | iMpact Application: The Ross Conference Tool (Events Tool) will be updated to a more modern web architecture using updated design elements. | Complete | App Dev | |||
| Accommodation and Exams | iMpact Application: The new service applications/tool has been created to automate the process of bringing data from Simplicity, Wolverine access, and Ross db into one source. This makes data easily available to Lisa Fray and Jane Mason's team. It is in Prod support and maintainance mode. | Complete | App Dev | |||
| AI use in BBA Eval process (Proof of Concept) | AI Project: This project proposes the development and implementation of an AI-assisted application evaluation system to enhance the BBA admissions process. By leveraging UMGPT Tools and LLM, machine learning models, the system will provide evaluator decision support, reduce manual processing time, and increase fairness, transparency, and efficiency in the admissions lifecycle. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| ABL Migration to Salesforce | In Progress | Salesforce | ||||
| Mindful Performance iMpact Tool Enhancements - Phase II | iMpact Application: Mindful performance - Phase II: we are adding the ability for managers to contribute to their employee's Mindful Performance Journals. | Complete | App Dev | |||
| Panda Doc Implementation | Panda Doc Implementation | In Progress | Salesforce | |||
| Redesign Faculty Teaching Load Page | iMpact Applicaiton: FTL - Update faculty profile page and teaching load page to show more detailed information, including teaching hours, banked hours, paid out hours per term. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| Ross AI-xplorer | AI Project: Generative AI Chatbot trained on publicly available information across all Ross websites to assist in retrieving information globally in a questions and answers format. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| AACSB Dashboard enhancements | iMpact Application: This will sync all data fields with other iMpact applications, ensuring all teams are on the same page and providing automated reports. Improve ease of creating the AACSB reports, improve data quality, improve usability of the dashboard. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| Access Management / Mediasite - add an email group for Faculty support to assign. | iMpact Website: An admin tool has been created for users to request access to media sites. This tool creates a Ticket in SysAid and gets assigned to the appropriate administrator for approval. The next enhancement for the application is that the ticket or request should be assigned to Faculty support. The current enhancement will need group assignments. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| Calendar / Events: Room Reservation for student Enhancements, | iMpact Application: Calendar Tool - Enhancements have been requested in the Student Reservation tool. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| Nexus APIs for Ross Data of Students, Faculty and staff | Technology Innovation: This is an innovation in Ross IT data access process, where our own APIs are available to consume in order to access the Ross Data from internal and external applications. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| CDO / 12Twenty related tasks | iMpact Application: The integration of iMpact and the Career Development Office (CDO) requires additional guidelines. Requests from dual degree students, sales track students, non-Ross degree students, business minors, and consortium students must be categorized into distinct student types to ensure they are directed to the appropriate 12/20 sections. Kevin Gates and Lars are collaborating to streamline this process. | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| EMBA application checklist integration with Wolverine Access | In Queue | Salesforce | ||||
| Ross Hospitality Updates | iMpact Website: Updates to Ross Hospitality website and daily menu to improve usability and meet accessiblity standards. | In Queue | App Dev | |||
| Google Drive Connect for Salesforce | (new service for MAP -- need description) | New | Salesforce | |||
| Loggin Project placeholder | Maintainance Project: SysAdmins and Developers will be working together to consolidate all the logs on one server and need to meke them easily available. | New | App Dev | |||
| Update Maps in Kiosks | iMapct Website: Update maps and location information in interactive kiosks to reflect changes, especially for those departments moving with the Wyly rennovation. | New | App Dev | |||
| Faculty Teaching Load - Faculty Profile Updates | iMpact Application: FTL project - Roman and HR Teaching load has updates on Profile page for various fields. | New | App Dev | |||
| Faculty Lifecycle Milestone Tracking | Update existing faculty management tools and faculty profile pages to track and display this data. (Note: HR has already designed a mockup for collecting and displaying data.) | New | App Dev | |||
| Bulk email Tool | iMpact Application: Upgrade our in-house bulk email tool in iMpact that has been in use for ~20 years with a modern email server, SMTP replacement, Templates, and Analytics. Team chose teh SenGrid vendor for the enhanments and integration with current tool | In Progress | App Dev | |||
| LEO overload pay | New | App Dev | ||||
| Student Rollup | Cyclicle Project: Rolling up students every year from their academic grades and keeping students journey smooth using Roos tools. | On Going | App Dev | |||
| WordPress Plugin Updates (weekly) | Cyclicle Project: iMpact public wordpress pages need regular maintainance for exsiting or new plugins. Ross IT updates the plugins weekly to leverage new updates and enhancements and security updates from plugin providers | On Going | App Dev | |||
| FAD Updates, CPT Updates | Cyclicle Project: Every year there are some updates needed in Faculty management system as well we Course planning tool | On Going | App Dev |
