Student Information System Services

The Student Information System Services (SISS) team provides development support to all Universities of Wisconsin campuses. Our developers create and maintain central applications used by all campuses. We also have developers who are dedicated to specific campus partners.

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Our Services

  • Central Applications Development – We provide central applications development and support for software such as EPCS, CDR, MAAD, and others.
  • Dedicated Support for Campuses – We have developers who are dedicated to specific universities. We currently have dedicated developers at:
    • UW-Green Bay
    • UW Oshkosh
    • UW-Parkside
    • UW-River Falls
    • UW-Superior
  • Project Support – Don’t need a dedicated developer? We can help your campus on a project basis. Fluid, Canvas Integration, and Delegated Access are a few examples of projects that our team has supported.

Detailed Central Applications Service Catalog

Central Applications Development and Support
  • 1098T – The 1098T software is used to send the 1098T data in the correct format to UWSA’s Vendor MicroDynamics Group.
  • Address Cleansing – Address Cleansing is a suite of add-ons for PeopleSoft that provides automatic correction and standardization of address fields, using Runner Technologies’ CLEAN_Address.
  • CDR – The Office of Policy Analysis and Research (OPAR) acquires data through the management of the Central Data Request (CDR). The CDR is a system-wide data collection effort involving a wide variety of areas, including admissions, student enrollment, financial aid, and curricular activity.
  • EPCS – EPCS (Electronic Application to PeopleSoft Conversion System) interface for importing data from the UW System/Learning Innovations EAPP (Electronic Application) into PeopleSoft Campus Solutions.
  • FFWS – The group issuing the Fund For Wisconsin Scholars (FFWS) has requested a report detailing continuing eligibility for all students receiving funds from the FFWS scholarship. All UW Higher Education institutions will be required to generate and submit a report on all students who have a disbursed award linked to this program.
  • FICA – The SIS Services team provides the FICA Extract to help UW campuses report FICA Waiver eligibility information to HRS.
  • MAAD – Multiple Applications and Admissions Data (MAAD) includes data that identify and describe students who have applied for undergraduate enrollment at one of the University of Wisconsin System institutions. It records data on a monthly basis about the applicants and the admission actions taken on each application.
  • PICH – PICH stands for Person Hub – IAM – Campus – HRS. PICH retrieves HRS data from the Identity Access Management system and delivers it to campus systems via Integration Broker.
  • PIP – NRT – PIP – (PeopleSoft to IAA Provisioning) interface between campus instances of Campus Solutions and the UW System IAA (Identification, Authentication, and Authorization) system.
  • TIS – Integration support for the Transferology credit transfer tool
  • PRISM – Support and maintenance of legacy UW-Colleges information system
ATP Integrations
  • CAC Bolt-On Changes
  • CDR SQR Updates
  • OAuth – All web service integrations that utilize the API’s built and provided by the Enterprise Integration team require the use of a provided Client ID and Client Secret to produce an oAuth token that is used as authentication and authorization for access to the API endpoints and data.
  • Financial Data Model (FDM)
    • Chartfield Clear – The Chartfield Clear Process will delete all the existing data from the chart field configuration tables in preparation for the new chart field data to be imported. 
    • FDM Loader – The FDM Loader reloads the SIS chartfield configuration table with data values supplied by Workday Finance.
    • Cost Center Hierarchy Importer – The Cost Center Hierarchy importer is an extension of the FDM Loader.
    • FDM Validator
  • Federal Work Study (FWS)
    • Federal Work Study (Outbound) – This interface sends Federal Work Study awards to Workday.
    • Federal Work Study (Inbound) – This interface sends award usage back to SIS where it will be displayed on a screen.
  • General Ledger (GL)
    • GL Journal SIS Outbound – This process will select all of the required data from the student financials accounting entries table, load into staging record, perform some transformations to prepare the data for writing to a file and then create and write to the outbound file.
    • Item Type Loader – Updates existing item types with new GL Interface values.
    • Waiver/Write-Off Process
  • Refunding
    • SIS Refunds (Outbound) – Process that creates a .csv file containing all of the currently posted refund transactions for students and/or parents.
    • SIS Refunds (Inbound) – Process to automate receiving Workday payment data to be used for reconciliation processes.
  • Person API Stream Service (PASS) – PASS is designed to replace PICH and interface with Workday.  Workday will send person data to the Person Hub.
  • POST-PASS – POST PASS is designed to replace POST PICH processing of the incoming HR Data from the Person Hub.  POST PASS processes the data as per the business logic and loads the person data into delivered PeopleSoft tables or College specific custom tables.
  • PIP-NRT/Batch Updates – (PeopleSoft to IAA Provisioning) interface between campus instances of Campus Solutions and the UW System IAA (Identification, Authentication, and Authorization) system.
  • Supervisory Organization – Retrieves and stores UW supervisory organizations structure.

Central Applications Maintenance Release Schedule

We are utilizing a maintenance release schedule for our central applications. Instead of releasing individual fixes and improvements on an ad-hoc basis, we’ll bundle items together and release them in a more structured timeline. This approach will help us deliver improvements more consistently while minimizing disruptions to each application. It also provides clearer timelines for campuses and gives us a better way to prioritize and plan more effectively. All applications included in our Detailed Central Applications Service Catalog (above) will follow this schedule.

Maintenance Release Schedule

Starting in September 2025:

  • Central applications that have maintenance work completed will be released on the first Monday of each month.
    • If the first Monday is a legal holiday, we will release the next available business day.
  • These releases will mainly include non-urgent items that have been identified.
  • If high-level issues are identified, they will be addressed on an ad-hoc basis.

To view items ready for an application’s next maintenance release:


Outstanding Central Application Bugs

Note: You’ll need to be on a UW VPN to view this dashboard.


Frequently Asked Questions

How will I know where my ticket is at progress wise?

We are utilizing the ticket Status field to note the progress a ticket has. Here is a breakdown of what each ticket status means with respect to the development cycle:

Note: Incidents and Service Requests have different Status values available for use – you can determine if your ticket is an Incident or a Service Request based on the prefix (IN vs SR)

Ticket TypeTicket StatusDevelopment Cycle Status
Incident
(IN ######)
Logged :
Active :
Waiting on Resolution** :
Resolved/Closed :
Items that are waiting to be developed
Development in progress
Development completed, waiting for the official version release
Development version released
Service Request
(SR #####)
Submitted :
Active :
Pending Approval** :
Fulfilled/Closed :
Items that are waiting to be developed
Development in progress
Development completed, waiting for the official version release
Development version released

** When a development item is completed but is awaiting its official release, you will be able to view the version it will be released in at the start of the description of your request. ** 

Currently submitted bugs can be viewed on the SIS Team’s Reported Bug Dashboard.

Currently submitted enhancement requests can be viewed on the SIS Team’s Enhancement Requests Dashboar