STAR Upgrade Project
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Glossary of Relevant Terms
| Activity | Series of actions that make up a process |
| Arrears | An Amount owed to the employer as the result of a deduction not fully taken |
| Benefit Plan | A specific benefit offering within a plan type |
| Benefit Plan Type | A benefit category such as health, life, savings |
| Benefits Program | A collection of benefits plans for which an employee is eligible |
| Business Title | Title that goes with the position, not the individual (includes campus extension/address) |
| Child | Node that is a subset of the parent node |
| Display | Display Mode. Enables you to view information in certain pages, but not update the rows online. The fields will appear gray on the page. |
| Drill Down | Go down to the next level of detail in a set of data |
| Effective Date | Method of dating information in the system (allows predating actions) |
| Employee Type | Hourly: Students, Staff Temporary/On-Call/Part-time
don't work the same number of hours each pay period |
| End User | Person who uses PeopleSoft to perform tasks |
| Enterprise | All of the business units in the organization |
| ERP | Enterprise Resource Planning (coordinated and integrated approach to system development) |
| Flat Amount | Specific dollar amount (not a percentage) |
| Flat Rate | Premium with a specified dollar amount |
| Gross Up | Process used to calculate taxes and resultant gross pay from a check for an exact net amount |
| Help | You can access online help by pressing the F1 key. When you’re in a page, tab to the field in question and press F1. This takes you into the on-line PeopleBooks help menus. (You can access online help by clicking on the Help link in the upper right hand corner. This takes you into the on-line PeopleBooks help menus.) |
| High level | Overview, not a lot of detail |
| Imputed Income | Non cash taxable benefits |
| Iteration | Repetition |
| Job Code | Title (required field) Identities jobs (usually one to many relationship) |
| Legacy | Existing system |
| Level | Logical division in the security tree hierarchy |
| Metrics | How results are measured |
| Node | An individual organizational entity on the security tree |
| OLAP | On-line Analytical Processing (multidimensional analysis of application data performed interactively |
| Parent | A node with other nodes reporting to it |
| Pay Group | A set of employees grouped together for payroll processing |
| Pay Line | Record containing standard payroll information for an employee |
| Pay Sheet | Repository for raw data needed to calculate pay for employees (earnings, hours, deductions, taxes and accounting data) |
| Position Code | Not a required field (8 digit - alpha numeric) one to one relationship |
| Process | Business function |
| RUG | Regional Users Group |
| Roles | Describes how people fit into work flow |
| Role Users | Persons assigned to perform roles |
| Routing | Connects information to people |
| Rules | Company's business practices captured in software |
| Run ID | Code that identifies a run control for batch processes |
| Scope | Close up view of immediate project |
| Screens and Pages | These words are interchangeable. Both refer to the current computer screen you are viewing. PeopleSoft screens are referred to as pages. |
| Sibling | Nodes at the same level and subsets of the parent node |
| SIG | Special Interest Group |
| Shadow System | A system set up by a user to provide additional data not provided by the main system |
| Sponsor | Person who owns the project |
| STAR | Project to implement PeopleSoft Version 8.8 Human Resources for Education and Government |
| Step | Actions that complete an activity |
| Translate Table | A system edit table that stores codes and translate values for miscellaneous fields on the database |
| Unsheet | Pay Sheet erased |
| Vanilla | No modifications |
| Vision | Long range view |