Profile: The University of Nebraska Foundation is a not-for-profit organization independent of the University that collects private donations and distributes those funds across the different university campuses. The Foundation manages over $1 billion in assets and collects over $50 million in donations each year.

Problem/Opportunity: The current system that campuses use to request funds from the Foundation is effective but not efficient. It does not take advantage of improved technologies and, as a result, considerable time can elapse between the initial request for the funds and the final receipt. Additional time is required for adequately auditing the system.

Solution: The J.D. Edwards Design Studio Team is creating a web-based system for the University campuses to request transfers and payments from their Foundation funds electronically. This will increase overall efficiency while reducing the volume of paper-based requests.

The proposed online system will:

1. Provide an interface for University campuses to request funds electronically from the Foundation
2. Provide automated fund availability information upon transfer request
3. Provide internal Foundation auditors with a digital audit trail for each request.
4. Integrate with the existing NU Foundation Online system and the Foundation's accounting information system.

Technologies:

J2EE 1.4
Eclipse IDE 3.0.1
Apache Tomcat 5.0.x
IBM DB2 8.1