eMARS Newsletter

The eMARS Newsletter will be used to disseminate information to agency users on the changes coming with implementation of the new system. 

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Agency Implementation Guide Kick-Off Meeting Scheduled
October 18 - 19 the eMARS Agency Implementation Team will be providing an overview of the Agency Implementation Guide (AIG) Release One Key dates and next steps...

CRC Schedule Change
The Customer Resource Center (CRC) has reduced its hours of operation to allow...

FY2006 Closeout Schedule
The closeout schedule for fiscal year 2006 will be modified from the normal MARS closeout schedule…

eMARS Technical Requirements for User Workstations
eMARS is a Web-enabled, browser-based system that runs on a Unix (AIX) platform.  That means that the only software an authorized user needs…

Accounting Templates/Profiles
eMARS provides the ability to store valid combinations of accounting elements in order to ease the coding requirements…

eMARS Front-End Split Functionality for Federal Grants
eMARS will utilize a front-end split routine for its federal grants. Front-end split will improve budgeting…

eMARS Workflow
Document approval processing provides a powerful, automated means of routing documents through Advantage Workflow to groups of users…

Reporting in eMARS
A new reporting application, InfoAdvantage, will be introduced as part of the switch to eMARS.  InfoAdvantage employs a software product called Business Objects (BO), for creating reports…

eMARS Conversion Overview
Conversion is the transfer of data from the old administrative system (MARS) to the new system…

Document Type Definitions (DTDs) are available!
As a part of our interface support to the agencies, COT has created Document Type Definitions (DTDs) for the XML samples…