BFS Business Systems

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It is our mission to offer a system with a user-friendly and intuitive interface; provide management-level reports with the highest area of focus to support decision-making; strive for a integrated and state-of-the-art financials system with campus-wide standardized business processes; ensure that the underlying databases and infrastructure are updated with defined and automated maintenance and enhancement cycles; support our financial system with a high-skilled and knowledgable workforce capable of seeing the big picture while delivering solutions for immediate issues.

Contact

BFS Security

secbfs@berkeley.edu

GL Systems

bfs@berkeley.edu

Resources

Chart of Accounts Information

Other Campus Business Systems

System Access Review page (SAR)

Upload journals to BFS using a spreadsheet journal (PDF)

bSecure Remote Access VPN

Log in to BFS (VPN Required)
Getting Started with BFS
BFS Training
BFS Ten Year Road Map
BFS Support
Other Campus Business Systems

BFS Updates

BFS

  • Supports three separate entities - UC Berkeley, Berkeley Foundation, Center for Executive Education, with supplemental activity for UCOP
  • Eleven PeopleSoft modules-General Ledger, Accounts Payable, Procurement, Accounts Receivable, Billing, eBill, Budget with custom Position Resource Tracking system, Commitment Control, Grants, Contracts and Project Costing
  • Accounts Payable - 12 batch feeder systems
  • General Ledger- 20 batch feeder systems
  • Billing – 42 departments entering in bills, 2 have automated interfaces, but all can use standard upload template
  • 1 major upgrade every 12-18 months
  • 1-2 enhancement releases annually
  • 4 critical patch updates annually
  • Provide support for:
    • 3,502 Active Users
    • 126 Business Processes across 9 Functional Areas
    • 181 Interfaces
    • 64 Allocations
    • 13 Trees

Security

  • SARA - custom application to manage access requests for nine applications; designed as a "short-term" solution in 2002
  • BFS security changes recently automated (reduced manually processed security tickets by 50%)
  • Security Help Desk for campus access issues
  • Recently automated quarterly system access review for Divisional Finance Leaders for seven applications