Cal Answers updates before BAIRS retirement on 12/22

November 14, 2018

Cal Answers Financials and BAIRS Community,

We’ve now completed all the releases necessary to transition from BAIRS to Cal Answers. BAIRS will remain available  through December 21. On December 22, 2018we will close down BAIRS and the system will no longer be accessible. These last few weeks are your final opportunity to use Cal Answers while BAIRS is still available, so please take the opportunity to transition to Cal Answers now.

We’re pleased to announce that we’ve implemented new updates to the Cal Answers Financials dashboards, based on user feedback. These are the final updates before BAIRS retirement in December.

Updates include

Join us at Cal Assessment Network (CAN) on December 7

Save the date and join us on Friday, December 7 from 10:30am-12pm to celebrate BAIRS retirement and CAN’s 100th session. We’ll be presenting an overview of the Cal Answers Financials dashboards, helpful resources for dashboards and ad hoc, and outlining what to expect in the new year after BAIRS is retired. There will be an opportunity to ask questions and celebrate this huge milestone in improving the campus reporting environment.

Training resources

Access

Learn more about Finance access and which dashboards are included by visiting the access page on the Cal Answers website.

Questions

If you have questions about using Cal Answers, please contact the Cal Answers Help Desk at 664-9000 (option 1, then option 2) or calanswers-help@berkeley.edu

Thank you,

Cal Answers Financials Team

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Office of the Vice Chancellor of Finance