Our new UC Ready planning tool (a newly-released upgrade of the former Berkeley Continuity Planning Tool) has been accepted by the Kuali Foundation as its first offering in the area of disaster-preparedness.

The Kuali Foundation is a consortium of universities that develops enterprise software for higher education, using the community-source approach.  Utilizing the programming resources of its member institutions, Kuali adopts, develops, and maintains administrative software applications.  Its products are offered at no cost to any institution of higher education.

The use of Kuali software enables potentially-huge cost savings for adopting institutions.  In addition, Kuali applications are tailored by and for higher education, and will potentially become important standards.

Kuali currently offers a financial system, a research administration system, and is developing a student services package.  Its research administration system (Kuali Coeus) is currently in use here on the Berkeley campus.  The Kuali Financial System is being installed at UC Davis.  And the nascent Kuali Student Services package is being piloted here at Berkeley.

Under the leadership of CIO Shel Waggener, Berkeley is currently forming a group of 5-6 universities to partner in the preparation of the UC Ready software for adoption by Kuali.  That preparation primarily involves the re-writing of the UC Ready code in an open-source language.