Payroll/Personnel System (PPS)

The Payroll/Personnel System (PPS) is the university's human resources and payroll system and contains a wide variety of employee demographic, employment, and payroll data, both current and historical. The primary purpose of PPS is to ensure that all employees are paid properly and in a timely fashion and to support payroll-related reporting requirements of both the university and external agencies.

PPS is centrally maintained at University of California Office of the President in Oakland but operated individually by each campus. Santa Cruz contracts with UCOP to run the PPS system on the UCOP mainframe. A team of programmers at UCOP maintains what is referred to as the "base" PPS. Changes to base PPS occur several times each month. The changes are distributed to each campus, with the campus being responsible for the integration of the changes into its local operational PPS.

PPS is accessed either primarily through a batch interface or through an online interface. The online interface is currently through CICS, although a Web-based browser interface is available for some functions.

Employees are the ultimate customers of PPS, but the users are campus central office personnel (e.g., payroll, human resources, benefits) as well as departmental personnel assistants and other authorized campus staff.

Last Updated: 12/01/2006