Glossary

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BAAS	Berkeley Affirmative Action System: reporting system for staff and applicant affirmative action data (captured by ATS)
BAIRS	Berkeley Administrative Initiative Reporting System: reporting environments for the Berkeley Financial System and HCM
Beneficiary	The person(s) you designate to receive a benefit upon your death. A beneficiary can be any person, persons, or entity capable of taking and holding property. Depending on the insurance, retirement, and/or savings plans in which you are enrolled, you have a number of opportunities to designate beneficiaries.
Berkeley Job Builder	An online application for viewing job standards and creating pre-populated job description templates. The Berkeley Job Builder replaces the Job Mapping Tool (2006 and 2007) and the Job Family Matrices (2006 and 2007) that were formerly on the Career Compass website.
BFS	Berkeley Financial System: PeopleSoft financial application in use at Berkeley for Accounts Payable, Purchasing, General Ledger and other financial operations
BIBS	Berkeley Integrated Budget and Staffing System: application that tracks permanent and temporary budget as well as permanently budgeted positions for Berkeley
BIS	Berkeley Information Systems: data warehouse for central administrative systems such as BFS and HCM