What will the CAMS Portal be used for?
The Portal has been specifically developed by the CAMS Implementation Team to suit the needs of the NIST CAMS administrative user community. The NIST CAMS Portal will provide users with a user-friendly central location to retrieve timely financial management and accounting information. In addition, the Portal will provide users with commitment tracking ability. Examples of data elements to be accessed in the Portal are summary balance information, ACCS, document numbers, quantities, dollar amounts, and vendor names. The Portal will contain a day-old copy of CAMS/CFS Production data as well as data entered through established interfaces. The majority of commitment and obligation data will be automatically uploaded into the Data Warehouse database via various interfaces, reducing the number of manual reconciliations. A small amount of commitment data will be entered manually via the Portal, which will include funds checking capability. See the Portal Fact Sheet for more information on th
