ASTRA (Access to Systems, Tools, Resources and Applications) is an authorization system that stores information about who can use a wide variety of administrative applications and tools across the UW campus. Authorization, using ASTRA, sets limits on:

• Access to systems (such as SAGE, Financial Desktop, OWLS, eProcurement, FS-WORKS, etc.)
• Actions (update, inquiry, etc.)
• Access restrictions (budgets, organization codes, dollar limits, PUC's, FacNum's, etc.)

Through ASTRA's Web interface, users:

• Manage authorizations online
• See who has authority to use a system

Administrative applications interact with the ASTRA database to find out if a person is authorized to use that particular system.

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• Not sure who to contact for authorization?
  Go to the ASTRA application page where you can click on "Who can authorize me?"
  to discover the appropriate Authorizer's contact information.
  
• Click on "Show me my authorizations" to view a list of your own current, active authorizations.