WSU’s Technology Makeover – WSU Insider

In the early 1980s, the groundbreaking Commodore-64 home computer with its 64 kilobytes of memory was released and “ET: The Extraterrestrial” was becoming one of the brightest stars in film history. That same period, Washington State University launched its new technology system for human resources, payroll and finances.

Now, nearly 40 years later, WSU has grown from a single campus in Pullman to five campuses statewide. And if E.T. came back to earth, he could phone home with a 256-megabyte smart phone.

But at WSU the underlying technological infrastructure for critical administrative systems remains largely the same, though that’s now about to change.

Read the full article in the WSU Insider, published on August 22, 2018.