WSU’s human resources, payroll, and financial systems were considered modern mainframe applications when developed in the 1980s, over 35 years ago. These legacy processes and systems are paperwork-heavy, time-consuming, and increasingly risk-prone. Join us this winter to learn more about the effort to roll out Workday software university-wide

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 […]

Earlier this month in a letter to the WSU community, President Kirk Schulz provided an update on the Modernization Initiative project including timeline, cost, and what the WSU community should expect moving forward.  Read the full letter from President Schulz here. As we continue to improve the University’s fiscal standing, we simultaneously must address the […]

Strategic Integration Partner- Deloitte Earlier this month, WSU completed a competitive RFP process for a strategic integration partner to help implement Workday across the university. We are pleased to announce that Deloitte has been selected as the apparent successful integration firm. The selection was reached through the evaluation of written proposals performed by the 13-member […]

Contract Negotiations with Workday After a competitive and thorough procurement process, WSU named Workday as the apparent successful software vendor. WSU will be joining a large number of universities who use or are implementing Workday to support their core finance, payroll and human services activities, including: Cornell University, Arizona State University, Louisiana State University, Brown, […]