Project Update: Winter Term with Workday

February 6, 2024

Phase 1 of the Workday Implementation is well underway, focused on Workday Platform, which includes DePauw’s business, finance, human resources, and payroll functions.

During the weeks since project launch in October, the Workday Project Team participated in planning with Workday consultants, engaged in training to learn how Workday works, and completed workbooks detailing DePauw’s current data structures and workflows in our systems that ultimately will replaced by Workday Platform, including e-Services and ADP. 

The team spent their January Winter Term conducting Workday foundation alignment sessions (“FAS”) with Workday consultants. During this stage of the project, they explored a draft version of DePauw’s future Workday environment (or “tenant,” using Workday lingo) that was populated with DePauw data and they previewed early views of revised workflows that are built on modern, standardized business practices. January was an exhausting month, but the team finished energized by the possibilities to come.