CORNELL UNIVERSITY

Challenges

• Needed a flexible system that matches the way the university is run
• Had to address financial challenges as a result of the recession
• Needed to streamline administrative functions in order to free up resources to put towards core missions

Solutions

• Workday Human Capital Management, Payroll, Cloud Connect for Benefits
• Consolidation of administrative Human Resources and Payroll operations into a unified shared service environment which better addresses the quick pace of hiring that goes on when large research awards are granted
• User interface is intuitive and easy to use, enabling employee self service
• Can move forward faster without being bogged down by difficult and time-consuming upgrades

Results

• Human resources team will lower its transaction costs and be able to focus more of its resources on core missions due to employee and manager self-service
• Lower maintenance costs and less complexity with software-as-a-service delivery model will reduce burden on IT

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"Workday allows us to do a lot of things in human resources that we haven't been able to do to date. A major benefit is that we can move forward faster. We aren't bogged down by difficult and time-consuming upgrades."
Mary Opperman
Vice President of Human Resources

Once called "the first American university" by educational historian Frederick Rudolph, Cornell University represents a distinctive mix of eminent scholarship and democratic ideals. Adding practical subjects to the classics and admitting qualified students regardless of nationality, race, social circumstance, gender, or religion was quite a departure when Cornell was founded in 1865. www.cornell.edu

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