HIGHER EDUCATION

Manage Your Administrative Systems with SaaS Solutions

The administrative systems currently running at most colleges and universities were designed decades ago. Due to the inflexibility of these now antiquated technologies, institutions have been forced to cobble together disparate systems to address their evolving administrative needs. These costly, rigid systems simply cannot keep up with the rate of change facing today’s institutions.

Customer Case Study: Georgetown University Datasheet: Higher Education

Workday offers a better alternative. Workday’s single, unified administrative solution includes key components that stay current with your institution’s changing needs:

Human Resources
Talent Management
Benefits
Payroll
Financials
Spend Management

Workday is partnering with top institutions to develop the administrative platform today’s institutions need for faculty management, budgeting, and more—all built on the proven foundation of Workday’s Human Resources and Financials solutions.

SaaS: Predictability Leads to Savings

Across higher education, the economic downturn is impacting endowments, operational budgets are being reduced accordingly, and administrative staffs are forced to do more with less. SaaS is quickly becoming recognized in all markets as a lower cost and more efficient delivery model for administrative systems.

SaaS gives institutions predictable operational expenditures that can be budgeted and paid for as they are utilized. In addition, SaaS agreements are not perpetual—all renewals must be earned by Workday, which ensures customers will continue to receive cost effective, high value, and innovative solutions.

Free Up Your IT Team

Workday manages all the traditional IT-related aspects of administrative systems: upgrades, patch applications, integrations, data security, system availability, backup, disaster recovery, performance tuning, operating system, database, network, storage, and system maintenance. As a result, IT teams can spend more time focusing on academic systems that help further the main mission of their college or university.

Configure the Systems for Your Institution

Unlike legacy systems that require you to conform to a limited set of rigid hierarchies, Workday supports multiple dynamic organizational structures that allow institutions to accurately represent and update their organizations and operations in real time.

Workday also delivers more than 150 pre-built, optimized business processes that enable institutions to standardize on industry best practices. If your institution has unique needs, the processes and controls can be configured and specialized for any specific organization with a few clicks of the mouse. All of these options are fluid and adaptable—you will never again be locked into a framework that does not work for you or your institution.

Empower Your Users

Workday delivers a modern interface that utilizes consumer Internet constructs such as hyperlinks, icons, pictures, buttons, instant messaging, embedded help, and search boxes. Faculty, staff, and executives can all use the system with minimal training from anywhere in the world with an Internet connection and a browser.

Workday is also available for the iPhone, BlackBerry, and all smartphones with a browser.