Wake Forest University transitioned from a heavily customized, on-premises legacy platform that suffered from unpredictable upgrade paths. By moving to Workday, the university eliminated infrastructure worries and shifted focus toward strategic goals. This transformation ensures the institution stays future-ready through consistent, predictable releases twice a year.
Empowering students with a seamless digital journey.
The university prioritized a functionally driven deployment to ensure the new platform met the actual needs of the community. Students now experience a transformative registration process through Saved Schedules, which delivers equal opportunity for all students to enroll in necessary classes. Essential academic tasks, such as requesting transcripts, have been reduced from complex hurdles to digital actions that take mere seconds.
Workday is super fast and efficient when it comes to registering. It allows me as a student to focus on the things that are important, like graduating.
Dominic Waugh, Student
Driving innovation with Workday Extend and AI.
Wake Forest uses Workday Extend to create custom apps like student advisor assignments and graduation applications that inherit native security and remain within the familiar Workday environment. By automating repetitive tasks, the university simplifies complex processes and reduces risk. This enables faculty and staff to spend less time on manual operations and more time on their primary mission: educating the whole student.
Workday has emerged as the leader in enterprise people-centric AI, which very much aligns with our institutional values of pro humanitate.
Vice President for Information Technology and Chief Information Officer