Communications
Communications
Email and Social Announcements
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Welcome to Workday |
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Dear Colleagues: We are pleased to announce that the University has selected Workday enterprise resource planning (ERP) as the replacement for our current Oracle system. Workday is a cloud-based platform that provides seamless functionality and will allow us to transform our financial and human resources business processes to better serve our faculty, staff, and student employees. We are replacing RIT’s ERP because our current system, Oracle eBiz, was implemented in 1998 and is approaching end of life. Oracle moved to a minimum support model in January 2022 for our version of eBiz; the cost of this model increases each year, includes only maintenance/compliance patches, and will eventually be discontinued by the vendor. The decision to select Workday resulted from a rigorous and collaborative process involving input from numerous stakeholders across the University. We thank everyone who participated in the selection process, including the Executive Steering Committee (ESC), the System Evaluation Team (SET), and the many participants who joined the vendor demonstrations. We realize this was a significant time commitment but also necessary for robust decision-making. RIT’s Workday conversion project, also known as Operation Tiger Cloud, will take place over the next two years, with a planned go-live in early 2026. It will rely upon many administrative and academic subject matter experts from across campus. While it will require all of our efforts to make this project a success, with that effort comes tremendous opportunity: Workday will enable the University to make a technological leap forward, bringing modern and efficient tools to help support all faculty and staff at RIT. We encourage you to stay connected to the project and support the team working to bring this transformational change to RIT. The Tiger Cloud project website is one of multiple mechanisms that will be used for communication. Please refer to it to stay apprised of project timelines, milestones, and other fundamental information. We are excited to imagine RIT as a Workday University. Thank you for everything you do. David Munson James Watters |
