The ElevateR
Elevate's newsletter, the ElevateR is the best resource for staying up-to-date on our implementation of Workday. Each issue of the ElevateR features a message and program update from Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning, Jack Blanchard, as well as event reminders, Workday terms, details on Workday's functionality, and FAQs.
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- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
Workday’s Go Live date of July 1, 2023 is fast approaching. I, along with the Elevate Program team, have been meeting with Divisions and Colleges to assist units to prepare for Workday. Importantly, end-user training for Workday will begin in April 2023.
Behind the scenes, our functional and technical teams are running thousands of scenarios to test the configured Workday system, integrations, and… - Message from Elevate’s Executive Sponsors:
Elevate and its implementation of Workday is the largest software deployment program in the history of the University of Maryland. As executive sponsors of this program, we appreciate the monumental effort and exceptional level of collaboration from the many staff and faculty contributing to the success of this project.
One of the pillars of the University’s new strategic plan, Fearlessly Forward, In Pursuit of Excellence and Impact…
- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
Our July 2023 Go Live date may have felt like a distant future for some, but we are fast approaching the launch of our new Finance and Human Capital Management systems in Workday, with approximately ten months to go. So much has been accomplished over the past year and a half, with much more to do in the coming months. As you begin your academic year, the Elevate Team will be hard at…
- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
The Elevate Program is officially less than a year out from our Go Live date for our Human Capital Management and Finance modules. We remain on track to go live with these new systems on July 1, 2023. Leadership teams across our campuses are being encouraged to work with their staff and faculty to plan now for the substantial impacts of this historic transition to a new ERP system (for example,…
- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
The Elevate Program is approaching a notable milestone - at the end of this month we will complete the “Configure and Prototype” Phase of the program.
Held Customer Confirmation Sessions to finalize input from 300+ stakeholders across our campuses Configured the Workday application Built integrations and…
During this phase, the team: - Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
As of this month, Elevate has reached a major milestone: signoff from our business owners on the design of all 19 Workday modules. This signoff represents a tremendous amount of work from our HCM, Finance, and Budget functional teams to document the Workday design, review with business owners, and incorporate their feedback. The Elevate team will now begin working on…
- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
On March 30, the Elevate team successfully completed an important milestone in our implementation of Workday: Unit Testing. This involved testing specific, discrete “actions” in Workday (e.g. Requesting Time Off). Our Human Capital Management and Finance teams completed over 2,500 unit tests over the course of 5 weeks, helping to identify and resolve any issues or defects, ultimately resulting in a stronger…
- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
Since the start of 2022 we have conducted a series of public presentations to inform and prepare our diverse campus communities about Workday. Between the first Workday Functional Overview in February and our Elevate Town Hall in March, we had over 1,300 staff, faculty, and students attend these public events. If you missed either of these events you can view videos of these…
- Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
February marks the one year anniversary of the Elevate Program’s official kickoff. Since then, we’ve hired 49 full-time staff from the Maryland community, successfully completed two phases of our Workday implementation, and completed 80 percent of the human resources and finance modules design of our new ERP system.
Notably, our team completed the last of our Customer Confirmation Sessions in early… - Message from Jack J. Blanchard, Associate Provost for Enterprise Resource Planning:
Looking back on 2021 we had a productive and successful first year of the Elevate Program. We met all of our Program milestones and progressed from planning to making significant design decisions and developing major aspects of the new Workday system’s configuration. Our implementation of Workday Human Capital Management (HCM) and Finance remains on schedule and on budget.
We are currently in…