Welcome

Welcome to the Workday@Yale Newsletter, your one-stop shop update for all Workday@Yale activities!


Program Office Update

A Note from Nancy Creel-Gross…


Just over one year ago, the Workday@Yale Program officially kicked off the transition from Yale’s legacy systems to Workday, a unified Human Capital Management (HCM), Payroll and Finance solution uniquely designed for the needs of higher education. Read More

Recent News

Program Team Announcements


Human Capital Management (HCM), Payroll and Faculty Support Teams

The Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), Payroll and Faculty Support teams recently completed reviews of the Release 1 Prototype (P1). Read More

Finance

The Workday Finance team business process design sessions are well underway and the team continues to make progress in the design of future state business processes and the development of business process maps. Read More

Reporting

In June, the Reporting team attended Prototype 1 (P1) business process review sessions and collaborated with other team members to explore how Yale data will function in the new Workday system. Read More

Change Management

Throughout June, the Change Management (CM) team participated in the finance business process design sessions and the Human Capital Management (HCM) business process review sessions for the first prototype (P1). Read More

Community Engagement

Engaging the Yale Campus


Clerical and Technical Community Members Attend Workday at Yale Program Overview Sessions

Members of the Workday@Yale Team recently presented overview sessions of the Workday@Yale program as part of the Summer Training Program for Clerical and Technical Employees. Corey Rossman, HR/Payroll Team member, presented the June 12th session on the medical campus, assisted by team member Christine Viele. Dick Bascom, Workday at Yale Change Management Team Lead, presented the session hosted by Yale Shared Services at Science Park on July 10th. Attendees were introduced to the Workday application Home page, the Workday at Yale Program implementation timeline, and a discussion of general changes to expect for April 2015. Look for similar Workday at Yale Program overviews to be offered to the Yale community as we move into the fall term.

 
IT Partners Community Members Attend "Tech Talk" Sessions

The Workday@Yale Technology Team recently hosted several “Tech Talks” focused on communicating the impacts of upcoming changes to the “people”  dimension of Yale’s institutional data. Shane Anderson, Yale ITS Director for Solution Architecture,  lead discussions with members of the IT Partners Group, representing a broad cross-section of the university,  who use people data in and among a wide variety of information systems as part of their school or departments’ business. The group learned about potential Impacts to systems connecting to the current Oracle or Data Warehouse systems as a portion of the data concerning people moves into the Workday environment.

If you have questions regarding people data, or would like to discuss a potential impact, please contact the Workday program through the following email addresses:

If you are unsure of your impact or where your applications are sourcing People data, copy both of these email addresses.

Service Groups

Service Groups are an important element of the Workday@Yale Program's strategy for achieving broad community engagement in support of Yale's transition to Workday. Read More

In the Know

Workday Concepts, General Information, & Terminology




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