WORKDAY WIRE

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…

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…

Earlier this month, I was delighted to speak to so many staff, faculty, and students across all of our institutions at the Fall 2022 Town Hall sessions. We had 640 people join us from the University of Maryland College Park, University of Maryland Eastern Shore, University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, and University System of Maryland Office. Such continued engagement from…

Reflecting on 2022

As 2022 comes to an end, I want to take the time to reflect on Elevate’s growth and accomplishments over the past year. In 2022, the Elevate Program has:

It’s officially 2023 - the year our team has been anticipating for years. This July, the first phase of our Workday implementation will Go Live: Human Capital Management (HCM) and Finance.

Our training team has also been heads-down to ensure that end-user training, including on-demand computer based training and instructor-led training, is ready for users to begin in April 2023. Registration for…

In case you haven’t heard, our team had our first of three “Go/No Go” assessments this month. The decision is in: we met criteria to Go! This means we are on track to Go Live with Workday on July 17, 2023! 

Our “Go/No Go” assessments are a normal part of large system implementations. We have two more assessments planned with the next one to be conducted in early April.  Our Executive…

Things are developing rapidly over at Elevate as we draw closer to Go Live on July 17, 2023. We are reaching critical milestones on developing and piloting training materials, nailing down cutover dates and transition activities, and conducting extensive user testing. Some high-level accomplishments from the last month include:

If you’ve seen the announcement from our Executive Sponsors, you know that leadership and the Elevate Program team have made the decision to delay Workday Go Live. At the end of March, the program completed our most recent Go/No Go Assessment, a rigorous and transparent assessment that evaluated critical milestones, technical metrics, and campus readiness. The outcome of this most recent assessment was…

As you may have heard, the Elevate Program has a new Go Live date for Workday Finance and Human Capital Management (HCM): November 15, 2023. This date was selected after consulting with key stakeholders across our partner entities, and it is our hope that this extended timeline will provide plenty of time for staff and faculty to prepare for the transition to Workday. You can learn more about this…

Workday Training is HERE!

On July 17, 2023, the Elevate Program team launched training for Workday! On-demand training courses have been available for all employees to enroll in for just over one week. It has been so exciting for our team to watch training enrollments climb and to watch our future users complete their courses. As of today, we have 763 completions of our first course, Introduction to…