We last communicated on April 1 2014 that the July 2014 go-live of the UR Financials project will be postponed until later in the fiscal year. We expect to delay approximately 4-6 months.   The delay will not affect the scope of system functionality at go-live, but it will help ensure a better implementation that should enhance the user experience at go-live and beyond.

We continue to make significant progress on the issues we identified during testing while also keeping on pace with planned development and testing. We expect to resolve all major issues by early May 2014 so that we can resume with additional testing. Based on the progress made resolving the issues, we will publish revised plans with a new go-live date in May 2014.

Please forward questions you may have using the Contact Us link on the UR Financials website.

Doug Wylie and John Barden
Project Management, UR Financials 

You may be familiar with Demo Days or have participated in one of these events, designed to introduce Workday and demonstrate its functionality. We have since transitioned to informational sessions, starting with a project update followed by a spotlight on a relevant topic.

Please join us for the March installation focusing on Accounts Payable Process Changes, Financial Form samples, along with a Project and Training update. 

We have heard your feedback and are pleased to be offering three identical sessions to make it easier to attend. Please Sign-Up Here for an option that is most convenient for you.

For those partaking in the meeting via WebEx, please Click Here, and enter your name and e-mail if prompted. The meeting password is: workday

Conference call info is included below:
Dial in: 1-888-330-3581; Access Code: 6534022

Meeting agenda is posted below. Presentation materials will also be accessible through this link.

• UR Financials Overview
  –   Project Update and Delay Rationale
  –   Impact to Project Deliverables
• Training Demonstration
• Forms Update
• Future Demo Day Topics
• Q&A

Together, we continue to make significant progress with the financial system replacement project. Thank you for your continued engagement. Functionality and quality have been, and remain paramount, in our implementation of Workday Financials. Through extensive testing, several items have surfaced that are taking some time to resolve in partnership with Workday before going forward. For example, during recent testing of the Workday financial system, the processing time we experienced was much longer than we considered acceptable. In order to improve the system performance, Workday has fast-tracked this issue as a top priority for their technical team. We fully anticipate a successful resolution to this and all significant issues. However, we do not believe adequate time remains in the current plan to fully test these changes. Therefore, after a thorough discussion with the Executive Steering Committee we have decided to postpone go-live from our originally planned date of July 1, 2014 to later in the fiscal year.

We would ask that we all continue on pace with current work plans. Interim dates established for interfaces, testing, and other work requests largely remain unchanged and require continued effort. Within the next four to six weeks, we expect to publish revised plans with a new go-live date after individual items have been resolved and tested. We will keep you posted as we progress, proactively reach out to those impacted by this change in deployment date, and look to your continued support going forward. This slight delay will help assure a better implementation which should enhance the end user experience for our University community at go-live and beyond.

Please forward questions you may have using the Contact Us link on the UR Financials website.

Doug Wylie and John Barden
Project Management, UR Financials