On June 18 the President’s Council approved the business case for a new comprehensive, cloud-based system to replace and modernize a range of Human Resources- and Payroll-related applications and processes. This initiative will see staff recruiting and retention, onboarding, time reporting, compensation, payroll, performance, and learning management encompassed in one system.
This initiative is one of nine in the Operational Excellence (OPEX) program, UCAR’s multi-year effort to modernize business operations started in 2014 to provide state-of-the-art support to NCAR and UCP and implement a framework for continuous process improvement. OPEX was an important component of our recompete proposal to manage NCAR, consistent with NSF’s expectations of the need to modernize our business practices.
Through an extensive competitive procurement process, UCAR selected Workday’s Human Capital Management Suite. This summer, we will begin working with an integrator, Sierra-Cedar, to support us in configuring and deploying the Workday HCM solution for first use in mid-2019. Sierra-Cedar is a recognized Workday Services Partner. Thank you to the more than 30 staff from NCAR, UCP, and UCAR who participated in the evaluation process.
Workday’s Human Capital Management Suite will provide employees with a single, online system for all financial and HR needs, and will be used to improve service levels, optimize costs, provide enhanced analytic capabilities, and improve security and privacy. Recruiters and hiring committees will have improved tools and metrics to support both sourcing of diverse, highly talented candidate pools and onboarding of successful new hires. Managers and leaders will gain improved tools and metrics that integrate performance evaluation, development, and retention with career and succession planning.
We will keep you apprised of further information on the project as it becomes available. For regular updates on this project, visit https://www2.fin.ucar.edu/opex/hcm or contact the Project Manager, Karla Waltman at x8881 or karla@ucar.edu.
About Workday
Workday is a leading provider of enterprise cloud applications for human resources and finance. Founded in 2005, Workday delivers financial management, human capital management, and analytics applications designed for the world's largest companies, educational institutions, and government agencies. More than 1,000 organizations, including federally-funded organizations such as the National Renewable Energies Laboratory, Fermilab, and Argonne National Laboratory, as well as several of our member universities, have selected Workday.
About Sierra-Cedar, Inc.
Founded in 1995, Sierra-Cedar is a recognized Workday Services Partner. With a focus on public sector and higher education, Sierra-Cedar has successfully completed over 1,500 projects with colleges, universities, and public sector organizations, including successful Workday deployments with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, Argonne National Laboratory, and the City and County of Denver.
