Workday Overview
Workday is here! Miami University’s Board of Trustees adopted a resolution supporting the replacement of its current legacy Banner system with Workday, a cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. Miami went live with HR and Finance in July 2024. A phased Student implementation is scheduled for completion in 2026.
What is Workday?
Workday is a comprehensive human resources, financial management, and student information system that brings together a wide range of HCM (human capital management), finance, and student functionality into one system.
As a self-service tool, it puts the power of access and information into our faculty, staff, and students’ hands. It will enable process efficiencies across Miami, empowering our community to make timely strategic decisions and offering effective tools to improve how we operate as a higher-ed institution.
Workday Student Implementation
A dedicated Workday implementation team has been formed tp facilitate a smooth and successful transition to Workday. Over the next several years, this team will work with our implementation partner, Avaap, to ensure the system is configured and tested appropriately to meet Miami’s needs.
Workday will become Miami’s integrated enterprise resource planning (ERP) and student information system (SIS), leveraging the power of one system for our university.
- Streamline and modernize Miami’s systems
- Elimination of multi-system use to obtain data
- Extensive self-service functionality
- Incorporate industry best practice processes
- Easy access to hundreds of standard reports
- Improve the student experience
This change will impact all faculty and students, as well as select employees.
- Multi-modal communication happening in preparation for the phased impacts of the implementation.
- Change Champions will be reengaged in 2025.
- Regularly check the Miami Workday web page for general information, project spotlights, FAQs, and more.
The Student implementation will happen in phases, starting in the fall of 2025, and continuing through the fall of 2026.
Miami has formed a dedicated Workday implementation team to facilitate a smooth and successful transition to Workday. The team has been and will continue to work closely with Avaap, Miami’s Workday implementation partner.
- Students will register for classes in Workday for the 2026 Fall Semester.
- Faculty and staff can successfully support students using Workday.
Why Workday?
By implementing Workday, Miami will transform how it delivers essential business services and provide seamless end-to-end experiences for its faculty, staff, and students. This change will also:
- Streamline and modernize the University’s systems.
- Incorporate industry best practice processes while making student, faculty, and staff data more easily accessible than before.
- Allow students, faculty, and staff to view their job-related educational information and customize personal data such preferred name.
- Eliminate the need to access multiple systems to get data.
- Provide easy access to hundreds of standard reports.
- Allow for extensive self-service functionality from any digital workspace.
History of the Workday Project
Guiding Principles
We will transform the student and employee experience with a collaborative culture, data informed decisions, operational efficiencies, and an empowered community. We will do this by building the foundation for Miami’s future with a modern, transformative, flexible, and integrated set of core tools, processes based on leading practices, and a platform that will serve us for years to come.
- Leverage Workday as primary solution
- Lean and efficient
- Use leading practice
- Transparency
- Over communicate
- Listen
- Challenge the status quo
- Iterate and improve
- Customer-focused decision
- Quality of product
- Respect and trust
- Collaboration
- Recognition
Additional Workday Institutions
Miami is the 100th institution to implement Workday Student! Below, you can view a sample of the other colleges and universities that currently, or will soon, use this system.
- Aims Community College
- Austin Community College
- Babson University
- Brandeis University
- Fort Hays State University
- Furman University
- Hamline University of Minnesota
- Howard University
- Iowa State University
- Ivy Tech Community College
- Kansas City University Medical Center
- Muhlenberg College
- Northampton County Community College
- Palm Beach State College
- Rhodes College
- Santa Clara University
- Simmons University
- Smith College
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- SUNY Erie Community College
- University of Arkansas System
- University of Findlay
- University of Mississippi Medical Center
- University of the Sciences Philadelphia
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- Miami University (Go-live scheduled for 2025/2026)
- University of Akron (Go-live scheduled for 2024-2025 academic year)
- University of Maryland (Go-live scheduled for 2026-2027 academic year)
- University of North Florida (Student implementation to start 2025)
- Washington University in St. Louis (Go-live scheduled for the 2024-2025 academic year)
