Redesign

Welcome!

Welcome to the Workday webpage, your one-stop shop for information about Workday. Here, you’ll find the latest news about the project and much more!

Project Overview

Workday will allow MSU Denver to reimagine the business of the University, enabling organizational efficiency and empowering our community to make timely strategic decisions, support our students and core mission, and become one of Colorado’s most desired places of employment by implementing an agile, sustainable and modern system.

Why Workday?

Workday will replace Banner, our current HR and Finance management system. Banner is outdated and can no longer meet the evolving needs of our staff, faculty and students.

What are the benefits of implementing Workday?

By moving to Workday, employees will benefit from a system that is easy to use, equipped with powerful tools and provides lots of self-service functionalities that previously did not exist.

What does success look like?

Our people are our number one priority. By implementing Workday, we will boost employee engagement, maximize productivity and increase efficiency across the University – less time focused on processes and more time focused on our employees and students. We want to transform the way our employees work, making their lives and jobs easier. Workday will help us do that.

Featured FAQ

Will this only impact HR and Finance employees?

No. All staff, faculty and student employees, will be impacted by the transition to Workday and benefit from this highly intuitive and inclusive system. Employees will use Workday to select and manage their benefits, enter and track their time, keep tabs on their leave balance, access their compensation, view their career growth development plus so much more.

Workday will automate our onboarding processes, enhancing the new employee experience; and streamline our procurement functions, making the invoicing, PR and PO processes much more user-friendly. And for employees whose role requires accessing data, Workday is an incredible reporting tool allowing for customization of data and the ability to easily and quickly pull information to make data-driven informed decisions.

Timeline

Check out this high-level Workday project timeline to get a sense of the project scope. Over the past year, the Workday Project Team has been and will continue to diligently work to make sure every detail of the MSU Denver Workday system is prototyped and configured appropriately.

Workday Tidbits This Month

Another Workday Milestone: End-to-End Testing

The Workday project recently hit another major milestone: End-to-End testing. Many key players from across the University are coming together to test business processes from start to finish to identify any gaps before going live. This critical phase of testing ensures our configuration is set up properly and runs as it should.

Several HR processes will be put through End-to-End testing. For instance, in our recruit to hire process, we’ll look at every step: recruiting, applying for a job, candidate engagement, hiring and onboarding. Some of us may be called to participate and/or give input regarding other HR business processes. Thank you in advance.

Background

The Workday Project is a major institution-wide initiative that was made possible by generous funding from the State of Colorado. Learn why and how MSU Denver decided to implement Workday as their new Enterprise Resource Planning system on the Workday Project Background webpage.