Brandeis will be moving student-related activities from Sage to Workday Student. Workday Student will launch in phases starting in fall 2020 through fall 2021. Learn more!
Workday is the university system of record for Human Resources, Finance and Payroll-related activities. It is also your - Brandeis community - system to manage a variety of self-service functions, including updating your personal information, viewing your payslips, entering time worked, requesting time off, and more.
There are several ways to get support and learn more. Visit the Workday@Brandeis Support page for more information.
About the Workday at Brandeis Project
The Workday@Brandeis Project - launched in July 2019 - brings Brandeis's administrative services in line with its excellence in teaching, research, and practice. In summer 2019, the team launched the first phase of the Workday@Brandeis Project, focusing on HR, Payroll, and Finance processes. The transition to Workday provides our University community with real-time reporting, standardized business processes, and optimized administrative functions.
Brandeis has used the administrative software PeopleSoft to manage human resources, payroll, and finance operations since 2002. Due to the unique needs of our administrative business units, PeopleSoft systems were highly customized over the years. These customizations added a layer of complexity to our administrative systems, making system upgrades and modifications challenging and disruptive for our vendors and staff.
Workday offers a different software model, offering configurable frameworks that works with our own data. No coding is required. Workday delivers automated updates to Brandeis twice a year without causing disruption to the University's normal business procedures.
Workday is used for Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP). This system manages HR, payroll, and finance business processes. It is designed to minimize reliance on paper and manual workarounds. Workday is modern and web-based and will standardize our HR and payroll process.
After a yearlong ambitious and inclusive review process, Brandeis has determined that Workday is the best system to meet the University's current and future operating requirements. By choosing Workday, the University will receive numerous benefits not available with traditional, on-premise software applications.
Workday offers new and improved features and process that will help the University
Collaborate more easily and improve communication and cooperation across campus
Provide easy and consistent access to information for planning and managing
Modernize business process and systems to take advantage of emerging technologies
Minimize administrative overhead for faculty and staff
Increase effectiveness in business process and lower operating costs
Improve student, faculty, and staff user experience
On July 1, 2019, faculty and staff will use Workday to:
View and update Home Address and Contact Information
In the interest of providing transparency about the ongoing ERP project, the ITS Workday Team will continue to add information to this project website. Future iterations will include a project calendar, Workday training opportunities, videos, presentations and a project blog.
