PLEASANTON, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 28, 2014) - Workday, Inc. (
Founded in 1883, UT Austin is one of the largest universities in the nation, with approximately 14,000 faculty and staff, 11,000 student workers, and more than 50,000 students. For 25 years, UT Austin has used legacy mainframe systems to custom develop its administrative applications. Although the current systems have delivered operational functionality and integration over the years, they no longer provide the flexibility or capabilities required to meet the evolving expectations and needs of employees and students.
With Workday, UT Austin expects to realize several benefits of a unified cloud application, including:
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"As an institution committed to excellence in education, we want the technology at UT Austin to both reflect and enable students, faculty, and staff," said Kevin Hegarty, vice president and CFO, The University of Texas at Austin. "Our university must be empowered with new capabilities that will enable us to better serve all employees and help our students achieve great success."
"With Workday, UT Austin will have a unified administrative application that is modern, mobile, and built for the needs of higher education today with the flexibility to evolve as those needs change," said Dave Duffield, co-founder and co-CEO, Workday. "Everyone at UT Austin -- from administrators and faculty to students -- will gain greater flexibility, speed, and access to information that can help them be more successful."
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