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Integration Platform Strategy Design Team

Merging separate administrative systems—sometimes referred to as Enterprise Resource Planning systems—into a single Workday tenant requires a team of people who understand how the existing systems can be integrated and what that integration strategy should include. This team will work to ensure the university’s administrative systems connect and share information during the transition, so that the new Workday Administrative System and its related solutions will achieve the goals of CEMI and Resilient Cornell.

Key Update

Quarter 2, October – December:

  • Formed the team and reviewed the Huron Enterprise Resource Planning and Workday integration strategy and design approach.
  • Developed a comprehensive integration inventory to support consolidation and validation of the final set of integrations for the CEMI technology team.

 

Next Steps

Quarter 3, January – March:

  • Finalize the integration scope and update the integration strategy to reflect the Boomi-based approach. Boomi is a standard platform already used in Cornell to deliver integrations faster and maintain consistent standards across these systems.
  • Define which integrations support the Workday Foundation Tenant phase versus later phases. The foundation tenant begins as an empty shell, ready for Cornell’s early administration system data to be loaded and validated.
  • Establish secure integration connectivity, standards, and governance in coordination with the Security and Identity Management design team.
  • Enable initial data loads and conversions, and perform early testing to validate designs and reduce risk ahead of the full integration build and testing.

 

Design Team Leads

Chris Huang
Associate Director, Software Development
Weill Cornell Medicine

Durgaprasad Sreedhara
Manager, SAP Business Applications Development
Wiell Cornell Medicine

Greg Menzenski
Assistant Director, Enterprise Data Services
Ithaca-supported campuses

Alex Izaguirre
Chief Data Officer
Weill Cornell Medicine

Meghana Futnani
Associate Director for Business Intelligence
Weill Cornell Medicine

Jeff Christen
IT Manager, Data Warehousing and Integrations
Ithaca-supported campuses

Harish Babu Chava
Director, Administrative Computing
Information Technology Services
Weill Cornell Medicine

Jerry Philip
Associate Director, Business Analysis
Information Technology Services
Weill Cornell Medicine

CEMI’s Six Vertical Focus Areas or Workstreams

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Achieving a seamless digital environment across Cornell will require coordinated progress on six interdependent initiatives — like building all six legs while simultaneously raising the table.

 

Channels within the Technical Workstream

 

Shaped by the Cornell Community: Get Involved

Contribute your skills and experience to the Cornell Experience Modernization Initiative (CEMI). Community members know the current processes and systems best—and what it’s going to take to change how we do things.

Get involved: ask a question, suggest improvements, add your insights to a CEMI effort, volunteer for an activity, or join the mailing list.

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Visit the Project Teams page to meet some of the Cornell community members shaping the CEMI program.