University of New South Wales on Moving PeopleSoft to the Cloud
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Posted by Quest Customer Learning Team
- Last updated 3/26/19
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Pete Murray, Head of HR Operations and Systems at the University of New South Wales (UNSW) discussed with Quest their journey to move PeopleSoft to the cloud. Pete manages the business processes that utilize PeopleSoft HCM, e.g. payroll transaction processing and administration along with various core HR processes.
Key takeaways
- Multiple options are available to provision environments that may not be available elsewhere
- Enables companies to be agile and work on multiple projects in parallel in a cost-effective manner
- Quick and easy to deploy to the cloud
About University of New South Wales (UNSW)
UNSW is an Australian public research and teaching university located in Sydney. Established in 1949, it is regarded as one of the world’s leading universities, ranked 3rd in Australia, 45th in the world, and 1st in New South Wales according to the 2017 QS World University Rankings. The organization has over 15,000 full time and part time staff, teaching and supporting various academic and research activities.
There are 10-12 personnel in total that support the various HR System functions—five are from the HRIS team and the remainder are from the IT function. UNSW is a large consumer of PeopleSoft HCM, CS and Financials, and have been since the late 1990s when they went live with 7.6. They upgraded HCM to 9.2 and PeopleTools 8.53 in February of 2016. Since then they have been focused on deploying fundamentals of PeopleSoft Position Management, Fluid and Guided Self-Service for Position Management, as well as getting current to the latest Update Image and upgrading to PeopleTools 8.55.