The Atlassian Cloud Migration Project team has reached the milestone of retiring the on-premises Confluence and Jira applications, along with their associated servers. While retirement planning began 2 years earlier, core project activities officially began in October of 2022 as the team began to gather requirements and learn the features and functionality unique to the Atlassian […]
Category: Enterprise Applications
One.WUSTL Unveils a Fresh New Look!
On Wednesday, April 24th, an upgrade to One.WUSTL.edu will change the look of the application you use daily. No worries though: functionality will remain the same. You can still access hundreds of university services and systems anywhere, anytime and sign in to save your favorites for easy reference. The changes are small but noticeable: If […]
March IT All Hands recording and materials now available
The meeting recording and the presentation materials from the March IT All Hands meeting are now available for review. If you were unable to attend last month’s meeting, or if you just want a recap, please explore the materials from the last meeting, or any of the past meetings from the last several years.
Unlocking Success: The Story Behind our Mass Emailing Makeover
The Emma Product Replacement for ListServ Maestro project was created to replace the aging ListServ and ListServ Maestro applications and associated hardware. These common good applications enable mass emailing functionality for various populations across the university. The introduction of Emma to Groups 1, 2 and 3 has been met with enthusiastic reception, leading the team to accelerate […]
The importance of self-reflection and self-awareness in the workplace
As I have been re-reading “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable” by Patrick Lencioni, well listening to the audio book, it has had me thinking about self-awareness. The book is tale about reasons that teams fail to function effectively and how we can work to correct course. Self-awareness is not one of the […]
Complete Harassment Prevention Training in Workday by April 12th
All WashU employees have been assigned annual harassment prevention training in Workday, which must be completed by April 12. The course was developed by Skillsoft, a leading expert in compliance training. Contingent employees are not required to complete the training. Warning: some employees might find the simulated photos or exercises to be distressing. The subject […]
Staff Recognition and Awards: Please nominate your peers
Distinguished Honor Awards nominations are open and being accepted until 5 pm CT, Friday, March 15th. Explore the categories under Universitywide, Central Fiscal Unit (CFU,) Medical School, and Danforth Campus School awards and consider nominating your peers or leaders for these prestigious honors. Staff Recognition Awards this year will return to an in-person component. Staff with […]
Pause to technology purchases and projects involving student data
As we approach the start of the complicated go-live year for Workday Student, we are asking that schools and units pause the purchase of new technologies or the start of new technical projects that involve student data. This pause is temporary but necessary to ensure no negative impacts to our transition to Workday Student. Further, we […]
Unleash the power of collaboration with Monday.com
WashU IT is excited to announce the addition of Monday.com to its portfolio of work management platforms. Monday.com is here to transform the way you work, making Mondays and every other day of the week more efficient, collaborative, and enjoyable. Monday.com is a powerful collaborative work management platform which provides task-driven workspaces to enable users to plan, […]
Enterprise Applications (EA): Changes coming to BadgeMaster in Spring of 2024!
Badgemaster is being refactored in 2024 as part of the Student Sunrise project to change source of student data. It is an IT system used by the Danforth Card Office to manage student photos and create Danforth ID card. Other systems that processes card swipes or consume student photos likely receive data from Badgemaster and […]