Human Capital Services, the Division of Financial Services, the Office of Student Life and Information Technology Services (ITS) are pleased to announce the move of HRIS, FIS, and KSIS to the cloud and managed services was successful. K-State’s functional users of systems, the ITS staff, and our vendor partners spent hundreds of hours of planning, preparing, testing, and migrating the systems.
Jay Stephens, vice president for human capital services said, “This migration further disaster-proofs critical systems that help the university care for our employees and run day to day. So many people touch HRIS every day, including our own payroll and resource center teams who rely on this system to make sure employees are paid accurately and on time. We appreciate the partnership with ITS to make this happen”.
The ERP cloud migration and move to managed services is part of K-State’s ongoing efforts to modernize the IT infrastructure and implement a cloud-first strategy. ITS staff has been actively working on the migration since the summer of 2019. Over a year and a half of planning was required for the implementation.
The migration is one of the many reasons that K-State was the recipient of the E&I Cloud Award, resulting from a hybrid approach to a cloud strategy and the speed at which the planning and implementation occurred.
According to Fran Willbrant, associate vice president for financial services, “The move overall went extremely well thanks to the hard work of everyone involved. I am confident that with the transition to the cloud-based infrastructure that our on campus information technology resources can now be more effectively deployed to help the campus improve services to our students, faculty, and staff”.
“The move of our largest systems to the cloud, allows K-State to scale up during peak performance times, optimizes the use of IT resources”, said Gary Pratt, chief information officer, and puts K-State in a better position for business continuity should a disaster occur on campus”.
To learn more about K-State’s move to a cloud-first strategy, view the IT Strategic Plan.
