With 2025 well underway, the WaveWorks! project team is now working hard to prepare for us for go-live in January next year.  Let’s take a look back at all the achievements of the team members in 2024 to create a strong foundation for success!

Last year was full of major accomplishments, including:

• Officially kicking off the WaveWorks! project
• Building a strong and dedicated core team, now over 130 colleagues
• Launching four key workstreams: ERP (Finance), HCM (HR), and EPM (Budget and Planning) and IT
• Establishing a productive working relationship with our integration partner, Drivestream
• Engaging over 80 colleagues in Interactive Requirements Design Workshops (over 160 hours total time in sessions) to determine our design requirements 
• Using these requirements to build the first (beta) version of Oracle Cloud for Tulane (“App 1”), which was tested and reviewed in over 270 total hours in workshops and self-guided reviews
• Incorporating feedback from App 1 to create the second version (“App 2”) in the fall of 2024, allowing Tulane subject matter experts to again spend many hours familiarizing themselves with Oracle Cloud and identifying additional enhancements 
• Tackling the challenges of migrating data into the new system and planning how to integrate it with other IT systems 
• Making significant progress on the demanding project to rationalize and harmonize Tulane’s Chart of Accounts, which underpins how we structure, manage, and report on finances and administer our institution

In all, 2024 was a year of major accomplishments—well done, everyone!

President Mike Fitts highlighted WaveWorks as a vital strategic initiative in his State of the University sessions. During 2024, President Fitts, Provost Robin Forman, and COO Patrick Norton also recognized the hard work of so many colleagues, commending them for their successes.