About WaveWorks
WaveWorks is the project name for the transformational initiative to implement our new cloud-based information technology platform, Oracle Cloud. Oracle Cloud will replace our current, aging information systems for finance, budget & planning, and human resources, allow us to adopt best practices in these areas and offer vastly better functionality than our current systems. Watch the video below to learn more about the program.
Guiding Principles
- Utilize proven cloud vendor with software industry best-practice processes
- Focus on essential business functions as a priority
- Resource and staff appropriately throughout the project, from kickoff to post go-live
- Communication first, there is no such thing as over communicating
- Implementation will be an iterative design process
- Transparency and inclusion: end users should be aware and included in design, and change management efforts should be prominent
- Simplification and standardization, favor "out-of-box" over customization
- One system of record (single source of truth for our data)
Why is Tulane making this change?
- Tulane's HR and finance operations run on EBS, which reaches end-of-life in 2030
- We will replace EBS with Oracle Cloud to enhance our daily work lives and ensure we are all better able to focus on our important core mission and objectives
- Oracle Cloud will provide many benefits:
- Vastly better functionality
- Business transformation through best practice processes, capabilities, and tools
- Greatly enhanced organizational efficiency
Celebrating WaveWorks Contributors
On June 3, 2025, some 60 members of the large team working on the WaveWorks Project to implement Oracle Cloud at Tulane gathered to celebrate the major milestones achieved over the last several months.
These achievements notably included completing the "App 3 Review", over six weeks during which team members spent many hours in workshops learning about and enhancing the third (beta) iteration of the of the Oracle cloud system for finance (ERP) and HR (HCM). These teams are also now on their way to completing the system integration testing phase, during which they are evaluating how are other systems connect with Oracle Cloud.
On the EPM side, the team has been working hard on the development of this Oracle Cloud budget and planning module, in preparation to kick off their second app review this month. And our IT team continues to work hard on systems integrations, on validating our data in the new system and planning for a smooth migration.
Executive sponsor Patrick Norton, Tulane's Chief Operating Officer, joined the celebration, and expressed his thanks for all the hard work the teams have done and continue to do, paving the way for a fundamental transformation of how we work at Tulane, with future capabilities which today we can only dream about.
