Vermont State Colleges System is entering Phase 2 of its Workday program, implementing Workday Student along with Adaptive Planning and Prism using a multi-institution deployment approach. The project is in the Planning stage, with pre-work information workbooks completed on schedule, a planning workshop held June 10–11, and workstream meetings being scheduled ahead of Architect & Configure; the student implementation is expected to last 33 months and has greater complexity and more frequent tenant builds than the platform phase. The June 8 budget update shows a change order to implement Student as multi-institution, increases internal resource allocations, and adds 1917694 for external professional resources to supplement capacity and expertise, while emphasizing the need for more dedicated resources, data conversion support, Workday Student expertise, and backfill for functional leads. This creates clear openings for firms that provide Workday Student implementation support, data conversion, testing, project staffing/backfill, and change management targeted to higher-ed student information systems. A productive discussion would focus on providing specialized Workday Student consultants, data mapping and migration services from Colleague and other legacy systems, testing and validation support, and temporary backfill staff for campus functional teams.

Issues cited include overlapping schedules with platform stabilization, continuous data conversion a...