At a glance
Transforming the student experience
CLIENT Overview
Hinds Community College is Mississippi’s oldest and largest community college, founded in 1917. Leadership at Hinds recognized a need to meet modern expectations and decided to undergo digital transformation with Workday.
The Challenge
Hinds Community College struggled with lengthy manual processes and visibility into the overall institution, prompting the change toward modernization. Hinds had several siloed systems that made visibility and reporting a challenge. Leaders at Hinds realized that there was a need to transform its current processes with software that meets modern expectations and to gain better visibility into the institution.
Key Highlights
Workday Financials, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), and Workday Student deployed by Avaap
Hinds selected Workday to bring extensive transformation to every aspect of the college’s accounting, HR, Payroll. and student information system processes. The project focused on streamlining processes and bringing the college to a single source of data on which to make strategic decisions. Workday enabled Hinds to move from a transactional system to a true reporting and analytics-based solution and have better visibility into its HR and financial processes, and provided students with a more modern and easy-to-use system.
Greater visibility and improved process efficiency
Hinds realized the benefits of their Workday deployment in many instances but has seen immense value in concise, efficient reporting that was not possible in their legacy system. Reports are generated with ease and provide the college better snapshots of current revenue activity in real-time, transforming their ability to respond to changing business conditions. Students also report being able to register for classes more easily and are able to find answers to questions they previously had to ask staff for help with.
Hinds Community College and Avaap
Hinds selected Avaap because of Avaap’s demonstrated interest in learning how to best support Hinds on its transformation. The project included supporting a shift to a remote deployment halfway through the project due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
“I could not feel better about the choice of Workday, particularly the choice of Avaap,” said Director of Technology Tamisha Johnson. “We are grateful for the opportunities that are available to Hinds as a result of this partnership.”
As of 2023, Hinds Community College is live on the full Workday platform, including Workday Student.
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