Case Study: a mid-size private university modernizes HR and payroll continuity with RJ Reliance and ADP Workforce Now

Mid-size private university completes two-phase ADP Workforce Now rollout with RJ Reliance and no missed payroll cycles

A mid-size private university faced the challenge of modernizing its outdated, custom in-house HR and payroll system, which could no longer scale to meet its needs. They chose to adopt ADP Workforce Now but needed to transition in two separate phases, starting with payroll, without disrupting operations. The specific challenge for vendor RJ Reliance was to build an integration that allowed the old HR system to feed data to the new ADP payroll platform, all while preparing for a future HR migration.

RJ Reliance built a bidirectional integration layer between the systems for the first payroll phase. When the client was ready, RJ Reliance then led the full migration of HR to ADP Workforce Now and rebuilt the integrations for the new architecture. The outcome was a successful two-phase adoption: payroll continuity was maintained without a single missed cycle during the initial transition, and the university ultimately achieved full operational continuity on the new ADP platform with all integrations to its internal systems stabilized.