Case Study: Florida Atlantic University achieves unified 12‑year finance and HR reporting for on‑demand analytics with Workday Adaptive Planning

FAU integrates all historical data for on-demand reporting

Florida Atlantic University, one of Florida’s largest public universities serving 30,000+ students and 4,000 employees, needed to combine 12 years of pre-Workday finance and HR records with ongoing third‑party data to support long‑term financial trending, historical record requests, and business‑unit performance reporting. Before Workday, blending legacy and non‑Workday sources required manual pulls, Excel manipulation, and lengthy reconciliation, leaving business owners without a single, secure source of truth for analysis.

FAU migrated 12 years of finance and HR data into Workday, retired its legacy systems, and used Workday Prism Analytics to bring transaction‑level payment and FDM crosswalk detail into the platform. The result is a single source for historical inquiries (10–15 legacy datasets, ~800 MB), dashboards showing 10+ years of financial data, reconciled revenue detail for non‑tuition receivables, support for ~100 business users, and new use‑case build times reduced to 3–4 weeks.

Florida Atlantic University