Case Study: Point Loma Nazarene University achieves real-time, multidimensional insights into finance, HR, and student data with Workday Adaptive Planning

PLNU gains insight into finance, HR, and student data

Point Loma Nazarene University, a private liberal arts university in San Diego with about 4,000 students, was operating on a 30‑year‑old ERP that left finance, HR, and student data siloed, inconsistent, and hard to analyze. The university needed a single, flexible system that could handle varied academic calendars and modalities while improving visibility and reducing errors.

PLNU implemented Workday—deploying Financial Management in 10 months and Human Capital Management in 11 months—to gain a multidimensional data architecture, mobile access, and worktags for cost allocation. The change delivered real‑time departmental cost views, corrected organizational structures and cost center allocations, 100% online time tracking for hourly staff, online performance reviews, paperless expense reporting, and better budget forecasting, freeing staff to work more strategically.

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