WEBVTT X-TIMESTAMP-MAP=LOCAL:00:00:00.000,MPEGTS:0 00:03.460 --> 00:09.039 So a gong college is a very dynamic post secondary institution uh with over 350 programs 00:09.050 --> 00:13.359 and offering certificates, diplomas and degrees uh as well as apprenticeship. 00:13.409 --> 00:17.459 We offer a variety of uh pathways for our students to achieve success. 00:17.870 --> 00:21.440 And if you ask any of our staff on any given day, they'll tell you that they're here to 00:21.450 --> 00:25.479 transform hopes and dreams into lifelong success and that is our our mission statement. 00:27.879 --> 00:33.259 So back in the early nineties, Algonquin College undertook a few major development, 00:33.419 --> 00:39.180 it development projects to uh develop enterprise resource planning systems to support 00:39.189 --> 00:44.099 our finance, budgeting, payroll and human resources, business processes. 00:44.610 --> 00:50.840 But over time with limited ability to change the user interface uh challenges with 00:50.849 --> 00:56.650 extracting data for analytics, uh challenges with integrating these systems with other 00:56.659 --> 01:00.560 peripheral systems. It became very, we became very much aware that 01:00.569 --> 01:06.629 we needed to upgrade to a more current technology that offered us more functionality, 01:06.690 --> 01:12.519 uh greater ability to analyze data as well as secure our information in a more effective 01:12.529 --> 01:14.870 manner. When Algonquin College embarked on its digital 01:14.879 --> 01:17.809 journey to replace our er P system and our planning system, 01:17.940 --> 01:21.239 uh we knew we wanted a unified platform SAS solution. 01:21.430 --> 01:26.669 Uh Knowing that the SAS solution would provide us with uh extra capacity for our it folks. 01:26.709 --> 01:32.059 Uh just freeing up those resources uh to deliver other critical uh systems for our 01:32.069 --> 01:35.370 students. And and for our student success Algonquin 01:35.379 --> 01:38.980 college selected workday adaptive planning for a few different reasons. 01:39.199 --> 01:44.410 One of them was that it was a software as a service cloud computing option. 01:44.459 --> 01:46.209 So that fit one of our criteria. 01:46.779 --> 01:52.480 It had scalability in that we could uh implement this application and it could grow 01:52.489 --> 01:55.389 with the college. Based on past experience, a Gong Kong college 01:55.400 --> 01:59.959 knew that it needed an implementation partner that understood the education sector in Ontario. 02:00.050 --> 02:01.160 And that was important. 02:01.370 --> 02:03.940 Uh when we began our search for an implementation partner, 02:03.949 --> 02:09.160 uh Deloitte was uh uh top of that pack. Our our journey with Al Gong Kong College goes 02:09.169 --> 02:13.860 back actually almost 20 years. This really was the first true workday, 02:13.869 --> 02:18.800 financials, workday HCM integration with uh adaptive in Canada. 02:18.809 --> 02:23.300 They already had workday, financials, work day HCM and work day acquired adaptive. 02:23.529 --> 02:28.160 And so it really pushed it above and beyond. In terms of the right platform for them, 02:28.169 --> 02:34.800 Deloitte helped Algonquin College achieve their finance transformation goals by truly enabling 02:34.809 --> 02:41.210 finance to be able to analyze information, report information 02:41.789 --> 02:47.059 as well as present the information to the to the variety of stakeholders that are involved 02:47.070 --> 02:48.190 in this decision making. 02:48.880 --> 02:53.580 We really believe in the value of of being on site, helping clients work with them hand in 02:53.589 --> 02:57.800 hand and, and, and some of the work that we did was we were here every week. 02:57.809 --> 03:04.220 We made sure that um we, we walked grant and, and the whole team through how planning is 03:04.229 --> 03:05.289 supposed to be done. 03:05.570 --> 03:09.619 Um You know, what we can do from an overall solution perspective, 03:09.910 --> 03:14.300 um help them come up with some really creative ideas around how they do their planning process. 03:14.479 --> 03:18.600 I think the top benefit of having done this implementation is that it's going to allow 03:18.610 --> 03:24.970 management to free up some of their time and better allocate resources uh through this tool. 03:24.979 --> 03:29.949 What we have seen with the work day adaptive planning implementation is that our our 03:29.960 --> 03:35.440 faculties and departments can now more accurately forecast their revenues and their 03:35.449 --> 03:40.649 expenses work day. Adaptive planning readily accommodates all the 03:40.660 --> 03:45.190 the variances that we we have to examine as we project our enrollment, 03:45.199 --> 03:48.449 our tuition fees, our operating grants from the ministry. 03:48.940 --> 03:55.649 The other key benefit of, of uh working with adaptive planning is that our information 03:55.660 --> 04:01.580 is stored in the cloud. We have uh we have strong security of our 04:01.589 --> 04:08.070 information with, with uh the adaptive product and it has reduced the burden on our core 04:08.080 --> 04:12.130 it theme that manages our data center and all of the servers on campus. 04:12.460 --> 04:17.149 Uh We uh we've built in the functionality in our system uh with the help of Deloitte to 04:17.160 --> 04:22.269 actually do our enrollment planning in our adaptive planning tool as the adaptive platform 04:22.290 --> 04:28.614 uh grow and as work day and the integration of adaptive continues through the road map. 04:28.834 --> 04:31.114 There's more and more they can do to engage in that. 04:31.125 --> 04:34.605 They're already thinking about the future and what they can do with the platform. 04:34.815 --> 04:40.454 It's a journey towards better information, better analysis and better decision making.