Legacy Payroll System

Serving UW since 1975

The current University of Wisconsin Payroll System has served UW campuses since 1975.  Over 40,000 administrators, faculty, staff and student workers from all University of Wisconsin campuses are paid through this system. While it has met System needs for more than 30 years, it lacks the functionality and efficiency that today’s human resource environment requires. Both technology and the needs of higher education have changed considerably so System’s current ability to deliver more strategic human resource management capabilities and business process reinvention to its stakeholders is limited.

Replacing the legacy system with Human Resources System (HRS) will result in substantial benefits by improving data integrity; increasing standardization of policies, practices, and service delivery; eliminating the numerous institutional shadow systems; and providing self-service to its employees. It will also help alleviate potential staffing risks. The pool of individuals with technical expertise with the legacy appointment payroll system is shrinking, and staff turnover and retirements will affect System‘s ability to effectively support the current system. However if the Oracle/PeopleSoft Human Capital Management technology is implemented, the University of Wisconsin has a much greater pool of resources to choose from. Oracle/PeopleSoft’s experience base can be leveraged in many phases of the implementation from conversion to launch.