Huron Consulting Group Becomes Workday Services Partner
November 03 2014 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Huron Consulting Group (NASDAQ:HURN), a leading provider of
business consulting services, today announced that the Company has
become a Workday Services Partner, enabling it to help education
and healthcare customers deploy Workday Financial Management,
Workday Human Capital Management and Workday Student (beginning
with Workday Student Recruiting). Workday (NYSE:WDAY) is a leading
provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human
resources.
“Higher education and healthcare face unprecedented economic and
competitive pressures. These challenges are creating a more intense
focus on improving administrative functions through the application
of better business process design and technology,” said James H.
Roth, chief executive officer and president, Huron Consulting
Group. “Huron is pleased to become a Workday Services Partner. Our
alliance with Workday provides us with exciting new opportunities
to help our clients generate meaningful improvement and efficiency
in their operations.”
The agreement with Workday is a critical part of Huron’s
expanding cloud-based Software as a Service (SaaS) strategy. As the
marketplace increasingly views the cloud as integral to enterprise
system strategies, Huron is preparing for an increase in related
deployment services.
“As trusted advisors to universities, academic medical centers,
and healthcare organizations, we are excited to offer consulting
services on Workday’s cloud-based financial management, human
capital management and student applications,” said Laura A. Yaeger,
executive vice president, Huron Education. “We understand the
unique process, organizational and regulatory complexities that
universities must embrace to successfully deploy cloud-based
applications such as Workday.”
“Huron has an excellent track record of helping education and
healthcare organizations leverage and maximize their technology
investments,” said Randy Hendricks, president, Education and
Government, Workday. “We are excited for them to join the Workday
services partner ecosystem, and we look forward to the value and
expertise they will bring to our mutual customers to help them
transition to the cloud.”
Huron Education is also a sponsor of Workday Rising 2014,
Workday’s annual gathering of customers, prospective customers,
partners, and employees. Workday Rising is being held November 3-6
in San Francisco.
About Huron Education
Huron Education is the premier provider serving the unique needs
of the higher education industry. Our team of professionals, each
with extensive knowledge and experience in the business of higher
education and academic medical centers, delivers comprehensive
services to the industry and partners with institutions to improve
business performance across the enterprise. Our professionals draw
from their experience working in the strategic, financial,
operational, and regulatory aspects of higher education to develop
and implement the most effective consulting and software solutions.
Huron Education has helped more than 90 of the nation’s top 100
research universities improve their performance so they can
continue their traditions of extraordinary achievement. Learn more
at www.huronconsultinggroup.com/highereducation or follow us on
Twitter: @Huron.
About Huron Consulting Group
Huron Consulting Group helps clients in diverse industries
improve performance, transform the enterprise, reduce costs,
leverage technology, process and review large amounts of complex
data, address regulatory changes, recover from distress and
stimulate growth. Our professionals employ their expertise in
finance, operations, strategy and technology to provide our clients
with specialized analyses and customized advice and solutions that
are tailored to address each client's particular challenges and
opportunities to deliver sustainable and measurable results. The
Company provides consulting services to a wide variety of both
financially sound and distressed organizations, including
healthcare organizations, leading academic institutions, Fortune
500 companies, governmental entities and law firms. Huron has
worked with more than 425 health systems, hospitals, and academic
medical centers; more than 400 corporate general counsel; and more
than 350 universities and research institutions. Learn more at
www.huronconsultinggroup.com.
Huron Consulting GroupJennifer Frost Hennagir,
312-880-3260jfrost-hennagir@huronconsultinggroup.com
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