Welcome
About Us
We focus on quality customer service, collaboration, and technical and functional expertise.
Enterprise Systems supports, maintains, and develops enterprise level applications that are critical to the success of Washington State University (WSU). We focus on fostering strong collaborative relationships with entities on campus by focusing on customer service and working closely with all campus units. Our team of dedicated professionals work to ensure all customer goals and business needs are met.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell
Our team is comprised of talented, functional, and technical professionals.
A transformational step in the evolution of enterprise level systems and solutions at WSU, Enterprise Systems’ team of functional experts, business analysts, and technical professionals:
- Combines cutting edge technology with advanced business thinking to deliver solutions to end users across the university.
- Unites functional professionals and technical experts in a truly cross functional team to break down traditional organizational silos and develop customer focused, sustainable enterprise level systems.
- Empowers team members with the latest tools, a new culture, and needed resources.
- Strives to meet user needs in everything that is done.
Project Overview
Complex enterprise initiatives require project management.
Complex enterprise initiatives require the coordination of multiple technology streams and constituents. At Enterprise Systems, all projects are thoroughly reviewed to ensure the most appropriate resources are assigned to accomplish the project goals. We utilize Atlassian software to track projects and facilitate communication and collaboration. Our projects require technical and functional knowledge and expertise from everyone involved to ensure success, o. This approach helps link project performance to milestones, specific tasks, and successful coordination of functional teams to address risks and meet deadlines.
We believe in a transparent work environment.
Transparency drives team performance, task ownership, accountability, and better communication. Transparency in our projects helps hold us and our partners accountable throughout the project. It eliminates surprises, promotes ownership and builds trust. It is key in helping us plan and develop project timelines and deliverables we can meet.
Our Methodology
Our project methodology helps us establish expectations for everyone working on the project and set a clear understanding of our procedures. While changes to our methodology are rare, they do occur to ensure we are always improving. Please download the latest version of our project methodology here:
Submit a project to Enterprise Systems
Enterprise Systems is here to help with many project needs! If you have a project that requires our assistance, please submit a project request form:
Following the submission, our management team will review the request in a weekly project request meeting. If there are any questions, the requestor will be contacted for more information. Requestors can anticipate a response to their submissions within five business days. Once the project has been approved, a project manager will be assigned and they will contact the requestor to begin the project initiation process.
Welcome
About Us
We focus on quality customer service, collaboration, technical and functional expertise.
Enterprise Systems supports, maintains and develops enterprise level applications that are critical to the success of Washington State University. We focus on fostering strong collaborative relationships with entities on campus. This is done by focusing on customer service and working closely with all campus units. Enterprise Systems team of dedicated professionals work to ensure we meet our customers goals and business needs.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell
Our team is comprised of talented, functional and technical professionals.
It’s a transformational step in the evolution of enterprise level systems and solutions at Washington State University. Our team of functional experts, business analysts, and technical professionals:
- Combines cutting edge technology with advanced business thinking to deliver solutions to end users across the university.
- Unites functional professionals and technical experts in a truly cross functional team to break down traditional organizational silos and develop customer focused, sustainable enterprise level systems.
- Empowers team members with the latest tools, a new culture, and needed resources.
- Strives to meet user needs in everything we do.
Project Overview
Complex enterprise initiatives require project management.
Complex enterprise initiatives require the coordination of multiple technology streams and constituents. At Enterprise Systems we take project management serious and it is at the core of everything we do. We utilize Atlassian software to track projects and facilitate communication and collaboration with everyone we work with. We recognize that our projects require technical and functional knowledge and expertise from everyone involved with a project to be successful. This approach helps link project performance to milestones, specific tasks, and successful coordination of functional teams to address risks and meet project deadlines.
We believe in a transparent work environment.
Enterprise Systems recognizes that transparency drives team performance, task ownership, accountability and better communication. Transparency in our projects helps hold us and our partners accountable throughout the project. It eliminates surprises, promotes ownership and builds trust. It is key in helping us plan and develop project timelines and deliverables that can be met.
- For up-to-date information about our projects please view our latest monthly report.
- For a list of current projects please view our project list below.
Our Methodology
Enterprise Systems feels it is important that everyone understands our project methodology. This helps us establish expectations for everyone working on the project as well as a clear understanding of our procedures. Our methodology does change to ensure that we are always improving. While these changes are not often they do occur. If you are referring to the methodology please download the latest version from our website.
Submit a project to Enterprise Systems
Enterprise Systems is here to help. If you have a project that requires our assistance please download and complete our project request form. Once the form has been completed please submit it to enterprise.systems@wsu.edu or to the Enterprise Systems Associate Director who works with your area.
Mainframe Modernization
Migrating to the Cloud
For over three decades now, WSU’s IBM mainframe, a highly secure and reliable platform for large-scale online and batch transaction processing, has effectively managed WSU’s business applications. With recent advancements in cloud-based technologies, WSU is now embracing the opportunity to transition to a mainframe cloud solution or Mainframe as a Service (MFaaS). MFaaS is a subscription service offering that addresses legacy mainframe challenges while providing scalability and flexible financial models to support growth. MFaaS allows operators to scale mainframe capacity to be in alignment with organization’s unique requirements.
Migration to the new MFaaS model provides WSU with the following immediate benefits:
- The MFaaS solution allows WSU to move away from the physical legacy mainframe located in the heart of Pullman campus’ Information Technology Services Data Center. WSU will now run applications and services within the IBM cloud-based MFaaS. This change allows WSU to replace end of life hardware, making our mainframe environment more dynamically sustainable and extends the lifespan of mission-critical applications.
- The IBM MFaaS solution runs within a Tier-4 Data Center, providing WSU an environment to run mainframe applications with the highest level of redundancy and security. This Tier-4 Data Center also offers options not available within current onsite mainframe environment.
- The IBM MFaaS cloud solution provides WSU additional disaster recovery options to ensure business continuity.
- The IBM cloud-based MFaaS also offers WSU significant future cost savings over the next several years, providing the ability to scale down services as we retire or modernize mainframe applications.
- The MFaaS model migration requires no major conversion efforts, thus maintaining critical business continuity during the migration. WSU will test the cloud-based service by running live mainframe applications, both on the onsite mainframe and the new cloud-based mainframe, to confirm all processes run identically prior to the final transition. Once all processes are confirmed, migration to the cloud will proceed, and ITS will retire the onsite mainframe.
The transition to the MFaaS subscription model is currently underway and the migration team is finalizing the project testing timeline. The team’s plan includes incorporating current mainframe users into the pre-migration activities and testing. ITS anticipates all testing will be completed and ready for the final migration to occur the weekend of November 18. Once migration is complete, WSU will enjoy a new, reliable, secure, and cost-effective mainframe solution to run applications and maintain services.
Welcome
About Us
We focus on quality customer service, collaboration, technical and functional expertise.
Enterprise Systems supports, maintains and develops enterprise level applications that are critical to the success of Washington State University. We focus on fostering strong collaborative relationships with entities on campus. This is done by focusing on customer service and working closely with all campus units. Enterprise Systems team of dedicated professionals work to ensure we meet our customers goals and business needs.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, and learning from failure. – Colin Powell
Our team is comprised of talented, functional and technical professionals.
It’s a transformational step in the evolution of enterprise level systems and solutions at Washington State University. Our team of functional experts, business analysts, and technical professionals:
- Combines cutting edge technology with advanced business thinking to deliver solutions to end users across the university.
- Unites functional professionals and technical experts in a truly cross functional team to break down traditional organizational silos and develop customer focused, sustainable enterprise level systems.
- Empowers team members with the latest tools, a new culture, and needed resources.
- Strives to meet user needs in everything we do.
Project Overview
Complex enterprise initiatives require project management.
Complex enterprise initiatives require the coordination of multiple technology streams and constituents. At Enterprise Systems we take project management serious and it is at the core of everything we do. We utilize Atlassian software to track projects and facilitate communication and collaboration with everyone we work with. We recognize that our projects require technical and functional knowledge and expertise from everyone involved with a project to be successful. This approach helps link project performance to milestones, specific tasks, and successful coordination of functional teams to address risks and meet project deadlines.
We believe in a transparent work environment.
Enterprise Systems recognizes that transparency drives team performance, task ownership, accountability and better communication. Transparency in our projects helps hold us and our partners accountable throughout the project. It eliminates surprises, promotes ownership and builds trust. It is key in helping us plan and develop project timelines and deliverables that can be met.
- For up-to-date information about our projects please view our latest monthly report.
- For a list of current projects please view our project list below.
Our Methodology
Enterprise Systems feels it is important that everyone understands our project methodology. This helps us establish expectations for everyone working on the project as well as a clear understanding of our procedures. Our methodology does change to ensure that we are always improving. While these changes are not often they do occur. If you are referring to the methodology please download the latest version from our website.
Submit a project to Enterprise Systems
Enterprise Systems is here to help. If you have a project that requires our assistance please complete our project request form.
Mainframe Modernization
Migrating to the Cloud
For over three decades now, WSU’s IBM mainframe, a highly secure and reliable platform for large-scale online and batch transaction processing, has effectively managed WSU’s business applications. With recent advancements in cloud-based technologies, WSU is now embracing the opportunity to transition to a mainframe cloud solution or Mainframe as a Service (MFaaS). MFaaS is a subscription service offering that addresses legacy mainframe challenges while providing scalability and flexible financial models to support growth. MFaaS allows operators to scale mainframe capacity to be in alignment with organization’s unique requirements.
Migration to the new MFaaS model provides WSU with the following immediate benefits:
- The MFaaS solution allows WSU to move away from the physical legacy mainframe located in the heart of Pullman campus’ Information Technology Services Data Center. WSU will now run applications and services within the IBM cloud-based MFaaS. This change allows WSU to replace end of life hardware, making our mainframe environment more dynamically sustainable and extends the lifespan of mission-critical applications.
- The IBM MFaaS solution runs within a Tier-4 Data Center, providing WSU an environment to run mainframe applications with the highest level of redundancy and security. This Tier-4 Data Center also offers options not available within current onsite mainframe environment.
- The IBM MFaaS cloud solution provides WSU additional disaster recovery options to ensure business continuity.
- The IBM cloud-based MFaaS also offers WSU significant future cost savings over the next several years, providing the ability to scale down services as we retire or modernize mainframe applications.
- The MFaaS model migration requires no major conversion efforts, thus maintaining critical business continuity during the migration. WSU will test the cloud-based service by running live mainframe applications, both on the onsite mainframe and the new cloud-based mainframe, to confirm all processes run identically prior to the final transition. Once all processes are confirmed, migration to the cloud will proceed, and ITS will retire the onsite mainframe.
The transition to the MFaaS subscription model is currently underway and the migration team is finalizing the project testing timeline. The team’s plan includes incorporating current mainframe users into the pre-migration activities and testing. ITS anticipates all testing will be completed and ready for the final migration to occur the weekend of November 18. Once migration is complete, WSU will enjoy a new, reliable, secure, and cost-effective mainframe solution to run applications and maintain services.