Noah Peschio
In March of 2016, the University of Wyoming designed and put into action a new Enterprise Management System (EMS). The system allowed businesses to manage key aspects of day-to-day business.
“I had very little experience with the previous system, so this is all I really know,” said ASUW Advisor Aaron Lozano. “I don’t have to do a lot of double checking, because I know it’s right,”
WyoCloud has had a learning curve that students and faculty alike took some time getting used to, but this does not mean it is impossible either.
Lozano said because he had little experience with other systems, it was simple to learn, and easier to use.
WyoCloud’s interface is showing promise to the faculty in the way of efficiency and accuracy. With such a steep learning curve, there are bound to be bumps along the way, but with time WyoCloud could make the university more efficient in business practices.
“[The] institution’s strategic plan [is] to build long-term strength and stability of the university,” according to the WyoCloud homepage.
The long-term goal is what the designers of WyoCloud were aiming for, according to the homepage of WyoCloud. However, there are two sides to this story. There are going to be some that get frustrated with the system just as there are some that are approving of the system.
“I spend somewhere between 35% and 40% of my job working in WyoCloud,” said ASUW accountant Shelly Schaef, “and where I get the most frustrated with it is when I try to access information or historical data.”
With that amount of time spent in the system, the learning curve is gone and it is a matter of using it for efficiency day in and day out.
“If I submit something, I have to go in and approve that myself, and that’s a little annoying, but it takes two seconds out of my day,” said Lozano.
Lozano mentions this out of frustration because as the approving advisor of WyoCloud actions for ASUW, he must approve his own actions. However, he said this is a minor problem because it does not add much difficulty to the day to day work, and does not take a lot of time.
“For what I do, it works well, but I’ve heard some rumblings,” said Lozano.
“It complicates a system that doesn’t need to be complicated,” said university employee Ryan Crawford.
Crawford is talking about the Human Capital Management (HCM) portion of WyoCloud. He said the old system was suited to what he needed it for better than HCM.
While it can be difficult to use and to learn for those not invested in the system in everyday life, WyoCloud has made steps in the right direction to improve business efficiency for the university.
