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About Talon

Kick Off

The Talon system moves us towards operational excellence. The new system is based on Oracle’s industry-leading Fusion Cloud web platform. A modern suite of cloud-based applications encompassing human resources, finance, supply chain, and payroll abilities. The system will be efficient, intuitive, and easy to use. Some key features that make this system user-friendly include:

  • Intuitive interfaces
  • Self-service
  • Robust reporting
  • Forecasting
  • Dashboards

 

Project Goals

The new system will meet the following requirements:

  • Leverage industry best practices available in modern cloud system

  • Deliver a system with minimum customizations

  • Improve business process and continuity

  • Improve employee engagement and hiring processes

  • Leverage technical advancements and innovations from a cloud solution

  • Leverage real time data analytics and reporting

  • Utilize efficient and modern mobile capabilities

 

Partnerships

Tennessee Tech is partnered with Oracle and a vendor for the duration of this project. Oracle is an innovative, world-class, global company and provides industry best practice HR and finance processes in cloud-based applications. With the right partners, this project can be realized and serve as an integral component of one of the main pillars of the Tennessee Tech’s Strategic Plans.

 

Governance

Project Governance is the set of rules, procedures and policies that determine how projects are managed and overseen. These rules and procedures define how decisions are made during projects. As part of the oversight process, project governance also determines the metrics by which project success is measured. These concepts are applied to the Tennessee Tech initiative by select Tennessee Tech staff. This is accomplished by using executive sponsors, a steering committee, lead project manager, stakeholders and various functional teams.

 

Project Staff

Talon Executive Sponsors

  • Dr. Claire Stinson, Vice President Planning & Finance

  • Brian Seiler, Chief Information Officer

Talon Executive Steering Committee

  • Emily Wheeler, Associate Vice President Business Office

  • Kevin Vedder, Associate Vice President Human Resources

Talon Leads

  • Kacee Abbott, Controller Business Office

  • Matt Smith, Director Business Office

  • Sherry Howard, Director Human Resources

  • Donna Wallis, Director Purchasing and Contracts

  • Rick Fletcher, Director Project Manager

  • Matt Silva, Director Technical Manager

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