Entries by Karen Grandinetti
CHESSTER’s Big Adventure Brings Miles of Smiles
CHESSTER’s Big Adventure: Bringing Our Workday Student Journey to Life In January 2026, CHESSTER—the beloved CHESS mascot—set off on a Big Adventure, traveling across our member colleges during our recent Customer Confirmation Sessions (CCS) and End-to-End (E2E) Testing meetings. While the agendas were full of detailed discussions, testing scenarios, and critical decision-making, CHESSTER’s presence added […]
The Role of ERP Systems in Enabling Shared Services
The Role of ERP Systems in Enabling Shared Services At the heart of every successful shared services model lies a powerful, integrated system that connects people, processes, and data. For CHESS, that system is Workday—a modern, cloud-based Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) platform that enables our member colleges to operate as a unified, collaborative network. But what […]