Dynamic Administrative Systems for Higher Ed (DASH)
What is the University of Tennessee’s DASH Program?
After two decades of service, the University of Tennessee’s Systems Applications and Products platform—known throughout the university as IRIS—will no longer be supported in 2025 as software providers are moving the industry to cloud-based solutions. Given the central role that IRIS plays in processing all of UT’s financial and human resources activities, UT officials began planning in 2019 for the transition to a new, cloud-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, known as DASH (Dynamic Administrative Systems for Higher Ed). We are working toward a systemwide go live of finance, human resources, and payroll in 2025.
Project Scope
Status: Complete ✓
- Business Process Review
- Statewide Focus Group Meetings
- Knoxville HR Business Process Mappings
- Statewide Future State Meetings
- Oracle Selected as Vendor
- Accenture Selected as Implementation Partner
Status: Complete ✓
- Establish Governance Processes
- Create Detailed Project Plan
- Conduct Kick-Off Meetings with Transition Management Team and Project Team members
Status: Complete ✓
- Finance Begins September 1; Human Resources Begins November 1
- Decision-Driven Design Workshops
- Complete High-Level Design
- Create Configuration/Solution Blueprint for Functional and Technical Scope
Status: Complete ✓
- Design and Build of the Solution and Data
- Technical/Functional Test and Demo of Working Software
- Mock Conversions to View UT Data in DASH
- Complete Initial Security Design
Status: Complete ✓
- Data Migration Testing
- User Acceptance Testing
- System Integration Testing
- Payroll Parallel Testing
Status: Implementation In Process
- End User Training
- Go-Live with DASH
Team Members
- Chandra Alston
- Todd Barber
- Mike Ebbs
- Jada Harding
- Vikki Massey
- Brittney Murray
- Mike Ebbs
- Kimberly Moore
- Jonathan Lawshe
- Trent Pitts
- Byron Porter
- Brenda Murrell
- Michelle Newman
- Chandra Alston
- Brittney Murray
- Debbie Jackson
- Debbie Long
- Anesha Jones
- Michael Alston
- Rosa Gilmore
- Todd Barber
- Vikki Massey
- Lisa Hall
- Edwin Jeffres
- Andrea Kolen
- LaTisha Williams
- Tim Barton