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  Workday rolls out enhancements and new features on September 9

  August 21, 2017

  

  Expect a brand new look for the Worker Profile, improved error messaging, and for managers, a new My Team Dashboard. These are part of a major upgrade to Workday — UW’s new, integrated, cloud-based human resource and payroll operations system — that happens twice a year, in September and March, to increase functionality and enhance the user experience.

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  Knowledge Navigator identifies HR and payroll reports affected by Workday

  August 18, 2017

  

  Use Knowledge Navigator, the metadata repository tool, to find reports that are replaced by Workday or are a new report in the Business Intelligence (BI) Portal by searching the list of enterprise reports. The BI Portal is your gateway to the UW's Enterprise Data Warehouse reporting and analytic tools. Questions? Email help@uw.edu with “Knowledge Navigator” in the subject line.

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  lolo stores more than a petabyte of data for UW researchers

  August 16, 2017

  

  More than a petabyte of research-critical data is protected on the lolo Archive, a centrally managed data archiving and file-sharing storage service that provides long-term safekeeping and fast, convenient retrieval. A petabyte of data storage can hold all the letters and words published, bound and shelved in 1,000 libraries, each the size of the UW Libraries. lolo is part of a scientific computing infrastructure operated by UW-IT, which includes lolo; Hyak, the shared cluster supercomputer; a research network to support fast data transfers; and consultation on high performance computing (including cloud computing) for research.

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  E-Resource: Caribbean Studies in Video: The Banyan Archive

  August 14, 2017

  

  Caribbean Studies in Video includes more than 1,000 hours of video that document the past 40 years of Caribbean life and culture. The collection — brought to you by the UW Libraries — features original Caribbean films and TV shows. Listen to interviews with artists like Derek Walcott and V.S. Naipaul and political activists like Aime Cesaire. Watch documentaries on cultural practices such as Trinidadian stick fighting and the Hindu Goddess Kali worship and watch carnival, calypso and steel band performances or enjoy theater and dance performances.

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  New phone area code brings changes to how you dial local digits in Western Washington

  August 11, 2017

  

  A new 564 area code is being added in Western Washington, which will affect the way you dial local numbers. The 206, 360, 253, 425 and the new 564 area code will require 10-digit dialing after Sept. 15 for campus phones. Make sure to reset your devices to comply with the new norm. New phone lines will be assigned the new 564 area code. Tip: UW phones already support 10-digit dialing.

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  New, faster computer storage has longer life, costs less, more efficient

  August 10, 2017

  

  Compared to its predecessor, the new storage solution for UW’s administrative applications triples performance, more than doubles the lifespan, costs 50 percent less, and reduces electricity by 75 percent. The new storage benefits UW-IT supported business systems and UW-IT customers, including UW-IT Standard Managed Servers and the self-sustaining storage area network data storage, among others.

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