In the fall of 2016, a campus leadership group from representative university administrative areas and Information Technology Services began a discussion of Baylor's enterprise systems and their potential replacement, focusing on the Human Resources, Payroll, Financial Systems, and Grants Management.
Over the next 18 months, this group engaged others in the campus departments involved to define needs, to attend demonstrations of potential solutions (two sets of demos held a year apart), to contact colleague institutions who had recently selected new systems, to evaluate options, and to keep the Board of Regents apprised of the status of the review. In the late spring of 2018, proposals from potential new ERP partners were received and assessed, and a selection was made for recommendation to the Board. In addition, a review by Baylor's Office of Internal Audit was completed regarding the process and selection. In May of 2018, the Board of Regents approved moving forward on a contract with Oracle for their cloud-based human resources (HCM), financial (ERP), planning and budgeting (PBCS) systems, as well as their integrated analytics, reporting, and business intelligence solutions.