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Updates to the university’s event space scheduling platform are among many improvements made by ESET to modernize applications.

An essential facet of modernizing IT applications is achieving efficiency, not just without sacrificing user experience, but while actively enhancing it. Over the course of 2025, Enterprise Solutions and Enabling Technologies (ESET) made significant progress towards improving efficiency across several business and operational applications. These include: 

Students pose together at a glow-themed event with vibrant purple and orange lighting and a large illuminated HokieBird outline projected on the wall behind them.
Updates to the university’s event space scheduling platform are among many improvements made by ESET to modernize applications.
  • Consolidating time-clocking software onto the Banner Time Entry application, saving the university a projected $840,000 in licensing fees over four years, while providing a user-friendly time-tracking solution that is integrated with employee data.
  • In partnership with the Controller’s Office and Office of Sponsored Programs, eliminated technical debt, simplified future maintenance, improved access to critical data, and provided a better user experience by transitioning the functions of the legacy Research Financials application to a standardized and modern dashboard solution.  
  • Streamlined and standardized HokieMart invoicing by transitioning invoice integration from a high-maintenance custom process to the Ethos Integration platform.
  • Improved coordination and resource management for university room and event scheduling by expanding utilization of Accruent Event Management software
  • Improved efficiency and scalability and significantly reduced the multiplicity of custom system integrations by standardizing on the Boomi Integration Platform as a Service to facilitate inter-system data exchange and migrate legacy system data to new platforms.

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