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OneRF is powered by Workday, a best-in-class, cloud-based Human Capital Management and Financial Management system. We anticipate OneRF bringing greater transparency, real-time data, and streamlined administrative processing overall. We expect that this, in turn, will allow CUNY faculty to focus more time on research and less time on administrative processing. Since the very start of this project, OneRF has been guided by four principles:

  1. Standardization: OneRF integrates and evolves RFCUNY’s human resources, grants administration, procurement, and financial processes in one system for the first time. This unification will improve user experience, customer service, and reporting by allowing you to perform many important tasks through one easy-to-use portal.
  2. Efficiency: Through its Workday platform, OneRF automates many processes that are currently manual. For example, OneRF’s new main page features automatic notifications and a personalized to-do list, reducing administrative burden, minimizing redundancies, and delivering accurate, easy-to-understand information.
  3. User Friendliness: OneRF’s Workday system has many user-centric, self-service features, improving workflows and increasing the timeliness of information available. The system’s robust search engine allows users to rapidly find and access the information and processes they need, while the unified menu and global navigation will bring an intuitive structure.
  4. Transparency: OneRF reduces complexity and give greater on-demand insight into our processes, including real-time activity and expenditure tracking. OneRF will also provide numerous on-demand and customizable reports to allow you to see exactly what needs to happen and what actions you need to take.

RFCUNY made these changes as we are constantly seeking to align our processes with current best practices, as we work to improve and evolve our systems that serve the CUNY community. RFCUNY began implementation of OneRF in the fall of 2024 because many of the systems we were using for finance, grants management, procurement, and human resources were approaching sunset, while modern, cloud-based systems offer greater efficiency and customer support. Concurrently, vendors that provide some of the services we used were reducing or ending their support. In response, RFCUNY worked throughout 2024 and 2025 to identify a new vendor for these services and selected Workday, an industry-leading, best-in-class solution, as the platform that powers OneRF.

OneRF modernizes and unites RFCUNY systems by providing standardized, efficient, and transparent processes that will benefit CUNY faculty, Principal Investigators, Grants Officers, and RFCUNY staff. OneRF’s software streamlines processes like grant management and administration, recruitment and hiring, and financial management. The interface also offers one platform that provides real-time information to users equally well on mobile devices and large monitors.
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