What a great year it has been, and we couldn’t be happier to share it with you. As the year comes to a close, the snow starts falling, and cheers ring out, we want to pause for a moment and reflect on what this year looked like for Kuali Ready.
Let’s dive in with a few fascinating 2019 Ready statistics for you. Currently Ready has 113 customers, with a total of 7,975 departmental plans, and 39,122 critical functions.
Kuali Ready and the Ready team grew with new team members and prestigious institutions in 2019. Join us in welcoming, with warm wishes and open arms, a few of our new institutions to the community:
And these team members:
We are excited to continually be improving our software and services. We are now offering three categories of customizable services to help with your continuity planning needs. Some examples of our offerings are plan-writing workshops, tabletop exercises, building a continuity roadmap to maturity, and impact analysis. The service offering categories are:
We’d love to help you champion continuity planning at your institution. Contact Tony Benjamins or Hank Bowman, to learn more or schedule a training. If you don’t see the training and support you need, let us know. We’re happy to support you in any way we can.
As a part of the ongoing improvements, the Ready team works continuously to improve the user experience. While many changes we make are not viewable to the user, but rather are in the back end of the application to make Ready perform more efficiently, you may notice some of the new features or changes. Some of the more significant changes are:
You can find more information on these changes here: New Feature Flag and Contacts Reorganization
Ready was excited for the opportunity to facilitate two webinars in 2019, both of which were packed with valuable information for our Ready community.
If you’re interested in participating in a webinar you think would be valuable to the Ready community, or if you have a topic of interest you would like to see presented as a webinar, please reach out to terri@kuali.co.
Last month, at the request of many of our users, we launched a LinkedIn group for Higher Ed Continuity Planners and Emergency Managers as a forum to connect and interact with your peers.
Please join in the conversation by posting questions to the group, sharing your experiences and challenges, letting your peers know the conferences you’ll be attending, or other information you’d like to share. Join the Kuali Ready community in the group here.
We’re excited to share a preview of just a few of the new features or functionality we’re planning for you in 2020:
In February 2020, Kuali will be holding the annual Kuali Days conference, which this year will be held in beautiful Midway, Utah. But the really exciting thing is… This Is The First Year That Kuali Days Will Have A Ready Track.
Come join us to network with your Ready peers, enhance your knowledge around continuity planning and beyond, learn some tips and tricks in using Ready effectively, all while earning CEAPs for your professional certifications. For more information and registration visit us here.
Overall, it’s been a great year for Kuali Ready, and we’re ramping up for an even better year in 2020. We’re excited and looking forward to strengthening our community through interaction and sharing of ideas. We’re excited about iteratively improving your user experience in Ready and adding new features and functionality. We’re excited to meet you all at Kuali Days 2020, and we’re excited to continue to help you all in building the culture of resilience across your institutions.
Please, take this three (3) question Ready survey and tell us about your 2019. We will share your responses anonymously with the community.
We, the Ready Team, wish all of you and your loved ones a beautifully blessed holiday season. Enjoy your break and we’ll see you all in the new year.