The implementation of a new suite of CUNYfirst software applications represents the most significant enhancement to CUNY's administrative systems and processes in a generation. This multi-year effort to replace our legacy systems with a modern CUNYfirst System has involved hundreds of members of our CUNY community. Scores of administrators have labored to define business and systems requirements in the format necessary to conduct this very complex procurement for software and services.

The CUNYfirst Project will span multiple years. CUNY will work closely with its implementation partners to define a timeline and a process that matches the University's priorities. CUNY currently anticipates that the deployment of the CUNYfirst System will begin in 2008, and continue over a two- to three-year period.