Attracting a diverse and talented student population, adapting to online learning, mixed modes, B2B & B2C scenarios, and international campuses, and climbing the academic rankings. Higher education has a lot of challenges on its plate, and they all have significant impact on your business model. Here’s how to become future-proof with a next-generation IT strategy that lets you gain analytical insights while supporting the entire student journey.
International student mobility and a growing consumerist attitude in students are intensifying the war for talent. For institutions, the number and variety of regional and global competitors is rising fast. With public funding of higher education under pressure, it is often the students that end up paying the price. Which makes them, rightly so, even more demanding in terms of the academic path they want to carve out for themselves. Students have come to expect better value for money, intuitive student apps, and full support throughout their journey.
To survive in this increasingly competitive environment, you must rethink delivery models for teaching, learning, and, finally, administration, so they can capitalize on change now rather than being consumed by it.
These are the four trends that will help you come out on top if you are able to incorporate them in your strategy:
Reimagining student and employee experiences from recruitment to alumni, will help you to withstand these challenges in higher education. And in this digital world – that is increasingly taking place in the cloud – embedding these new ways of looking at the student journey in your IT strategy will be a key-driver for success.
Here’s the key to meeting emerging trends and challenges in higher education and drive student success and a great student and employee experience:
The key to becoming a “Smart University” is to integrate and manage the entire student lifecycle – from prospect to alumnus. By communicating, collaborating, and supporting students throughout their journey, you can improve student satisfaction and strengthen student success.
SAP provides a full suite of analytics solutions that can turn this data into real insight. Take advantage of in-depth data analysis, predictions, and processing of complex events, and combine data from a variety of sources into a single integrated platform.
With a single platform for commerce, universities can reach students on all channels and promote their offerings. Online shops enable students and prospects to browse products or services on any device. They can enroll in online courses or purchase branded merchandise or course materials.
As more and more millenials enter the workforce, staff and university faculties are becoming more demanding. To increase internal efficiency universities need to provide all employees, from academic staff to administration, with access to advanced technology and mobile self-service tools.
Having supported over 30 major higher learning institutions across the globe, NTT DATA Business Solutions has a deep understanding of the industry’s current trends and challenges.
Thanks to our Education Competence Center, we can draw on a specialist team of experts, dedicated to supporting digital transformation in higher education. They help you leverage SAP solutions and find the best solutions for your needs – so you can deliver exceptional student experiences.
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The rising expectations from students to get better value and full support throughout their student lifecycle journey, the expectation of lifelong learning and growing competition create a tremendous challenge for higher education institutes every day.
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Na het lezen van deze whitepaper weet je als onderwijsinstelling alles over de trends en uitdagingen binnen het hoger onderwijs van vandaag; - Hoe je analytisch inzicht genereert en een toekomstvast digitaal platform neerzet - Hoe je inspeelt op de wensen van de hedendaagse student - Wat de beste keuzes zijn in B2B- en B2C-scenario’s - Welke stappen je kan zetten om een nóg slimmere universiteit te worden.
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To establish superior student and faculty engagements, the university must become intelligent, which also means to become resilient, able to adapt, run efficiently and drive long-term growth.
As students become increasingly empowered and demanding, universities have to get smarter and digitize. To help them through this transformation, we support leading higher education institutions with strategic consulting, customized software, and our own dedicated Education Competence Center.
Marc van den Berk, Manager for Customer Engagement and Commerce Solutions, Western Europe, NTT DATA Business Solutions BV
Public research university with 24 academic schools offering around 175 fulltime undergraduate degree programmes
City, University of London uses SAP Business Warehouse (SAP BW) to support management decision making. The benefits that SAP BW can bring are endless for the University with student data being an integral part of reporting.
We now have far better performance from our BI platform with enhanced dashboard reporting and we have scaled up to more than 3,000 users.
SuccessFactors met UC's business requirements, especially given the University’s need to integrate the new recruiting solution with their existing SAP HCM on-premise system.
"Student lifecycle management in één systeem, live inzicht, toegankelijk voor anderstalige studenten, dat biedt it.education." Hans Oeloff, Directeur Servicecentrum Informatie, Saxion Hogescholen
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