The Student and Staff Engagement Platform

Redesigning financial processes can support instant financial insight across devices to help an institution drive value and leverage instant planning, analysis, prediction, and simulation across financial and operational processes. At the same time, these new processes can significantly simplify the IT landscape and architecture.

As more and more millennials 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.

Streamline procurement processes across the university, driving compliance and control while cutting costs and risks. From Operational Purchasing, Guided End-User Buying, Supplier Management, Invoice Management and Accounts Payable, the level of integration, automation and collaboration in the supplier network will accelerate value for the institution.

Typically universities have lots of data but very little good information. 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.

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.

Effective higher education marketing strategies should treat each and every student, both current and prospective, as an individual. This means segmenting students and analysing their past, present and future actions to make personalised recommendations and offers in real-time.

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 and services on any device, so they can enroll in online courses or purchase branded merchandise or course materials, for example.

Student Number Planning is an essential requirement that has a knock-on effect to nearly all departments – especially the finance team, so they can forecast and calculate fees. Our Higher Education Planning Kit overcomes the bottlenecks and resource intensive activities associated with solution implementation and administration by providing a fully hosted solution including a system administrator service to address application changes, new user security set up and reporting changes. The comprehensive out of the box solution guides you through the collection, aggregation and monitoring of your budget and forecast data;

• Proven application design leveraging best practices to provide a solid foundation for student number planning and financial forecasting
• Reduces the mechanics of the planning process providing work flow and commentary for approvals
• Enables data and meta-data management between transactional systems, Business Intelligence solutions and the itelligence Higher Education Planning Solution
• Flexible and extensible framework extending the solutions useful life

Offering a holistic, comprehensive overview of students in one centralised location, the Student Activity Hub brings together a wealth of student data to help you understand why students succeed, fail, or drop out. You can manage and analyse student and learning activity data using the insight to personalise the learning experience and build student success and intervention strategies. SAP Student Activity Hub integrates data from key campus systems, acting as a data aggregator for your existing applications. This adaptable solution, based on open data standards, links with your current systems – integrating all your data together into a comprehensive analytics engine.