SAP for Higher Education & Research provides a portfolio of highly scalable solutions designed to meet the unique needs of public and private universities, multicampus institutions, research agencies, and medical colleges. The solutions are powered by the SAP NetWeaver platform, which allows you to create applications on top of existing infrastructure and fully leverage current IT investments – for long-term adaptability, lower costs, and flexible response to changing strategies.

SAP's solutions support the full range of organizational processes, including:

• Student life-cycle management – Supports all aspects of the student life cycle, manages the student academic cycle with individualized workplaces, and enhances the student experience via an integrated Web-based solution.
• Grants and funds management – Helps organizations compete for and manage a variety of department and sponsored grant programs, endowments, and research awards, and provides accurate information on financial activities and transactions.
• Financial management, budgeting, and planning – Supports proactive financial planning, real-time budget visibility, and consolidated financial reporting; streamlines cash flow activities; and optimizes financial transactions.
• Relationship management, institutional development, and enrollment management – Provides multichannel communication to internal and external constituents and helps decision makers manage enrollment and promote continuing education.
• Governance and compliance – Ensures transparent business activity; configures controls to define rules and tolerances and customize internal processes for security, reporting, and error prevention; and documents all internal control processes.
• Human capital management – Simplifies and streamlines workforce-related processes; supports the employee life cycle in one unified, integrated application; aligns employee goals with organizational goals; and integrates essential processes.
• Procurement – Minimizes costs, supports plan-driven and ad hoc purchasing, conducts accurate spend analysis, ensures compliance with procurement best practices, enhances supplier relationships, and enables procurement self-service.
• Enterprise asset management – Reduces maintenance costs; improves capital expenditures management; increases property, equipment, plant, and facility utilization; and enables mobile asset management with integrated RFID.
• Business services – Streamlines administrative processes, improves efficiencies in real estate management and project portfolio management, and provides real-time project visibility on important key figures over multiple projects.
• Performance management – Integrates, analyzes, and disseminates business-critical information from SAP and non-SAP systems; tracks performance; fulfills reporting requirements, and creates and publishes customized, interactive reports.