Education and research
Foster innovation, efficiency, and growth to advance your institution’s goals
Support research and student success, enhance operations and collaboration, and adapt to institutional change with integrated applications, data, and AI.
Education and research software from SAP can help you:
Improve financial stewardship with best-in-class budgeting and grants management.
Unlock the power of data to gain deeper insights for institutional planning.
Enhance and automate operations with AI insights and agents.
Achieve savings using analytics to understand where money is being spent.
Connect front-line support with operations to deliver great service experiences.
Modernise operations for efficiency and compliance
Boost operational efficiency with a portfolio of AI-enabled applications that optimise end-to-end processes.
Streamline processes and optimise resources
Automate routine tasks to free up time for staff to focus on faculty support, research outcomes, and student success.
Strengthen financial resilience
Optimise funding and grants, align budgets with priorities, and direct resources toward long-term institutional success.
Explore how solutions from SAP and partners can help your institution run better
Improve student success, faculty support, and research outcomes with a unified suite of solutions.
Enterprise resource management
Serve students and faculty more effectively with an integrated solution designed to help you:
Adhere to education best practices by applying preconfigured processes.
Optimise spending with synchronised finance and grants data.
Improve budgeting with tools to control funds earmarked for personnel.
Allocate resources more effectively with real-time data insights.
Streamline accounting processes to improve stewardship of funds.
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Budget planning and grants management
Simplify grants management with automated workflows to reduce unnecessary expenditures and optimise programmes.
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Asset management
Reduce costs and streamline operations with integrated maintenance planning, asset monitoring, and work order management.
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Enterprise portfolio and project management
Improve efficiency with real-time integration between project management, finance, and grants reporting and compliance processes.
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Treasury management
Optimise working capital and financial risk while automating tasks to streamline treasury workflows.
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Planon Real Estate Management for SAP S/4HANA
Manage real estate data, finances, and properties. Integrate smart building tech for the ideal work and learning environment.
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Flexso NV Research Budget Management
Simplify and optimise budget management with entry, simulation, and calculation for research projects.
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Flexso NV research Funding Model Management
Streamline reporting and adapt funder rules to every project with a centralised, extensible funding model repository.
Workforce management
Drive better workforce outcomes and efficiency by unifying people data and processes to:
Support retention with personalised learning journeys and meaningful career guidance.
Control personnel budgets via position financing and earmarked funds.
Help faculty and staff reach peak performance with customised growth plans.
Efficiently manage concurrent employment in a single platform.
Integrate HR data to identify employee risks and opportunities faster.
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Core HR and payroll management
Simplify processes and increase workforce agility with a single, unified platform for core HR, time tracking, and payroll.
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Talent management
Empower your institution to succeed using a unified system to recruit, on-board, develop, track, and reward employees.
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Workforce analytics
Make more informed HR decisions and drive organisational performance based on actionable insights into workforce data.
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Workforce management
Optimise staffing, control labour costs, and help ensure compliance with automation, real-time insights, and seamless integration.
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Sodales for Enterprise Health, Safety and Employee Relations
Keep pace with regulations and improve safety with easy configuration, connected reporting, and secure data controls.
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SAP Time and Attendance Management by WorkForce Software
Gain visibility into workforce costs and improve workforce optimisation.
Student and faculty services management
Streamline service using AI, automation, and integration to:
Resolve service issues faster by uniting processes end to end.
Provide proactive support with AI-powered chatbots.
Improve service experiences by seamlessly routing issues to field service teams.
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Service management
Improve accuracy and speed up issue resolution with integrated front and backend processes and intuitive case management.
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Unified commerce experiences
Simplify student engagement with straightforward access to personalised information and self-services.
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Institutional data management
Deliver rewarding student, staff, and faculty engagements by unifying data for a complete view that enhances personalisation.
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NTT Data Business Solutions B.V. SIS Simplified
Optimise student lifecycle management with automation, data-driven insights, and personalised support.
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Si6 Associates Student Acquisition Module
Boost collaboration for student candidates with campaign management, activity tracking, outreach, and issue management.
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Si6 Associates Student Admission Portal and Curriculum Catalogue
Streamline operations and enhance the user experience for students and staff by centralising info and automating processes.
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Si6 Associates Educational Platform for Enterprises
Improve the entire student experience with a solution tailored to support the student journey from start to finish.
Education analytics
Use data analytics enhanced with AI for speed, accuracy, and advanced insights to:
Mitigate risk with automated anomaly detection.
Shape institutional strategy and measure progress with deep data insights.
Anticipate future challenges with AI-driven scenario planning.
Make better decisions that affect student success with higher data quality.
Improve learning, planning, and research with analytical findings.
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SAP Databricks
Improve student outcomes, research, and operations with tools to connect SAP and third-party data, support AI apps, and foster reliable AI.
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Advanced analytics and planning
Unlock the full potential of your institution's data with real-time insights enabled by AI/ML and collaborative planning.
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Access mission-critical business data
Improve research management, student success, and operations with insights from a unified platform for student, finance, and research data.
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AI and ML
Improve institutional success with AI-enhanced apps that learn from your data, execute workflows, and act on your behalf.
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Opendatasoft Data Portal
Make data accessible at scale, ensure usability, and facilitate insights with a centralised, organised, and collaborative platform.
Spend optimisation
Anticipate, respond, and adapt to changes with modern procurement solutions that help you:
Gain visibility into comprehensive spend data with advanced analytics.
Reduce costs and exceptions with improved supplier collaboration.
Increase efficiency and accuracy with automated invoice processing.
Make smarter purchases with AI-generated recommendations from a central catalogue.
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Travel and expense management
Ensure visibility and control of expenses with streamlined institutional travel and expense management.
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Supplier management
Accelerate onboarding, reduce risk, and enhance experience with comprehensive lifecycle supplier management.
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Procurement strategy
Optimise institutional procurement with advanced analytics and data-driven insights to implement your procurement strategy.
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Procurement
Streamline processes, ensure compliance, and guide optimal choices for campus and school-associated spend.
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Icertis Contract Intelligence for SAP Fieldglass
Maximise the value of external labour-based spend with streamlined contract management.
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Icertis Contract Intelligence for SAP Ariba
Control institutional spend and reduce risk with contract lifecycle management across the full source-to-pay process.
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