Education and research

Our education and research software helps you adapt to change while delivering an enhanced user experience.
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Achieving financial and operational resilience in education and research

Education and research organisations are using technology to operate efficiently within limited budgets while dedicating resources to help equip students for the future.

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Our education software and research solutions can help you:

  • Implement intelligent finance and accountability

  • Accelerate research processes while supporting effective grants management, accounting, and reporting 

  • Enable smart campuses for a better student experience

  • Take advantage of AI-based technology

  • Develop agile learning hubs for faculty and staff

Education and research software from SAP and our partners

Increase cost-effectiveness and achieve sustainable growth at your institution with these education software solutions.

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Optimised resource usage

Support efficient and agile processes to maximise resource value and help deliver measurable cross-campus and online campus results.

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Enterprise portfolio and project management

Benefit from flexible support for your enterprise portfolio and project management processes and integrate finance and logistics information.

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Process optimisation

Understand, proactively manage, and optimise your processes to deliver transparent and efficient systems that effectively service your organisation.

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Asset management

Maintain the performance of institutional assets with real-time insights, the IoT, machine learning, mobility, and advanced predictive analytics.

Discover SAP Business Suite

See how SAP cloud ERP applications, SAP Business AI, and SAP Business Data Cloud come together to deliver exceptional value for your organisation.

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Improve operations at your education and research institution

Learn how our solutions can help your institution grow and digitally transform.

Shared services model

Move from siloed departmental environments to shared services with a cloud ERP solution that provides scalable access to business data.

Data-driven decision making and AI

Harmonise disparate data sources across the organisation for improved planning, predictive analytics, and data-driven decision making.

AI for budget and grants management

Improve user satisfaction and efficiency by using Joule to navigate apps for budget management, grants management, and fund accounting.

See how customers are succeeding with SAP solutions for education and research

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See the new innovations

Discover the latest release for education and research, including new features to streamline budget and grants management.

SAP S/4HANA Cloud named a Leader

Explore why Gartner® named SAP S/4HANA Cloud a Leader in its 2024 Magic Quadrant™ reports for cloud ERP for service-centric enterprises.

80% less time for month-end reporting

See how Zymeworks automated its processes, creating a single source of data and improving operational transparency.

Streamline university operations

See how the University of Toronto unified its administrative back end to improve efficiency, savings, and decision-making.

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Road map for education and research solutions

See how our innovations help universities, schools, and research organisations on the digitalisation journey.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud ERP for Service-Centric Enterprises, Robert Anderson, Denis Torii, Sam Grinter, Naveen Mahendra, Tomas Kienast, Johan Jartelius, 4 November 2024.

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