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.
Modernize operations for efficiency and compliance
Boost operational efficiency with a portfolio of AI-enabled applications that optimize end-to-end processes.
Streamline processes and optimize resources
Automate routine tasks to free up time for staff to focus on faculty support, research outcomes, and student success.
Strengthen financial resilience
Optimize 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.
Optimize spending with synchronized 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 optimize programs.
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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
Optimize working capital and financial risk while automating tasks to streamline treasury workflows.
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Flexso NV Research Budget Management
Simplify and optimize 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 centralized, extensible funding model repository.
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