Education and research

Discover how SAP can help your institution streamline operations, deliver student success, secure funding, and strengthen compliance.
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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.

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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.

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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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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 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.

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 organization.

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

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SAP named a Leader in public sector ERP

Explore why Gartner® named SAP a Leader in its 2025 Magic Quadrant™ for Cloud-Based ERP for U.S. Local Government.

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Find out why SAP was recognized as a Leader for ability to execute in the Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Source-to-Pay Suites.

SAP recognized as a Leader in iPaaS

SAP is positioned as the vendor with the highest ability to execute in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™.

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Choose modular, AI-enabled solutions tailored to your institution priorities—finance, supply chain, HR, procurement, or services—and change at your pace.

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Frequently asked questions

SAP Business Suite offers education institutions a fully unified, modular set of solutions that integrate AI, data, and applications. Institutions can use these solutions to optimize every function, from back- to front-office operations.

We recommend exploring product capabilities, requesting a demo, or consulting SAP experts to get started.

SAP Cloud ERP integrates financials, grants, budgeting, procurement, project management, HR, and services—empowering you to optimize operations, improve resilience and strengthen the overall organizational framework.

SAP helps institutions make informed policy, planning, and operational decisions in real time with combined business and sustainability data optimized by AI.

Yes, our partner ecosystem includes a wide range of business process extensions, such as enhanced budget formulation, enterprise content management and employee safety. Our services partners support education organizations with implementation and advisory services. Explore the full catalog of SAP partner applications in SAP Store, or search for service partners on SAP Partner Finder app.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Cloud-Based ERP for U.S. Local Government, Albert Gauthier, Robert Stoneman, Todd Kimbriel, 19 May 2025.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Source-to-Pay Suites, Micky Keck, Kaitlynn Sommers, Balaji Abbabatulla, Cian Curtin, Lynne Phelan, Chaithanya Paradarami, Martin Shreffler, 24 March 2025.

Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Integration Platform as a Service, Andrew Humphreys, Andrew Comes, Keith Guttridge, Allan Wilkins, 19 May 2025.

 

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