Higher education and research
Achieving financial and operational resilience in higher education and research
Higher education and research institutions are using technology to operate efficiently within limited budgets while dedicating resources to help equip students for the future.
Our higher 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
Find out how our customers are using higher education and research software solutions from SAP
Higher education and research software from SAP and our partners
Increase cost-effectiveness and achieve sustainable growth at your institution with these higher education software solutions.
Optimized resource usage
Support efficient and agile processes to maximize resource value and help deliver measurable cross-campus and online campus results.
Enterprise portfolio and project management
Benefit from flexible support for your enterprise portfolio and project management processes and integrate finance and logistics information.
Process optimization
Understand, proactively manage, and optimize your processes to deliver transparent and efficient systems that effectively service institutions.
Asset management
Maintain the performance of institutional assets with real-time insights, the IoT, machine learning, mobility, and advanced predictive analytics.
Human experience management
Put your people at the center of everything and create AI-powered experiences that drive efficiency and create value.
Core HR and payroll
Support your educational or research institution employees with core HR, payroll, time tracking, benefits admin, and HR service delivery.
Talent management
Address skills gaps with solutions for talent intelligence, recruiting, onboarding, performance, compensation, and learning and development.
Labor relations and safety management
Deploy lifecycle support for tenure, sabbatical, seniority, grievances, job bidding, liberation management, and safety inspections.
Procurement
Rethink the educational procurement experience to streamline processes, drive compliance, and guide users to the best choices.
Supplier management
Deliver improved value to your institution by managing supplier lifecycles, performance, and risk all in one place.
External workforce and services
Drive better outcomes for your institution with a single solution that helps you find, engage, and manage your external workforce.
Travel and expense management
Connect travel and expenses for educational or research institution employees with invoice management for greater visibility and control.
Artificial intelligence
Benefit from built-in AI for your institution’s core processes, connecting finance, procurement, human resources, and IT.
Low-code app development and automation
Use intuitive, drag-and-drop tools to create enterprise apps, automate processes, and design business sites.
Integration
Innovate and optimize by connecting and automating processes with proven prebuilt integrations, APIs, connectors, and best practices.
Extended planning and analysis
Connect people and plans across educational or research institutions to take enterprise planning to the next level.
Research budget management
Kick-start the digitalization of research administration by enabling straightforward yet detailed budget entry for your research projects.
Enterprise portfolio and project management
Benefit from flexible support for your enterprise portfolio and project management processes and integrate finance and logistics information.
Data and analytics
Use data insights to analyze and simulate scenarios to plan and optimize operations at educational and research institutions.
Data foundation
Use database technology that runs transactions and analytics on multi-model data at petabyte scale in one solution.
Data management
Identify, gather, analyze, and make available the most context-relevant data throughout your institution.
Data governance
Improve the quality of critical institutional information with a central hub for master data management and governance.
Improve operations at your higher 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
Harmonize disparate data sources across the organization 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.
Resources
See the new innovations
Discover the latest release for higher education and research, including new features to streamline budget and grants management.
Optimize experiences with intelligent technologies
Embrace AI and machine learning and provide hands-on experience to help students prepare for the jobs of the future.
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Road map for higher education and research solutions
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