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Education sector is an important vertical for SAP. The Education industry comprises of public and private institutions that span early childhood to higher education. Continuing education as well as online education are new additions to the sector. Digital campuses and mobile learning are creating significant disruption and generating new and evolved expectations from consumers.
SAP and partner solutions for education
A wide range of solutions are available from SAP and its partners for various elements of the education sector:
Education sector is an important vertical for SAP. The Education industry comprises of public and private institutions that span early childhood to higher education. Continuing education as well as online education are new additions to the sector. Digital campuses and mobile learning are creating significant disruption and generating new and evolved expectations from consumers.
SAP and partner solutions for education
A wide range of solutions are available from SAP and its partners for various elements of the education sector:
- Online tools deliver exceptional end-to-end student experience ranging from courses, grades, research, billing, scholarships, etc.
- HCM solutions support gig economy and floating teaching workforce to deliver maximum value
- Finance solution brings together all financial process and provides high-quality analytics to manage financial goals
- Analytics and data help mine student engagement and deliver higher quality, tailored education and meet revenue goals
- Integration and development solutions enable integration of the expanding set of tools with SAP and provide seamless experience
- Artificial Intelligence helps develop guidance and insights for a tailored learning experience.
With increasing pressure to transform as well as the budget pressures, educational institutions can leverage such technologies to operate nimbly and efficiently while also responding to student demand for new models of learning.
Key Considerations for SAPinsiders:
Several higher education institutions have achieved significant benefits through SAP and partner solutions.
- Case Study: A new age of expense and reimbursement management at Johns Hopkins. Read thiscase study on how Johns Hopkins made the move to SAP Concur for expense management to simplify and speed their expense and reimbursement process
- Case study: How Texas’s largest school district implemented an SAP budgeting and planning solution. Read insights from this case study on Houston independent school district implemented budgeting and planning by leveraging master data from source systems for the purpose of budgeting, centralize employee calculations and leveraging SAP SBP-standard PEP engine functionality as much as possible for projections
- Case Study: Duke University Men’s Basketball Enhances Digital Playbook. Read case study on how Duke University used SAP HANA to use computational algorithms to provide context of in-game performance across the history of the program
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