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SAP Industry Overview SAP for Higher Education & Research
SAP for HigHer educAtion & reSeArcH SolutionSTRAnSfoRming THE BuSinESS of EducATion
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Your academic or research organization must walk a tightrope every day – maintaining a perfect balance between academic excellence and business efficiency. To help you keep your equilibrium, SAP provides a comprehensive portfolio of solutions tailored to the unique needs of public and private universities, research agencies, and medical colleges.
SAP for Higher Education & Research solutions support a full range of organizational processes including student lifecycle management, research management, grants management, financials, operations, human resources, procurement, analytics, and reporting. The goal: to help you enhance student services, improve operational performance, and sustain the innovation that makes your institution unique.
Supporting industry best practices developed through serving more than 500 colleges and universities worldwide, SAP for Higher Education & Research solutions help your organization build a solid foundation for academic and operational excellence.
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SAP for HE&R solutions support efficiency by enabling standardization and the use of best business practices across your organization, allowing you to build a solid business foundation that supports your institutional mission. At the same time, the solutions also enable you to invest in innovation, enhancing the core teaching and research activities that distinguish your institution from competitive organizations.
universities, colleges, and research institutions face daunting challenges in today’s tough environment. Public funding has declined sharply while government regulation has increased. meanwhile, competition – for grants, donors, students, faculty, and research professionals – has intensified.
To meet these challenges, your organization must maintain its focus on academic excellence while also becoming more agile and efficient. What’s needed is an iT infrastructure that helps you execute your organizational strategy, enhance core processes, minimize risks, and reduce costs. However, many colleges and universities rely on fragmented, nonintegrated business systems. inefficient, expensive, and hard to integrate, these systems seldom deliver the degree of control, visibility, and flexibility needed to provide new services, support innovation, or streamline processes.
The SAP for Higher Education & Research (SAP for HE&R) solution portfolio includes highly scalable solutions specifically designed to meet the needs of public and private universities, multicampus institutions, research agencies, and medical colleges. The software supports a wide range of key processes, including student lifecycle management, research and grants management, institutional development, human capital management, financials, procurement, operations, analytics, and asset management.
The solutions are powered by the SAP netWeaver® technology platform, which allows you to integrate both SAP® and nonSAP applications, as well as create new applications on top of existing infrastructure. Supporting industry best practices developed through serving more than 500 colleges and universities worldwide, SAP for HE&R solutions help your organization build a solid foundation for academic and operational excellence.
leArning, leAding, And lowering coStSgAining An AdvAncEd dEgREE in EfficiEncY And ExcEllEncE
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universities and research centers must do two almost contradictory things. first, they must adopt best business practices and collaborate with other institutions. Second, they must innovate and differentiate themselves to attract the best students, professors, and researchers. These goals often clash; an approach based on standardized, widely followed practices is good for efficiency but may not support competitiveness and innovation.
SAP for Higher Education & Research solutions help you balance both sides of this equation. The software supports efficiency by enabling standardization and the use of best business practices across your organization, allowing you to build a solid business foundation that supports your institutional mission. At the same time, the solutions also enable you to invest in innovation, enhancing the core teaching and research activities that distinguish your institution from competitive organizations.
SAP for HE&R solutions help you achieve the following goals.
Increase Efficiency and Reduce Costs
SAP software allows you to connect and streamline processes that support students, faculty, administrators, and alumni. integrated workflows result in enhanced productivity across the campus and research community. The solutions help you lower costs by enabling integrated business processes, boosting purchasing efficiency, and avoiding duplication of backoffice shared services. for example, the SAP Student lifecycle management application uses powerful customer relationship management tools to help you manage a full range of studentoriented activities. it integrates with the SAP ERP financials and SAP ERP Human capital management solutions without interfaces or duplication of data structures. This connectivity saves time and money during the implementation phase as well as in ongoing maintenance. nonintegrated solutions, by contrast, typically deliver inconsistent information while also requiring increased funding and staffing.
Your employees work more efficiently when information – such as academic records, funds data, personnel management, and financial and student accounting – is easily accessible and all in one place. in addition, key performance indicators, reports, analytics, balanced scorecards, and performancebased budgeting support fast, informed decision making. for example, employees can accurately determine the real cost of a research project or academic program. And senior administrators can precisely track and manage resources such as materials, personnel, and physical assets.
Leverage Innovation to Build a Competitive Advantage
All educational and research institutions strive to achieve excellence – whether their mission is to provide vocational training, award advanced degrees, or conduct theoretical research. The pursuit of excellence is enhanced by the implementation of business systems that are integrated and interoperable and the adoption of
Building A Better inStitutionSofTWARE THAT HElPS You focuS on YouR coRE miSSion
SAP Student lifecycle management integrates with the SAP ERP financials and SAP ERP Human capital management solutions without interfaces or duplication of data structures. This connectivity saves time and money during the implementation phase as well as in ongoing maintenance.
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standard business processes in areas such as human resources, finance, research, and student information management. As your operational processes become more efficient and more costeffective, resources can be redirected toward the focus areas that contribute to differentiation and innovation: teaching and learning, research, and institutional fundraising. SAP offers targeted applications that support these three core areas. And because the software is both flexible and adaptable, you can customize, combine, or augment applications – both SAP and nonSAP – to support innovations based on your unique ideas, insights, or objectives.
Promote a Customer-Focused Mind-Set
virtually all colleges and universities seek to improve the efficiency of communications with important stakeholders. in today’s competitive academic environment, your organization must differentiate itself by providing information that is personalized, timely, and accessible. The SAP customer Relationship management application allows you to provide 24x7 access to your stakeholders, conduct targeted student recruitment campaigns, and support alumni and donor call centers. Because SAP solutions incorporate a broad range of interaction technologies – including Web browser, voice, and mobile devices – users gain ready access to internal and external business content, applications, and services.
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tHe BuSineSS of HigHer educAtion And reSeArcHTHE ABc’S of oPERATionAl ExcEllEncE
SAP for HE&R solutions help you gain financial control, improve operational efficiency, enhance strategic decision making, and reduce costs. The solutions support a broad range of business activities (see figure 1).
Enterprise Resource Management
Financial management solutions address critical functions such as financial accounting and reporting, financial supply chain management, working capital management, treasury and risk management, and – through integration with governance, risk, and compliance software – regulatory compliance. You can dramatically increase the efficiency of your finance department by streamlin
ing and automating laborintensive transaction possessing and reporting functions. freed from routine activities, your finance professionals can deliver greater value to the organization via operational insight and strategic action. The software also enables you to optimize your financial operations by streamlining and automating accounting processes while helping to ensure regulatory compliance. With improved insight into your organization’s financial performance, you can take swift action to reduce costs and improve efficiency.
Governance and compliance software allows you to collect, document, assess, remediate, and attest to internal control processes and safeguards,
helping to enhance the transparency of your business activity. You can also configure controls to define rules and tolerances while customizing internal processes related to security, reporting, and error prevention. The solutions document all internal control processes, making them visible to executives, auditors, and regulators.
Human capital management solutions comprise a complete, integrated set of tools that help your organization manage your most important asset. Automation of core human resource processes such as employee administration, payroll, and legal reporting can result in a substantial increase in efficiency and productivity. for example,
Figure 1: SAP® Solution Strategy for Higher Education and Research
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• insight and analytics• Enterprise information management• Business user productivity• Testing and quality management• iT operational and service excellence
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you can create project teams based on skills and availability, monitor their progress on specific projects, track the time they spend, and analyze the results. convenient selfservices built into SAP for HE&R solutions allow your faculty, staff, and researchers to take charge of their development and proactively manage their careers. And with embedded analytics and realtime insight into your workforce, you can maximize human-capital strategies and programs and measure their contributions to the organization. Equally important, talent management functionality gives your administrators improved insight into your organizational talent while helping you attract, educate, align, and retain the talent you need to maintain a competitive edge.
Procurement solutions reduce costs through strategic sourcing, supplier and contract management, and expenditure analysis. They also support plandriven and ad hoc purchasing, accurate spend analysis, and compliance with procurement best practices. You can enhance supplier relationships throughout the procurement value chain – including supplier qualification and selection, bid invitations, vendor evaluations, and contract negotiations.
Enterprise asset management software allows you to reduce maintenance costs, improve management of capital expenditures, and increase utilization of property, equipment, plants, and facilities. in addition, you can manage the asset lifecycle all the way from business planning and procurement to deployment, maintenance, disposal, and replacement.
Business services solutions enable you to take control of costintensive activities such as real estate management, enterprise asset management, project and portfolio management, travel management, and environment, health, and safety compliance management. The software streamlines these activities while maximizing their transparency, enabling you to significantly increase the efficiency and effectiveness of your university or research operation. As a result, you can reduce financial and environmental risks while making sure institutional policies are applied uniformly to all processes. unlike point solutions that support only individual activities, such as travel or quality management, SAP for HE&R solutions are tightly integrated with business applications that support processes across the entire organization.
Teaching and Learning
Student lifecycle management software from SAP supports a wide range of studentoriented activities, including recruiting, admissions, enrollment, registration, academic advising, course management, student accounting, degree auditing, and academic program management (see figure 2). You can enhance the student experience by providing an integrated, Webbased solution that enables users to apply for admission, enroll for classes, register, make payments, check grades, monitor progress, simulate degree auditing, and get important information and documents online – without standing in long lines or calling multiple offices. unlike competitive point solutions, SAP Student lifecycle management software is integrated with other SAP for HE&R solutions. The application leverages the functionality of SAP customer Relationship management, which helps leading companies around the world create unique customer experiences.
As your operational processes become more efficient and more costeffective, resources can be redirected toward the focus areas that contribute to differentiation and innovation: teaching and learning, research, and institutional fundraising. SAP offers targeted applications that support these three core areas.
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Figure 2: SAP® Student Lifecycle Management
Research
Grants and project management solutions help you win and manage a wide variety of department and sponsored grant programs, endowments, and research awards. You gain control and visibility across the proposal lifecycle – including development and submission, collaboration, budgeting, award, resources and expenditures, reporting, renewal, closeout, evaluation, and analysis. Your principal investigators, fund accountants, and research administrators gain timely and accurate information on financial activities and transactions, helping ensure that sponsored programs are conducted according to sponsor requirements.
Business analytics software gives you full visibility into your research activities, enabling you to benchmark and measure your research management efficiency against your goals and key performance indicators.
Institutional Development
Relationship management solutions help you improve communications and maintain ties with students, donors, and alumni. Your decision makers can plan and manage the entire enrollment process while effectively promoting continuing education opportunities. The software enables your fundraisers to identify prospective donors, execute fundraising campaigns, and track prog
ress toward financial goals. users can also collect, manage, and analyze data from multiple sources via multiple points of access such as telephone, Web, and wireless devices.
Analytics
Performance management software enables you to integrate, analyze, and disseminate businesscritical information from SAP and nonSAP systems. Applications from the SAP Businessobjects™ portfolio help you track, understand, and manage performance across operational areas, including student admissions, student affairs, human resources, finance, and operations. Your administrators can
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fulfill reporting requirements with minimal manual intervention, while also creating and publishing customized, interactive reports that support informed decision making at every level.
Mobility
Mobile computing solutions from SAP enable you to unwire your campus or research center by delivering business data and applications anytime, anywhere, on any mobile device. With comprehensive mobile applications, platforms, and services, you can support a full range of operational and academic activities – from facilities management or asset management to student recruiting and student services.
Sustainability
SAP solutions for sustainability help you build a greener campus by measuring and helping to reduce your carbon emissions and other environmental impacts. With pressure from donors, regulators, and students, many colleges and universities seek to monitor energy use, optimize assets and materials, and lower their carbon impact. SAP solutions can help you evaluate
energy usage, forecast energy costs, model the impact of abatement strategies, and source a more attractive energy supply mix.
academic centers, some are government agencies, and some are commercial operations.
Whatever your institution’s mission or level of activity, SAP for Higher Education & Research solutions enhance the complete research lifecycle – from grant proposal development to project planning and execution. Supported activities include grants management, environmental health and safety management, and intellectual property management. The solutions integrate with the SAP ERP application, providing a comprehensive research management solution that meets a wide variety of institutional needs.
SAP® Software Powers Lead-ing Research Organizations
in addition to providing an outstanding learning and teaching environment, many institutions maintain a strong focus on research, especially in scientific and medical fields. These institutions rely on SAP® software to help them compete more effectively for research funding, to manage compliance in this highly regulated area, and to streamline administration processes.
SAP software also benefits organizations that focus solely on research. Some are attached to
Because SAP solutions incorporate a broad range of interaction technologies – including Web browser, voice, and mobile devices – users gain ready access to internal and external business content, applications, and services.
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Building A firm foundAtionmodERnizE YouR iT lAndScAPE, loWER YouR Tco
many higher education and research organizations spend the bulk of their iT budgets on maintaining existing infrastructure and integrating heterogeneous systems, leaving limited resources to support innovation. Tying disparate systems together with single, point topoint interfaces is not only costly, but it also results in a rigid iT landscape that resists extension to a broader set of participants, such as students, staff, suppliers, and partners.
SAP for Higher Education & Research solutions are built on the SAP netWeaver technology platform, allowing you to integrate information and applications from virtually any source while reducing complexity and cost. SAP netWeaver helps you extract more value, business insight, and Roi from existing systems, preserving your investment in missioncritical applications, preventing vendor lockin, and lowering overall total cost of ownership. in addition, using a single, comprehensive technology platform makes your iT landscape more reliable, scalable, and adaptable to
changing business requirements. it also helps you save on maintenance and iT training while reducing the need for multiple interfaces.
SAP invests heavily in research and development activities. This investment frees your iT personnel from extensive programming and allows them to focus on developing services, infrastructure, and strategic support. SAP netWeaver builds on the power of enterprise Web services to support a serviceoriented architecture (SoA) that provides flexibility and business efficiency without increasing costs. SoA enables you to develop programs and applications such as Web services or composite applications to support key business processes.
With the benefits of SAP netWeaver, SAP for HE&R solutions help you enhance and modernize your iT infrastructure, building a strong link between software technology and business operations.
convenient selfservices built into SAP for HE&R solutions allow your faculty, staff, and researchers to take charge of their development and proactively manage their careers. And with embedded analytics and realtime insight into your workforce, you can maximize humancapital strategies and programs and measure their contributions to the organization.
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Business Function Benefit
Student lifecycle management • Build “customer” relationship with students• improve student retention• Reduce number of student information systems• improve reporting of key student data
fundraising • Streamline campaign planning and management• increase fundraising revenue• lower cost of fundraising• Boost transparency of financial operations
Research • Streamline development of research proposals • improve execution of research projects • create a collaborative environment for research initiatives
financial resource management • improve enterprise financial management• use reliable financial data to create a “single version of the truth” • Enable realtime availability of reports• Sharpen focus on teaching and research by controlling costs
Human resource management • Enhance recruitment of qualified staff• improve retention of people and knowledge• comply with everchanging global and local HR regulations
Analytics, risk management, and compliance • increase transparency and auditability of processes and activities• Reduce reporting effort• improve quality and accuracy of reported data• comply with accounting and other regulatory requirements
Only from SAP: Proven Solutions, Targeted Expertise
for more information on how SAP for Higher Education & Research solutions can help you improve business efficiency and enhance academic excellence, call your SAP representative or visit us at www.sap.com/industries/highered.
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