Enterprise systems and software for Higher Education administration
Unit4 enables HE institutions to respond quickly to change and retain top talent plus improve operational effectiveness, revenue streams and spend management. We free your people to focus on delivering an exceptional student experience, in today's highly competitive market.
Trusted by higher education institutions worldwide
"End users... are rapidly becoming more confident in their budgeting skills and understand the numbers more deeply, making them more self-sufficient and able to turn that insight into action."
Ninja Ýr Gísladóttir
Director of Finance, Reykjavik University
Better manage operations, processes and spend
Right for Higher Education, right for your organization
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Our next-gen cloud solutions are designed to help institutions like yours to deliver resilient and progressive higher education – transforming operations and empowering your people to face the future with confidence.
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Watch our demo video to see how higher education institutions can be more agile and future ready.
- Adopt an integrated financial planning approach.
- Clearly define organizational goals.
- Break down goals into measurable activities.
- Scenario plan, before making well-informed decisions.
- Build a workforce strategy, which addresses the skills you need now and in the future.
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Watch our demo video to see how higher education institutions can deliver more streamlined, “joined-up” operations.
- Address out-of-date legacy systems.
- Break down silos and benefit from one common set of data.
- Simplify and secure operations, with a flexible SaaS platform.
- Connect 3rd party applications and design your own interfaces.
- Integrate your operations within a eco-system designed to evolve as your needs change.
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Watch our demo video to see how higher education institutions can empower their finance teams and decision-makers with smarter budgeting tools.
- Effectively manage your budget with a single source of truth.
- View budget dashboards with grants, capital and people.
- Find workspaces designed for finance users, with flags if you are nearing a budget threshold.
- Respond faster to changing priorities by making proactive adjustments based on facts.
- Provide full transparency of costs and dependencies, with a streamlined approval process.
- View your people costs and benchmark salaries, where you have skills shortages, to support your workforce planning.
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Watch our demo video to see how higher education institutions can transform their source-to-payment (S2P) processes.
- Assess, monitor and analyze your supply chain to protect revenue and meet regulatory requirements.
- Create contracts with ease using ready-made templates or customize to meet your needs.
- Automate your procure to pay solution, with integrations to your product catalogue or external marketplaces.
- Manage your suppliers, with analytics and insights into contract utilization that will enable you to improve your strategic sourcing.
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Watch our demo video to see how higher education institutions can gain the resilience and agility to plan, respond and thrive in ever-changing times.
- Visualize your historic employee costs and simulate organizational change.
- Understand the associated impacts and include commentary to support sign-off.
- Implement your new organizational structure with ease.
- Get new team members up and running quickly.
- Prepare your organization for perpetual change.
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Watch our demo video to see how higher education institutions can engage with their talented people and keep them achieving their best.
- Plan for your workforce of the future.
- Accommodate flexible working arrangements.
- Empower people with Employee Self Service for ‘how do I?’ queries.
- Develop your employees, with on-line learning.
- Set objectives that align to your organizational strategy and regularly review performance.
- Listen to your people, often working remotely, with pulse surveys and action feedback.
- Maintain a central, single source of truth for every employee.
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Customer success stories
Unit4 helps HE institutions to focus on delivering on their mission.
Customer interview: Dublin City University
Helping this fast-growing university move away from spreadsheets with a modern tool for reporting, planning and forecasting.
Customer Story: Birmingham Metropolitan College
This further and higher education college has chosen Unit4 for smart, connected finance to improve education outcomes.
Customer Story: Cranfield University
Helping this postgraduate specialist make annual savings of £90K by removing the need for costly external IT consulting.
Customer Story: Kingston University
A unified ERP solution from Unit4 frees administrative staff and faculty to achieve the best in education and research.
Customer Story: Logan University
This leading healthcare university has gained a 20% increase in productivity, thanks to Unit4 ERP on Microsoft Azure Cloud.
Customer Story: University of Salford
Cloud Unit4 ERP is helping this global industry-focused research and teaching university transform finance and technology access.
Customer Story: Reykjavik University
Providing a robust financial infrastructure to improve data quality, empower end users and drive global growth.