Higher Education

Our Agresso solutions have a proven track record in Higher Education, with an expanding customer base of over 200 Education establishments across the UK and Eire.

Our experience and knowledge of the sector has enabled us to craft a solution which will support the changing long-term requirements of our customers.

The 2006 acquisition of Distinction Systems and integration into our Agresso range further strengthened our position as the leading supplier of business systems to the Education Sector, and has enabled UNIT4 to offer a complete software suite for today’s forward-thinking Higher Education Institutions, including:

  • Finance
  • Student Records
  • HR and Payroll
  • CRM
  • Award Management
  • Academic Database

Our customers in the Higher Education sector include:

  • Anglia Ruskin University
  • University of Chichester
  • Aston University
  • UCA
  • University College Birmingham
  • University of Worcester
  • British School of Osteopathy
  • University of Bath
  • Buckingham Chilterns University College
  • University of Bedfordshire

 

“We selected Agresso as we consider it provides an excellent integrated system, which will meet both our operational requirements and the growing management information requirements over the next decade.”

Camille Stallard
Head of Finance & Planning, University of Gloucestershire

 

Agresso Business World 5.5, the latest release of the suite, takes this market-leading product to a new level of functionality and ease of use.

Evidence across the sector shows that Agresso’s shelf-life is exponentially longer than competitive solutions, whose lack of post-implementation agility leads to huge budget overruns and increased ongoing costs.

When new demands are placed on your organisation, Agresso Business World can be reconfigured to reflect those changes – often by your internal teams, without the need for a single day’s consultancy. Agresso has the only architecture on the market that tightly couples data, business process, and the delivery methodology (reporting and analytics). Put simply, this means that when a change is made in one area, it does not have to be redone and rechecked for accuracy in another. That’s a huge time, money and people resource saver. That’s what true business agility is - what we at UNIT4 call post-implementation agility.

This post-implementation agility makes Agresso Business World truly future-proof, with a lower total cost of ownership than many of its rivals. Agresso Business World’s long shelf-life means you’ll no longer face the pain and heartache of having to re-implement or replace your ERP system every five years. Instead, you’ll gain substantial savings, and an unmatched resilience to change.

Video Case Study - Bangor University, Canterbury Christchurch University and Dartington College of Art - HR Payroll

All three universities discuss the implementation and use of HR and Payroll.

Watch the "HR and Payroll" case study.

Video Case Study - University of Surrey and University of Bath – "Business Agility and Future-Proofing"

The University of Surrey is a medium-sized University based in Guildford, in the South East of England, and is focused on research.

Established in 1966, the University of Bath has around 11,000 part-time and full-time students and 2,500 staff.

Watch "Business Agility and Future-Proofing" case study.

Video Case Study - Dartington College of Arts – "The Benefits of Agresso"

Dartington College of Arts is one of the smallest, specialist Higher Education Institutions in the UK.

Here, Mark Taylor, Vice Principal (Finance & Resources) of Dartington College of Arts, discusses the benefits the college has seen since implementing the Agresso Business World system.

Watch "The Benefits of Agresso" case study.

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