Identifying Key Capabilities of SAP Solutions for the Education and Research Industry

SAP solutions include capabilities and functions to run the primary and support activities of education and research institutions integrated on one platform. The various capabilities are assembled to an industry-specific solution addressing the unique needs of education and research institutions, helping them optimize processes, enhance performance, and achieve strategic goals.

For higher education institutions, SAP provides solution capabilities that help optimize academic performance and student learning processes. Examples are digital human and learning helper tools and student lifecycle management. Research management can be improved through robust tools for managing grants and research projects, ensuring financial transparency and compliance. Solutions like Flexso for research management and SAP S/4HANA Cloud for project and resource management streamline research operations.

The following graphic shows the SAP Solution Capabilities within the education and research core value chain.

To learn more about the individual solution capabilities that SAP provides in the core value chain of the Education and Research industry, we recommend exploring SAP Solution Scout in more detail. It provides an interactive value chain allowing an easy navigation from the full picture to the individual SAP capabilities within each business process.

Play the video to learn how to use SAP Solution Scout for exploring the various SAP solution capabilities for the education and research industry.

SAP provides supporting functions and platform capabilities to integrate and accelerate applications using intelligent technologies. They can be extended on SAP Business Technology Platform.

Higher education and research institutions can implement purpose-driven operations and develop to self-running enterprise systems and self-organizing operational ecosystems. With that, they can concentrate more on their core missions of delivering high-quality education and driving groundbreaking research.

The following two graphics illustrate how SAP solutions enhance operational efficiency by integrating finance, HR, procurement, and grants management activities when starting with SAP in the education and research sector.

Integrated solution with a focus on the education sector:

Integrated solution with a focus on the research sector:

• SAP solutions for education and research provide a unified technology platform integrating both core and support functions tailored to the sector’s unique needs. SAP’s intelligent platform capabilities allow for integration, application acceleration, and development of self-operating systems. They help institutions streamline operations, enhance performance, and achieve strategic goals.

• For the education value chain, SAP solutions include, for example, functions for optimizing academic performance and student experiences, such as student lifecycle management, as well as functions for enterprise resource planning such as budget planning, talent management, or financial compliance.

• For the research value chain, SAP solutions include, for example, functions for pre-award budgeting, grants and project management, procurement, and financial compliance.
• SAP Solution Scout is an interactive tool recommended to explore SAP’s full suite of capabilities for education and research, including roadmap insights.