Higher Education Software Solutions

Agresso Education is a higher education software solution that manages all aspects of the processes used by administrators, faculty and management to handle day-to-day operations at institutions of higher learning. With modern, sophisticated reporting tools for users at all levels, Agresso Education not only supports internal staff by improving business processes and procedures at the school, but also enhances the students' experience.

“Today we can access data that we never had before. College deans and project coordinators can view detailed information about each individual program — information such as revenue and expenses, travel costs, and profitability — instantaneously. It’s right there at their fingertips. And they can use that information to make sound business decisions. It saves time, money, and makes us all much more efficient than ever before.”
Carlos Arenas, Finance Manager, Bow Valley College

Education Management System to Help You Work Smarter

Agresso Education helps higher education organizations better manage information and automates routine and repetitive tasks so staff can focus on value-added activities:

  • Provide superior service to your students, from recruiting through graduation and beyond;
  • Manage your institution's finances and operations with core enterprise resource planning (ERP) features that provide reliable, accurate, and timely information;
  • Effectively support your employees from hire-to-retire;
  • Easily respond to changing circumstances such as budget revisions, incoming student counts, purchasing, etc.

The Scope of Agresso's Integrated Education Software Solution

Agresso's integrated student education information management system satisfies the unique requirements of higher educational institutions including core financials, human resources/payroll, purchasing, admissions, and student records, as shown in the table below. Data is automatically shared across the entire system, providing unprecedented flexibility, more useful, timely information, and superior insight into all school functions.

Student Components
*Download Brochures To Right		 Core Finance / Operational Components
Recruiting & Admissions Financial Management
Registration & Academic Records Procurement Management
Program Completion & Degree Audit Human Resources/Payroll
Student Accounts & Billing Project Costing and Billing
Web Services Reporting and Analytics
  Business Process Automation
  Planning Budgeting and Forecasting

In certain functional areas, Agresso Education can easily interface with specialized third party best-of-breed solutions. For example:

The Agresso Assessment Engine – Degree Audit and Much More

System-Wide Monitoring

The key to the Assessment Engine is that you can create your own processes and define your own stages and monitoring points based on any data in the system.

Like most systems, Agresso Education offers degree audit capabilities but takes the concept a giant step further. The Assessment Engine monitors satisfactory academic performance and keeps students on track to complete their programs. But it can do much more. Virtually any process (e.g. recruitment) can be created and tracked by the Assessment Engine, which automatically moves the process through defined stages and provides alerts where necessary. Below are some examples of how the Assessment Engine can be put to work in Recruitment and Student Billing:

Recruitment process:

  • Develop a program to systematically attract new students;
  • Identify prospects and move them through a communications program;
  • Rank the prospects and identify key prospects;
  • Monitor successful campaigns.

Student billing process

  • Track payment of fees and move student from "applied" to "enrolled";
  • Alert students of billing status;
  • Initiate transcript holds and registration restrictions;
  • Alert financial aid coordinators.

The Ability to Respond to Change

Agresso Education is unique to the higher education market:  it has been designed specifically to address environments that experience ongoing change. We call this capability post-implementation agility.  Institutions of higher learning need to be able to respond to change without involving costly external consultants and constrained IT resources.

As the baby boom demographic shift draws to its end, institutions are challenged to come up with new ways to reach revenue and enrollment targets. Public institutions are forced to deal with ever diminishing budgets, yet have the mandate to provide education within their geographical areas. Agresso Education can help:

  • Different approaches to recruiting new students in a declining market;
  • Ever-changing reporting needs for regulatory authorities;
  • Regular changes in executive management;
  • Changing reporting hierarchies and requirements;
  • Acquisition or sale of new property/buildings;
  • Responding to the trend toward merging of institutions.

Why Switch From My Legacy System?

A common theme among our customers is frustration with legacy education information management system systems built on out-of-date technology. They are difficult for staff to use, require significant manual intervention, and are difficult to change. In many cases maintenance agreements become overly burdensome and applications are no longer supported.

Agresso Education is built on a modern, web-aware, non-proprietary platform with the back-end infrastructure to inter-operate easily with other systems.

UNIT4 Business Software's Experience

Although perceived as a relatively new entrant to the higher education market in North America, UNIT4 Business Software has a long and solid history with over 200 institutions around the world. Our commitment to the higher education sector is marked by our significant, ongoing investment in the Agresso Education solution and our increasing customer successes in both the United States and Canada.