Contracts & Collaborations


Unit4 to help London School of Business and Management deliver inclusive education and a superb student experience


Unit4 to help London School of Business and Management deliver inclusive education and a superb student experience Unit4, a world leader in enterprise systems for Higher Education, today announced the London School of Business and Management is to implement Unit4 Student Management to help deliver its strategy for inclusive education and a superb student experience. The school’s stated aim is to be an accessible,


transformational and innovative provider of high-quality UK higher education courses in Accounting, Business and Law as measured by its students, staff, academic partners and external stakeholders. Its diverse population of 1400 students, from a range of backgrounds, ages, abilities and ethnicities, will benefit from Unit4’s next generation technology for managing the administration of campus life. Staff will have the information they need across the student journey to make evidence- based decisions that progress both the strategy and student experience. “We want to provide equal and fair access to higher education


for anyone who can demonstrate the ability to succeed, no matter what their background,” said John Fairhurst, Managing Director and Academic Principal at the London School of Business and Management. “To support this, we are seeking ‘Taught Degree Awarding Powers’ so that we can develop, design, deliver and award our own degrees that take into account the diverse characteristics of our students. Unit4 Student Management will provide a single technology platform which supports all aspects of this aim. Notably it will also significantly reduce administration so that our highly skilled staff can focus on delivering a high quality educational experience to students.”


Unit4 Student Management’s comprehensive and sophisticated reporting capability will provide the school with the ability to make evidence-based operational and strategic decisions. From application to graduation, Unit4 Student Management


will provide data on the student journey. It will be easier for the school to identify trends, such as why individual or groups of students might be at risk of withdrawing or not reaching their full potential. “The London School of Business and Management is levelling


the field and providing opportunity for quality education to everyone,” said Matt Searles, Industry Director for Education at Unit4. “Student Management allows them to leverage technology as a differentiator, which isn’t just about the technology, but how it’s used and how it supports people.” The school was also impressed by the partnership approach adopted by the Unit4 team throughout the selection process, a product of the vendor’s commitment to Higher Education and experience as the UK’s leading provider of ERP to the sector.


Unit4 releases People Platform Extension Kit; Ability to extend powerful enterprise ERP with custom apps in any industry standard marketplace


Unit4, a world leader in enterprise software for service organisations, announces today the release of new cloud services designed for customers and partners to easily extend its enterprise solutions with custom industry specific apps. The People Platform Extension Kit is designed to meet the


specific challenges of service-based business models. As organisations modernise their business models to engage people in new ways, Unit4 is providing customers and partners with the freedom to develop differentiating front-end applications, that benefit from the critical data held in their back-office systems. The People Platform is the foundation for creating intelligent enterprise applications, providing services enabling Unit4 applications to become self-driving by offering access to machine learning capabilities, based on data collection and mining. The Extension Kit gives partners and customers access to the full breadth of Unit4 technology. They can construct custom tailored extensions or complete applications, benefiting from the powerful capabilities of the People Platform and intelligence in Unit4 Business World, becoming first-class citizens of the Unit4


application eco-system. Due to the loosely coupled, micro- service based architecture, partners and customers can develop using their preferred tooling and offer their solutions through any industry-standard marketplace. “The everything as a service economy is driving business


model changes around the world,” said Stephan Sieber, CEO of Unit4. “As customer demand for simple online subscription services and rapid value grows, organisations are modernising business models to create greater efficiencies and to engage customers, employees, and business partners in new ways. Core enterprise systems are vital, but do not deliver competitive differentiation on their own. Our customers have unique strategic processes, and by opening our solution platform for simple application development irrespective of programming language or industry marketplace, they can build very specific apps that deliver rapid value and seamless user experience. Essentially this is the next generation of customisation technology enabling organisations to have exactly what they want and need to be successful.”


www.isopps.com 09


Page 1  |  Page 2  |  Page 3  |  Page 4  |  Page 5  |  Page 6  |  Page 7  |  Page 8  |  Page 9  |  Page 10  |  Page 11  |  Page 12  |  Page 13  |  Page 14  |  Page 15  |  Page 16  |  Page 17  |  Page 18  |  Page 19