Higher Education
In this rapidly developing competitive world, it is becoming much harder to optimize business operations and attract new customers. Many industries are turning to companies providing outsourcing services to rationalize their business processes and centralize their skills on core activities. Along with other industries, the current developments affect higher education sector as well urging it to outsource some of its operations to private companies.
Education is a globally vital sector helping to shape individuals and drive socioeconomic advancements. Economic and human capital development is strongly dependent on high-quality education; hence, the constant development of the sector is essential.
Higher education refers to education beyond high school, including bachelors, masters and doctorate degrees that grant students with various certificates or degrees. The higher education sector is fairly wide and operates in a multifaceted private and public markets.
The sector did not pass up the recent digitalization and introduced e-learning; provision of education through technological means. Various educational software organizations keep emerging in the market offering unique solutions to institutions providing higher education.
At Acquerant we will delightfully join the journey leading to the optimization of processes in your educational institution with the help of various specialized software. You can outsource activities ranging from database management to procurement and marketing and our expertise in the field will enable you to easily and effectively implement cutting-edge systems that will help to save time and money and concentrate on your core activities.
ACQUERANT SERVICE CAPABILITIES
Acquerant suggests BPO services explicitly tailored for educational institutions. The solutions touch upon different aspects of educational processes, helping students, faculty, and staff to interact and collaborate easily. The service is promising for effectively coordinating entire university processes and optimizing daily operations.
Here are the aspects of higher education institutions that our professionals can help you to process:
Students’ Success
Modern solutions make students more involved in the entire academic lifecycle. They also help the educational bodies to engage more prospects and increase admissions rate. Simplified transactions provide greater personalized experience to students throughout their academic life and help to establish everlasting relationship with alumni.
1. Student lifecycle management – automating activities in order to instantly obtain student-related academic and non-academic data and meet their requests.
2. Student engagement – providing students great experience through effectively aligning the needs of students with the educational institution.
3. Analytics of students and learning – keeping track of students’ progress to reveal any gaps and provide an immediate response.
4. Institutional performance – in order to optimize resources, it is essential to continually monitor financial and academic data with the help of integrated software.
Academic and Commercial Research
The solutions offered by Acquerant enable to manage internal and external funding opportunities easily supporting the analysis of structured and unstructured clinical data and cover the following areas:
1. Research planning and execution
2. Research analytics
3. Medical research insights
Education and Research Revenue
With the use of specialized software, our team will not only help to coordinate activities implemented by research grantors and grantees, but also enable to calculate and charge fees from students in a highly accurate manner. The solutions cover:
1. Grants management
2. Student fee management
Human Resources
We offers a wide range of HR-related solutions to institutions of higher education. Our solutions help to easily plan and remunerate employees according to internal policies. We help to simplify key HR activities and recruitment processes to gain great efficiency. Through unique solutions, institutions are given an opportunity to automate employee attendance management and time-off requests, hence gain higher accuracy and time efficiency.
1. Position budgeting and control
2. Core human resources and payroll
3. Talent management
4. Time and attendance management
5. Human capital analytics
Budget and Finance
Through integrated services, Acquerant helps to monitor costs and financial performance of the institution, as well as manage resource allocation. The usage of such cohesive software enables to respond to alterations in the financial market promptly. Liquidity, cash, and risk management combined with integrated financial reporting become much easier with us. Additionally, the protection of data, enterprise applications and control of access to data comprises one of the solutions offered by us.
1. Public sector budget planning
2. Public sector financials
3. Finance operations
4. Treasury and financial risk mitigation
5. Enterprise, risk, and compliance
6. Cybersecurity and data protection
Procurement
Our team will coordinate the entire procurement process, keep track of key activities and strengthen supplier relations. The solutions regarding procurement are:
1. Operational procurement and supplier management
2. Inventory and basic warehouse management
3. External workforce management
4. Services procurement
5. Procure to pay, invoices and payables management
6. Procurement analytics
7. Supplier collaboration
Capital Investment Projects
We will manage the overall financial performance of institutions and execute relevant strategies. They help to keep a high level of transparency throughout the implementation of investments to effectively manage risks associated with it. Communication through advanced software help to track and immediately respond to any changes. Acquerant helps higher education institutions to make better investment decisions and increase revenues with practical real estate management tools.
1. Financial planning and analysis
2. Capital portfolio and project management
3. Project execution and change management
4. Real estate management and asset operations
Analytics
The making of decisions in a timely and smart manner becomes possible once the employees have access to business intelligence and key knowledge. Institutions can be managed in an effective and functional way with the help of Acquerant. We help to gain better insights into students and foster effortless collaboration between faculty and staff. Automated predictive analytics helps to efficiently allocate resources and make informed decisions.
1. Business intelligence
2. Enterprise performance management
3. Predictive analytics
Application Platform and Infrastructure
In-memory application platform allows to swiftly run existing applications and easily developed new ones, as well as store and process existing data. Through specialized software, Acquerant helps to make content easily accessible for prospects, partners, and employees. The solutions help to assure that institution’s operations comply with changing industry needs. Keeping students, employees and partners connected through integrated software and applications is a great solution for engagement.
1. Application platform
2. Interface management
3. Process management and integration
4. Content and collaboration
Database and Data Management
One of the BPO services offered by Acquerant is database and data management. The latter enables to improve decision-making through optimal data storage and analysis. Acquerant helps to boost operations by minimizing data movement and disruption risks. The availability and timely delivery of critical information help to effectively run institution’s operations.
1. Database management system
2. Data warehousing
3. Enterprise information management
4. Big data
Security Software
It is essential to protect the internal data of companies and minimize any risks. We provide tools for data protection and offer strengthening of application and IT infrastructure security to prevent cyber threats.
1. Identity and access management
2. Application and IT infrastructure security
IoT Business and Technology Services
Acquerant offers installation of rapid application framework linking “things” with business context services. Our solutions support the entire lifecycle of IoT and provide great efficiency. They enable to manage and link device data to feed business systems with IoT edge devices and gateways.
1. IoT business services
2. IoT technology services
3. IoT edge