University of London Computer Centre and UNIT4 join forces to deliver shared services to educational institutions

Further and Higher Education Institutions to benefit from Agresso Campus Platform as a Shared Service.

UNIT4 and the University of London Computer Centre (ULCC), the University of London’s provider of shared IT services, today announced they have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to deliver shared services based on the Agresso Campus Platform to educational institutions across the UK. This is the first such agreement between an educational establishment and a vendor to jointly provide enterprise software as a shared service.

ULCC will provide hosting and support services to institutions, that will benefit from reduced IT infrastructure costs while capitalising on the economies of scale that come from sharing.  With ULCC being a point-of-presence for JANET(UK), the UK’s Higher Education’s network, customers can also rest assured that the service will be fast and reliable.

“Integrated back-office solutions will become indispensable as institutions look to address sector challenges,” said Richard Maccabee, Director of ICT at the University of London. “We chose the Agresso Campus Platform because it provides sector specific solutions across the board for both Further and Higher Education. What’s more, Agresso’s architecture is unique and allows us to easily adapt the solution to meet the individual requirements of customers. This improves our competitive advantage and will keep our development costs low. In fact we have already implemented or agreed service contracts with four institutions in just 12 months.”

The Agresso Campus Platform offers educational institutions a portfolio of tightly integrated solutions covering all functional areas including financial management, student management, research award management, CRM, curriculum management and reporting and analytics. These best-of-class technologies provide agile, interoperable solutions to help Institutions adapt to increasing complexity, business change and funding challenges including the impacts of growing student numbers, new revenue streams and organisational and regulatory changes.

“Shared services delivers huge shared efficiencies allowing institutions to focus their resources on what they do best, education and research,” said Anwen Robinson, Managing Director of UNIT4 Business Software Ltd. “ULCC is an example of best practice in a sector that is desperate to cut costs and modernise. They are also a trusted advisor to the sector and the faith they have demonstrated in UNIT4 sends a clear message to the market.”

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Find out more

To find out more about Agresso Campus Platform as a Shared Service sign-up at: http://eepurl.com/iOW0L 

For more information please contact:

Frank Steiner

Marketing Manager

Tel:        020 7863 1322

Email:    f.steiner[at]ulcc.ac.uk