Public universities and systems
State appropriations, multi-campus reporting and shared services
Higher Education
Support Students, Research and Campus Operations on SAP
Oraya® helps universities and colleges replace aging administrative systems, account for restricted funds and research grants, and give staff time back for the mission, all on SAP’s industry-leading platform.
Expertise that puts more of the budget into the mission
Higher education institutions are being asked to do more with less certainty: enrollment shifts, flatter public funding, rising expectations from students and closer scrutiny of research spend. Meanwhile the administrative core is often decades old, heavily customized and understood by a shrinking number of people. Every hour spent reconciling spreadsheets is an hour not spent on teaching or research. SAP supplies the platform, and Oraya® makes it work for your institution.
Oraya® brings higher education experience, proven SAP delivery models and industry accelerators to universities, colleges and research institutes, helping them:
- Modernize finance without losing fund and endowment accounting.
- Administer research grants from proposal through closeout and audit.
- Simplify procurement and travel for faculty and departmental staff.
- Recruit and retain faculty and professional staff in a tight market.
- Give deans and department heads numbers they can act on.
- Consolidate shared services across campuses and institutes.
Outcomes we deliver
We help institutions run their administrative core efficiently so academic and research leaders can plan with confidence:
Modernize finance with fund, endowment and restricted accounting intact.
Manage research grants and sponsored programs end to end.
Simplify purchasing, expenses and travel for departments and faculty.
Support recruiting, onboarding and development across academic and professional staff.
Give deans and directors budget visibility without waiting for month end.
Run facilities, space and capital projects on the same platform as finance.
Meet audit, data protection and sponsor compliance requirements.
Who we serve
Funding models and governance differ widely across the sector. Oraya® adapts delivery to how each institution is financed and led:
Private colleges and universities
Endowment accounting, advancement support and tuition-driven planning
Community and technical colleges
Lean administrative teams, workforce programs and regional delivery
Research institutes and centers
Sponsored research, effort reporting and facilities and administrative recovery
Academic health centers
Clinical, academic and research operations under one financial structure
Why SAP for higher education?
SAP is built for organizations that must track money by source, restriction and purpose rather than by department alone. Its integrated platform helps institutions:
- Maintain fund, grant and endowment accounting in a single ledger.
- Connect finance, procurement, human resources (HR) and facilities on one digital core.
- Support sponsored research administration and compliant cost recovery.
- Give departments self-service access to their own budgets and commitments.
- Consolidate reporting across campuses, institutes and affiliated entities.
- Apply artificial intelligence (AI), analytics and automation to routine administrative work.
With SAP, institutions gain a digital foundation for financial stewardship, research growth and a better staff and student experience.
Solutions that support the campus
Oraya® matches SAP technologies to the administrative work behind teaching and research:
Finance and fund accounting
SAP S/4HANA Finance, Funds Management and SAP Analytics Cloud planning
Research and grants administration
SAP Grants Management for pre-award, post-award and sponsor reporting
Procurement, travel and expense
SAP Ariba, SAP Concur and SAP Business Network for departmental buying
Human resources and payroll
SAP SuccessFactors for recruiting, learning, development and payroll
Planning and analytics
SAP Analytics Cloud, SAP Datasphere and dashboards built on SAP BTP
Consulting and services for institutions
Oraya® supports institutions through selection, implementation and the academic years that follow:
SAP selection and solution design
Right-sized architecture aligned to governance and sponsor requirements
SAP implementation and industry accelerators
Fast deployment with preconfigured higher education processes
Integration with campus systems
Student information, learning, research and advancement system integration
Cloud migration
A move to SAP cloud with testing, documentation and security frameworks
Ongoing SAP AMS and optimization
Support through term start, fiscal year end and sponsor audit cycles
User adoption and change enablement
Training and adoption programs for distributed departmental users
Delivery Approach
A practical path to SAP for institutions
Universities are federations, not hierarchies. A program that ignores that gets stuck at the first faculty meeting.
- Governance that gives schools, institutes and central administration a real voice
- Phasing built around the academic and fiscal calendar, avoiding term start and year end
- Configuration before customization, so upgrades remain affordable for decades
- Departmental self-service designed in, reducing pressure on central teams
- Training built for occasional users, not only for finance professionals
- Knowledge transfer to institutional staff as a deliverable, not an afterthought
