NEW YORK & BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Unit4, a world leader in enterprise systems for higher education, has announced that Relay Graduate School of Education implemented Unit4 Business World ERP running on the Microsoft Azure platform to consolidate and streamline business operations across multiple campuses. The end-to-end solution replaces multiple legacy systems, creating a simpler, more intuitive workflow that saves time and improves processes across all departments.
Headquartered in New York City and with 18 campuses across the U.S., Relay Graduate School of Education is dedicated to teaching teachers and school leaders to develop in all students the academic skills and strength of character needed to succeed in college and life. The institution operates 18 campuses across the country, reaching nearly 5,000 educators. Relay’s approach to teacher preparation and its dedication to partnerships with local public schools has led to rapid growth over the past two years, with expanded online learning programs and the opening of nine new campuses since 2016.
“Unit4 Business World is a cloud-first solution, and we love that the platform provides a complete and holistic view of activities across all our departments and campuses,” said Edmund O’Neill, Senior Director of Technology at Relay Graduate School of Education. “Immediately when I log in via our institutional single sign-on, being able to bounce from check requests, to paid time off balances, to expense reports helps save me time and brain space. As someone who loves data, I can’t overstate how much of a gamechanger Unit4’s detailed, yet usable format is for pulling reports and analyses compared to the multiple, siloed solutions we relied on before.”
Unit4 Business World provides Relay’s faculty and staff with a single, standalone ERP platform that simplifies work-related tasks through a unified and user-friendly interface. All Relay employees use the platform to perform business-related tasks, such as completing financial and budget information, filling out purchase and expense reports, and requesting time off. Since launch, Relay faculty and staff have cited significant time savings from Business World. Additionally, as a hosted cloud solution, Relay benefits from minimal time spent on IT and infrastructure, freeing up resources to focus on business-related goals and initiatives.
“Relay’s forward-thinking approach to academics and its unique vision for teacher preparation has always been at the heart of the institution,” said Jeremy Roche, chief product officer at Unit4. “With a modern, cloud-hosted enterprise solution, this innovative institution is further elevating its ability to deliver a seamless educational experience, helping shape tomorrow’s educators.”
Relay is also deploying Unit4 Student Management, which will modernize, academics, financial aid, and analytics, all previously managed across a variety of systems. Additionally, the platform will improve communications with both teachers and alumni of the institution.
About Relay Graduate School of Education
The Relay Graduate
School of Education is a national, accredited, nonprofit institution of
higher education whose mission is to teach teachers and school leaders
to develop in all students the academic skills and strength of character
needed to succeed in college and life. Now serving over 3,500 teachers
in 18 cities and more than 1,200 leaders nationwide, Relay is eager to
bring about transformational change in educator preparation. Relay is
committed to using practice and feedback to become the place where a new
generation of continuously improving, results-focused individuals can
fulfill their destiny in the world’s greatest profession. For more
information, please visit the Relay website (www.relay.edu)
or follow Relay on Twitter (@RelayGSE).
About Unit4 in Higher Education
Unit4 is in business for
people. We’ve specialized in software for service organizations since
the early 1980s. Today, we build the smartest enterprise applications on
the planet. Our technology is central to the organizations we serve – it
improves efficiency and productivity and allows people to spend more
time on meaningful work. Using the latest AI, machine learning and
digital technologies, our customers can make more sense of
business-critical data than ever before. We provide ERP, performance
management and student information systems to over 1000 colleges and
universities globally to help them accelerate growth, boost student
success, and improve institutional effectiveness. Clients include Oxford
and Cambridge Universities, HEC Paris, University of Waterloo, American
University of Paris, Manchester Metropolitan University, Robert Morris
University, Baylor College of Medicine, Hult International, and
University of Dubai.
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