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Student Lifecycle Management Scenarios What are they about and which

SAP components are required in order to benefit of them?

Student Lifecycle Management Scenarios - What are they about and which SAP

components are required in order to benefit of them?

When we receive the question "What is SAP's Student Lifecycle Management about?" and

try to come up with a short generic, but concrete answer we are pretty challenged. Why?

Because you cannot really answer that question without explaining the "big picture" behind it

- SAP ERP and SAP NetWeaver - and that SAP Student Lifecycle Management is built on

them.

SAP Student Lifecycle Management is an integral part of SAP's Enterprise Core Component

(current version ECC 6.0) and it needs to be activated as an industry extension via the switch

framework.

Some of the major academic processes that can be handled with it are:

Management of student bio-demographic data

Admissions and enrollment processing

Course and class registration

Class and exam scheduling

Transfer articulation

Tuition calculation and Student billing

Degree Audit

Grading

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Graduation and degree confermentSAP Student Lifecycle Management is fully integrated to SAP components like SAP

Financials and SAP Human Capital Management which are also in the ERP layer. However,these components need to be configured only to an extent as required by the business

processes of the institutions' Student Lifecycle Management scenarios.

The benefit this design holds for customers is - besides the fully integrated data - a high reuse

of ERP configuration. However, if a customer starts with one component and wants to keep

the option open to extend the implementation later, the configuration should take this into

consideration. E. g., while setting up the organizational structure for a HCM implementation

one should make sure that it reflects the real structure of faculties such that it is possible to

build the academic structure on top of it.

Leveraging knowhow is another benefit provided by the reuse option of components. Whilestudent fee and grant calculation are rather specific features of SAP Student Lifecycle

Management, general processes such as dunning, interest calculation or account maintenance

can be configured with general knowledge about SAP's FI-CA component.

SAP Student Lifecycle Management Education customers can leverage additional benefits

within SAP NetWeaver components as they provide content for a number of business

processes, for example:

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Enterprise Portal content for Self Services in the area of Grading and AcademicAdvising

BW extractors that allow reporting on academic processes

Student data distribution via Process Integration (PI)Thus in addition to the use of the integration platform, additional content is provided which is

not available if other technologies are used.

SAP's Netweaver strategy allows also other software providers to offer content for Netweaver

and to become certified SAP partners Or they can even become 'Powered by NetWeaver'

partners which demonstrates their ability to build composite processes on top of SAPNetWeaver. Read more about these options atwww.partnerwithsap.com

Customers and partners have the choice between various options - for example using a

specific student housing/accommodation product or deploying a housing scenario on the

platform of SAP Real Estate FX within ERP.

SAP Customer Relationship Management makes it possible to extend Student Lifecycle

Management in ERP for additional business processes e. g. by recruitment campaigns. The

student and prospect records are fully integrated throughout the student lifecycle.

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