For more than a decade Simitive has worked exclusively with universities (over 60 in UK and Australia) to develop innovative products and expert services.
The Simitive ecosystem of Teaching Allocation Management, Workload Management, Activity Based Costing & Contribution, Review and their embedded Analytics provide unique insights to facilitate operational effectivity and consequential financial stability.
Simitive’s unparalleled knowledge and experience in these critical areas enables Simitive Consultants to help effect the cultural and operational change that is required to enable the realisation of strategic plans and imperatives whilst simultaneously meeting the challenges facing institutions.
Contact: info@simitive.com
Find out more: www.simitive.com
evasys is the market leading survey solution for UK HE. Student Voice AI is a text analysis tool purpose-built for UK HE. Together they harness the power of AI to deliver insights against open comments from internal surveys and NSS/PTES/PRES. All are allocated sentiment, well over 90% to one or more relevant categories. Dashboards, sector benchmarks, narrative reports are available.
Contact: enquiries@evasys.co.uk
Explorance empowers higher education institutions with next-generation feedback analytics to accelerate the insight-to-action cycle. As a collaborative partner, Explorance aligns with institutions that embrace a feedback culture, where open and courageous conversations are encouraged to drive purpose, impact, and growth.
In an AI-driven world where feedback is a critical tool that can lead to improved decision-making, Explorance stands by the philosophy of "Feedback for the brave.” Committed to amplifying the voices of students, staff, and faculty, Explorance tailors its solutions for institutions to advance vital initiatives through student and employee feedback: Teaching Effectiveness, Learning Excellence, Student Experience, and Staff Engagement.
Find out more: www.explorance.com
Spitfire Analytics are finance professionals that specialise in helping our customers, across a range of industries, bring efficiency, speed and agility to their finance teams. We do this by designing and implementing the automation of your planning, budgeting, forecasting and analysis processes, using IBM® Planning Analytics.
Contact: john.buchanan@spitfire-analytics.com
Find out more: spitfire-analytics.com
TechnologyOne is a global Software as a Service (SaaS) company. Their enterprise SaaS solution transforms business and makes life simple for universities by providing powerful, deeply integrated enterprise software that is incredibly easy to use. The company takes complete responsibility to market, sell, implement, support and run solutions for customers, which reduce time, cost and risk.
OneEducation, its student-centric, end-to-end ERP SaaS solution for the Higher Education sector is used by more than 50 per cent of the UK’s universities. The comprehensive and scalable software platform integrates seamlessly, providing a holistic approach to managing finance, student records management, human resources, procurement, payroll, asset management, and other key areas of university administration. By consolidating disparate systems and automating manual processes, OneEducation enables universities to improve decision making, provide an exemplary student and employee experience and importantly, improve their cybersecurity credentials.
To remove the need for complex consulting services that stifle investment and cost universities millions, TechnologyOne has launched a transformational end-to-end offering that will fundamentally redefine enterprise software and its delivery. ‘Solution as a Service’ (SaaS+) is the breakthrough answer to the three greatest impediments to investing in digital transformation – time to value, cost, and complexity. SaaS+ offers one fee, with no upfront costs, a guaranteed outcome, and a drastically reduced implementation timeline. The single yearly fee contains all the costs required to implement, run, support and upgrade the best-in-class solution.
Founded in Australia, TechnologyOne has offices across six countries. The company’s growth in the higher education sector follows a significant investment into its UK operations.
Find out more: https://www.technology1.co.uk/industries/education
Strengthify supports higher education strategy and planning leaders to shape resilient, strengths-based cultures that deliver through change. Grounded in positive psychology, our practical and proven programmes help leaders focus on what people do best, turning strengths into clearer ways of working, stronger collaboration and sustained motivation under pressure. We help teams build shared language, improve decision-making and create the conditions for engagement, wellbeing and performance to grow together. Designed for the realities of higher education, our approach strengthens leadership capability and team resilience, helping organisations maintain momentum, navigate complexity and achieve lasting impact.
Find out more: www.strengthify.com
Studyportals is the international study choice platform, helping students to find and compare their study options across borders. With over 245,000+ published courses from over 3,500+ participating HE institutions and over 50 million users per year, Studyportals is a leading information source for study seekers. At the same time, the company’s results-based channels support universities with digital marketing, analytics, and international student recruitment, enabling them to reach a global audience and diversify their student population.
Our mission is to empower the world to choose education.
Contact: hello@studyportals.com
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At The Anywhere Company, we create the golden thread between strategy, risk, and project investments to create complete transparency, control, and confidence across your organisation. Whether you're aligning projects to strategic goals, embedding risk management through effective governance, or ensuring teams focus on what truly drives value - our platform brings it all together in one adaptive solution.
Contact: smccormack@theanywherecompany.com
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Thesis SM is a cloud-native Student Information System (SIS) purpose-built for higher education institutions across the UK, Ireland, and Canada. Designed to span the entire student lifecycle, from application through to graduation, it offers a modern, secure, and scalable platform that integrates seamlessly with existing institutional systems.
At Thesis SM, we recognise that a Student Information System is the backbone of any institution. We’ve spent years working in and alongside universities, so we understand the daily challenges faced by staff and students. Our system is purpose-built to turn complexity into simplicity, streamlining processes, empowering teams, and improving the student journey. By focusing on user-centred design, intuitive no-code automation, and advanced analytics, we reduce administrative burdens and create smarter workflows. Our approach of “configure, not customise” ensures institutions have the flexibility to adapt quickly and efficiently, without dependence on IT specialists.
Thesis SM serves as the engine of your institution, fostering a seamlessly connected campus ecosystem that promotes an efficient, collaborative, and scalable educational environment.
Contact: hello@thesiscloud.com
Find out more: www.thesis.sm
We are an executive search firm. We work primarily with higher education clients to develop outstanding teams, cultures and structures. We support our clients in making senior executive appointments across academic and professional service roles and also in searching for recruits to non-executive positions, as well as leading interim assignments. We have a strong reputation for our highly personalised approach, commitment to diversity, complete dedication to candidate care, and high-quality work. In addition to headhunting, our portfolio of services extends to governance review, leadership development, 360 degree reviews, and staff engagement surveys.
Our consultants bring the best of large company disciplines together with a leaner, more flexible approach which enables us to respond to the diversity of need and value consciousness of our clients.
Since founding in 2013, we have worked on over 900 appointments. While our primary focus is Higher Education, we work for clients across a broad range of sectors with specific commitment to and expertise in global development, culture, publishing, education and third sector. Our pool of candidates is global.
We also channel significant efforts into our pro-bono leadership development programme for mid-career BAME professionals and into our initiative to provide boards with apprentice members, and people from under-represented backgrounds with the opportunity to develop their experience of governance.
Contact: kerry@minervasearch.com
Find out more: https://www.minervasearch.com/
