The University of Manchester, one of the world’s leading education institutions, is adopting Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications Suite to unify business processes and support its mission to advance education, knowledge, and wisdom for the good of society. With Oracle Fusion Applications, the University of Manchester can increase productivity, enhance decision-making, improve the employee experience, and take advantage of the latest advancements in predictive, generative, and agentic AI.

Founded in 1824, The University of Manchester is the largest single-site university in the UK, with 44,000 students, 12,000 staff, and 550,000 alumni from 190 countries. To help achieve its goal of delivering efficient IT services to support its current and future needs, The University of Manchester needed to replace its aging on-premises systems, which managed data in silos and limited access to critical business insights. After a thorough review, The University of Manchester selected Oracle Fusion Applications to standardise operations and enable AI-powered efficiency.

“Our fragmented systems create unnecessary complexities for faculty and administrative staff, making it difficult to gain operational visibility and quickly respond to needs,” said Carol Prokopyszyn, CFO, The University of Manchester. “By moving key business processes to the cloud with Oracle Fusion Applications, we can give our colleagues access to great quality data, support them with simpler standard processes and improve their user experience.”

With Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), The University of Manchester can increase productivity, reduce costs, and improve financial controls. Oracle Fusion Cloud Enterprise Performance Management (EPM), part of Oracle Cloud ERP, will help The University of Manchester streamline planning and budgeting processes, reduce the time to close the books, and drive better decision-making. In addition, with Oracle Fusion Cloud Human Capital Management (HCM), The University of Manchester will be able to centralise HR operations on a single platform, generate better workforce insights, and improve the employee experience.

“As student needs evolve and operational costs rise, universities must embrace accurate, touchless processes and embedded AI capabilities to boost efficiency and enhance decision-making,” said Guy Armstrong, senior vice president of applications, Oracle UK and Ireland. “With Oracle Fusion Applications, The University of Manchester can increase productivity, expand insights, and improve workforce management as it continues to build on its two-hundred year legacy of educational excellence.”

Oracle Fusion Applications Suite enables organisations to take advantage of the cloud and the latest advancements in predictive, generative, and agentic AI to break down organisational silos, standardise processes, and manage finance, HR, supply chain, and customer experience data on a single integrated cloud platform. To learn more about Oracle Fusion Applications Suite, please visit: oracle.com/applications.