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Reimagining the university experience

Universities have the chance to shape future leaders and society by rethinking the student journey. Creating sustainable, personalised experiences can inspire students at every step.

A strong digital strategy evaluates a university's current position and identifies ways to adopt new technologies. Understanding the present environment and evolving based on student and staff needs is crucial. Efficient processes and well-implemented technologies can quickly boost efficiency and enhance the student experience, both online and on campus.

Today’s students, as digital natives, expect empowering, tech-driven learning environments. Beyond education, technology must support collaboration, safety, and inclusion across campus life.

As universities transform the student experience, they also gain operational efficiencies through proactive processes and data-driven insights. With growing competition, accelerating digital transformation in higher education is essential.

Partnering for success

We collaborate with universities to help them tackle today's challenges, accelerate their digital transformation journeys, and strengthen their position and brand within the education sector. Using this vision for the future of higher education, we created our Digital Led University proposition. Our digital solutions help universities become enriching, simplified, secure environments, using:

  • Digital strategy to develop a clear understanding of the university’s current business model, how it is changing and designing a future roadmap by defining objectives, decision ownership and accountability which translate into an executable plan.
  • Technology and application modernisation to take your IT services to greater business value heights.
  • University user experience strategies and solutions that empower and satisfy the demands of all stakeholders, from students and alumni to academics and investors.
  • CGI Advisory Services for digital transformation empower your university to evolve, compete, and achieve its desired outcomes. By implementing robust technologies and innovative higher education software solutions, CGI enhances all aspects of university life, systems, and operations.
  • The Digital Led Campus approach, with IoT-driven use cases that dramatically transform everyday university life.
  • Emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence, augmented reality and data strategy to deliver innovative, efficient university experiences.
  • Effective cyber security solutions to protect increasingly connected and open academic environments.
  • Robust sustainability solutions to establish the university as a leading establishment making meaningful impact.

Our Digitial Partnership Delivery Model

We offer flexible delivery models and bespoke services to meet the needs of your organisation, where ultimate authority and strategic direction remains with the university.

Through working in partnership, we can help universities to identify emerging opportunities, and create new business streams by utilising the full power of digital.

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Innovative solutions that revolutionise higher education

In our ever-evolving world, technology provides higher education institutions with unlimited opportunities to continuously adapt. We understand that digital transformation in Universities isn’t simple! 

Our Digital Led University approach supports clients with the right strategy and innovative digital solutions that are aligned to their institution.

The Digital Led University

The university experience is simplified, seamless and secure for the convenience of students, staff and investors, and your university benefits from an increased reputation, cost savings, sustainable operations and much more. Explore what the Digital Led University experience looks like.

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Digital Solutions for Higher Education