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Eight platforms are ranked below, from the enterprise suites sold by Workday, Oracle and Ellucian to systems built for specialist and smaller institutions. Each entry sets out what the platform covers, the features most relevant to university buyers and what the vendor publishes about pricing, which in most cases is very little. Full Fabric ranks first as the strongest cloud-native CRM and SIS for business schools.
Full Fabric is one of the few vendors in this category to publish a platform price: €12,000 per year, the same for every institution. That fee covers contact management, custom lifecycles, events, forms, landing pages, workflows and automations. The Commerce, Admissions and SIS modules are billed on usage (per submitted application, per processed applicant and per registered student), and unit prices fall as volume grows.
For a business school, the more important figure is how many systems the platform replaces. CRM, admissions, applications and payments, and the student record share one data model, so an applicant's enquiry, evaluation and deposit sit on the same record as the later grades and transcript. The SIS module handles course and calendar management, grades, re-registration, transcripts, diplomas and stacked learner management, with HESA reporting for UK institutions. Bidirectional connectors for Salesforce, Dynamics and HubSpot, plus a UCAS connector, allow existing systems to stay in place.
The platform holds ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification and was listed as a Representative Vendor in the 2025 Gartner Market Guide for Higher Education Recruitment and Admissions Platforms. It does not include finance or HR ERP modules or US financial aid processing, so a large university replacing its whole back office would run other systems alongside it.
Key features:
Pricing: €12,000 per year platform fee; Commerce, Admissions and SIS modules priced on usage; implementation billed separately as a one-off fee on time and materials.
Ellucian sells only to higher education, and its student portfolio is the widest in this ranking. The Ellucian Student brand now spans Banner, Colleague and Anthology Student, which arrived when Ellucian's acquisition of Anthology's SIS and ERP business closed on 31 December 2025. Banner SaaS is described as covering enquiry to graduation, with automated upgrades and REST APIs built on the Ethos Data Model, while a customer quoted on the product page reports a nine-month Colleague SaaS implementation.
The company reports about 3,000 customers in 50 countries, and Gartner named it a Leader in the Magic Quadrant for Higher Education SaaS SIS for the second consecutive year. Ellucian HCM and Ellucian Finance run on the same platform. The three SIS lines overlap, however, and no long-term convergence plan has been published.
Key features:
Pricing: Not published; Ellucian offers a demo request and an ROI calculator.
OneEducation is a SaaS ERP rather than a standalone SIS. Student management, from recruitment and enrolment through progression, graduation and alumni, sits on a single data model with financials, HR, payroll, timetabling and curriculum management. The curriculum tooling came from TechnologyOne's acquisition of CourseLoop.
TechnologyOne has developed ERP software since 1987 and operates regional sites for Australia, New Zealand and the UK. Its SaaS+ model is described as all inclusive, with implementation, support and upgrades folded into the fee. That structure suits universities consolidating several back-office systems at once; institutions in North America or continental Europe will find no regional presence.
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Pricing: Not published; SaaS+ is described as including implementation, support and upgrade costs.
Oracle maintains two student systems. Oracle Student, launched in 2014 as Oracle Student Cloud, combines Oracle Student Management with Oracle Student Financial Planning for financial aid. PeopleSoft Campus Solutions 9.2 remains available on premises or hosted, and Oracle describes a migration path from it to the cloud product.
The curriculum registry in Oracle Student Management handles variable course lengths, grade and credit types, and credentials. Pay-to-enrol billing, learning packages and sponsorship agreements serve continuing education, and dynamic entities support consortia and multi-institution degrees without reimplementation. References to FERPA in the documentation indicate a US orientation.
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Pricing: Not published.
Classter is one of two competitors here with published pricing. Charges are calculated per active student and depend on the modules chosen; the company's example for a 1,000-student higher education institution lists the Core module at €8.50 per active student and Academics and LMS at €6.50.
The platform combines SIS, LMS, CRM and ERP modules, including a College module, Internship and Thesis, a gradebook and attendance. More than 40 integrations cover Office 365, Microsoft Teams, Moodle, Canvas, Brightspace and HubSpot, and the website is available in seven languages. Classter also serves K12 schools and training centres, and its pricing page does not mention national reporting such as HESA or IPEDS.
Key features:
Pricing: Custom, per active student and by module.
Workday Student runs on the same platform as Workday HCM, Financial Management and Adaptive Planning, so embedded analytics can span student, finance and people data. Named higher education users include Deakin, the University of Queensland and Macquarie University, and the University of Arkansas System runs 14 institutions on Workday HCM, Finance and Student.
Modules cover student records, AI-powered academic planning with at-risk insights for advisors, mobile-first self-service and student financials. The overview pages do not mention statutory reporting frameworks such as HESA or IPEDS, and Workday's Canada page carries a notice that unreleased features may change or not be delivered.
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Pricing: Not published; contact sales.
Thesis SM, previously Unit4 Student Management, targets small and mid-sized institutions in the UK and Canada. Its UK G-Cloud listing cites clients from 1,000 to almost 40,000 students. UK statutory coverage includes HESA and HESES, ILR, UniStats, and UKVI and CAS, while Canadian institutions get T2202 tax forms.
Open APIs support create, read, update and delete operations on almost all entities, and all data can be exported as CSV. Implementation takes 12 to 24 months depending on institution size, and US institutions are directed to a separate product, Thesis Elements.
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Pricing: Not published; demo on request.
Classe365 publishes modular pricing built on two variables: the number of students on its Core module and the add-on modules activated. Add-ons are priced per activation with unlimited students, annual plan renewals receive a 10% discount, and enterprise pricing applies above 1,000 students.
The product pairs SIS records, enrolments, attendance and report cards with LMS, CRM, admissions forms, degree audit and online payments, backed by public API documentation. National higher education reporting is not mentioned, which limits its fit for institutions with statutory returns.
Key features:
Pricing: Core priced by student numbers; add-on modules priced per activation; 10% discount on annual renewals.
Full Fabric is the overall pick for business schools and specialist institutions. Of the eight, it brings CRM, admissions, payments and the student record together on one data model, publishes a flat platform fee, and it states an ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification. Its limits are clear: no finance or HR ERP and no US financial aid processing.
For a large university that wants student records, HR and finance from a single higher education vendor, Ellucian is the alternative to shortlist, particularly in North America where its student aid tooling carries the most weight. Institutions already running Workday HCM, or Oracle Cloud ERP, will reasonably start with those vendors' student products instead.