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The Digital Backbone for Higher Education

Run academics, research, and admin consistently across universities, without replacing core systems.
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Why your transformation is stalling

Truth 1: Every school works its own way

Decentralized decision-making is an unresolved problem across higher ed. It starts when each department and function invents its own forms, approvers, and routing rules.

Truth 2: Approvals live in inboxes

Faculty changes, IRB sign-offs, and vendor approvals occur between systems, not within them. No one owns the trail.

Truth 3: Central IT cannot scale to every request

Departments wait, build workarounds, or buy their own tools, fuelling sprawl and breaking governance.

Higher Education

A digital operations backbone

Kissflow connects your SIS, ERP, LMS, and research systems so they actually work across schools and departments.

Institutional governance & compliance

Board, accreditation, audit, and regulator-facing controls

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Kissflow execution layer

Standardized workflows, departmental autonomy, integrated everywhere.

Approvals Faculty lifecycle IRB Curriculum Grievance Accommodations
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Systems of record

Your core systems remain untouched

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Execution layers with one operational truth

Academic execution

Run academic work the same way, across schools

Today, every department handles course approvals, faculty assignments, and accreditation evidence differently. A shared execution layer fixes that without taking autonomy away.

  • Standardized academic workflows that travel across schools

  • Approvals routed and tracked, not buried in inboxes

  • Departmental ownership stays intact

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Research orchestration

IRB, ethics, and grants without long waiting times

Research timelines slip when IRB, ethics, and grant workflows drag through a scattered set of tools. Bring them into a single flow, with compliance evidence captured as the work happens.

  • End-to-end research approval workflows

  • Compliance checkpoints built into every step

  • Research, finance, and academics share one view

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Policy to practice

Policies that run itself

Your policies sit in a document while the work happens in email threads. Build the policy into the workflow, and there's no gap left.

  • Exception-heavy workflows digitized end to end.
  • Approvals, escalations, and audit trails built in
  • Departmental autonomy preserved with institutional governance
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Institutional intelligence

Controlled secure access at every level

When your best admins retire or move on, that knowledge leaves with them. Capture how they do it inside the workflow itself, while they're still around.

  • Decision logic captured in repeatable workflows

  • Department-led innovation without IT bottlenecks

  • Change that scales incrementally, not in one big rollout

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Academic execution

Run academic work the same way, across schools

Today, every department handles course approvals, faculty assignments, and accreditation evidence differently. A shared execution layer fixes that without taking autonomy away.

  • Standardized academic workflows that travel across schools

  • Approvals routed and tracked, not buried in inboxes

  • Departmental ownership stays intact

Explore more
Academic Execution (1)
Research orchestration

IRB, ethics, and grants without long waiting times

Research timelines slip when IRB, ethics, and grant workflows drag through a scattered set of tools. Bring them into a single flow, with compliance evidence captured as the work happens.

  • End-to-end research approval workflows

  • Compliance checkpoints built into every step

  • Research, finance, and academics share one view

Explore more
Research Orchestration (1)
Policy to practice

Policies that run itself

Your policies sit in a document while the work happens in email threads. Build the policy into the workflow, and there's no gap left.

  • Exception-heavy workflows digitized end to end.
  • Approvals, escalations, and audit trails built in
  • Departmental autonomy preserved with institutional governance
Explore more
Policy to Practice (1)
Institutional intelligence

Controlled secure access at every level

When your best admins retire or move on, that knowledge leaves with them. Capture how they do it inside the workflow itself, while they're still around.

  • Decision logic captured in repeatable workflows

  • Department-led innovation without IT bottlenecks

  • Change that scales incrementally, not in one big rollout

Explore more
Institutional Intelligence (1)

Operations across the higher education lifecycle

Admissions

Recruitment, admissions, intake, enrollment

Student Application Review and Approval
Offer Letter and Admission Decision Workflow
Enrollment Confirmation and Deferral Tracking
Seat Allocation and Program Capacity Management
Transfer Credit Evaluation
Intake Readiness Checklist
Academics

Curriculum, faculty, assessment, accreditation

Course Creation and Approval Workflow
Faculty Onboarding and Credential Verification
Teaching Load and Assignment Approval
Curriculum Change Management
Exam and Assessment Approvals
Accreditation Evidence Collection
StudentLife

Wellbeing, conduct, accessibility, compliance

Student Grievance and Case Management
Disciplinary Action Workflow
Accessibility and Accommodation Requests
Mental Health and Wellness Referrals
Incident Reporting and Escalation
Compliance Documentation (Title IX, FERPA)
Campus

Facilities, maintenance, vendors, events

Facilities Work Order Requests
Preventive Maintenance Scheduling
Classroom Readiness Tracker
Asset and Equipment Downtime Log
Vendor and Contractor Approvals
Event and Space Booking Approvals

Apps your campus actually needs, ready to go live.

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Faculty Lifecycle Manager

Appointments, reappointments, salary changes, and offboarding in one place. Every step on the audit trail.

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IRB and Ethics Approval

Submit, review, and approve research protocols with compliance evidence captured as the work happens.

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Student Grievance and Case Management

Track every case from intake to resolution. Title IX, conduct, and academic appeals on one running log.

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Course and Curriculum Approval

Curriculum changes through the right committees every time, with version control and accreditation-ready records.

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Facilities Work Order

Submit, route, dispatch, and close maintenance work across every campus building, with priority and SLA built in.

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Accommodation Request Workflow

Manage ADA accommodation requests with required documentation, approver routing, and FERPA-safe records built into the form.

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Fortune 500 companies
trust Kissflow

80%

of customers stay with
us for 5+ years

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INDUSTRY Education
HEADQUATERS Australia

“The absence of a centralized platform led to delays in communication, fragmented tools for excursions, admissions, attendance, and consent management, and a poor experience for parents trying to raise concerns or access updates. Kissflow became the college’s unified workflow and portal layer, consolidating 20 core school processes into a single, IT-governed automation hub.”

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    Questions from Higher Ed CIOs

    Kissflow runs as an execution layer, not a system of record. Data flows from Banner, Workday, or Oracle into Kissflow workflows, gets acted on, and flows back. No duplication, no custom middleware, no reconciliation overhead.

    Yes. Each school can keep its local rules and approvers while sharing common compliance, audit, and reporting standards. Departments stay autonomous. Governance stays consistent.

    Most workflows go live in 3 to 6 weeks. Prebuilt higher ed templates shorten that further when they fit your use case.

    A unified execution layer that sits between your systems of record and your governance layer. It does not replace your SIS, ERP, LMS, or research systems. It runs the workflows that connect them and gives leadership real-time control over approvals, exceptions, and compliance.

    Every workflow carries a built-in audit trail. Title IX cases, FERPA-controlled records, IRB approvals, and accreditation evidence are captured as work happens. Role-based access protects sensitive student and research data. You are audit-ready continuously, not reactively.

    We start with a workshop to anchor on the highest-value use case, usually Faculty Lifecycle, IRB Approval, or Student Grievance. Pilot goes live in 4 to 6 weeks. Scale-out across schools and departments follows in 6 to 12 months.

    SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, GDPR, FERPA-aligned controls, encryption at rest and in transit, and role-based access tied to your campus identity provider. Enterprise-grade from day one.

    You don't need another system. You need the ones you already have to finally work together. That's what we build.