Higher Education · ESM

Education Operations for ESM

A purpose-built solution that extends ServiceNow Customer Service Management to bring essential university functions onto a single, enterprise-wide service-management platform.

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One platform for the operational engine of your university.

By centralising and standardising processes across departments, Education Operations eliminates operational silos, enhances collaboration, and enables institutions to work smarter, not harder.

The latest version builds on the foundation of the original release with enhanced features, improved performance, and a more seamless user experience.

The problem

Universities under pressure to do more with less.

Higher-education institutions face increasing pressure to streamline operations, enhance service delivery, and ensure compliance — all while managing constrained budgets and evolving regulatory requirements. Siloed systems and fragmented processes lead to inefficiencies, bottlenecks, and unnecessary costs.

Functions covered

Ready-to-use case management for ten university functions

Education Operations ships with separate, pre-configured case management for the most common non-academic functions in a university.

Alumni

Alumni relations and engagement cases.

Brand Management

Brand requests, approvals, and asset usage.

Environmental Safety

Environmental and health-and-safety incidents.

Legal Services

Legal review, intake, and matter handling.

People Management

HR and people-related cases.

Physical Security

Physical security incidents and requests.

Public Relations

PR and communications cases.

Purchasing

Procurement requests and approvals.

Regulatory

Compliance and regulatory matters.

Workplace Management

Facilities and workplace requests.

Built on ServiceNow CSM, Education Operations inherits full case-management, SLA, knowledge, and self-service capabilities.

Ecosystem

Part of a connected suite for higher education.

Education Operations works alongside Education Core, Campus Wellbeing, and Academic Hub. Education Core provides the shared data foundation; Education Operations layers in enterprise-wide service management for non-academic functions.

  • Built on ServiceNow CSM.Inherits the platform's case, SLA, and knowledge capabilities.
  • Ten functions out of the box.From Alumni to Workplace, ready to deploy.
  • Standardised across departments.One way of working, everywhere.
  • Suite-ready.Plugs into Education Core for shared data and a unified portal.
[Placeholder] Detailed product spec — current version, ServiceNow release compatibility, dependencies, supported languages, and screenshots of each functional area — to be added once confirmed with the Ikwa team.

Bring your university operations onto one platform.

Book a 30-minute demo and we'll walk you through how Education Operations consolidates ten university functions on ServiceNow CSM.

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