Your institution needs enterprise-level software (ERP) systems that meet your unique needs, costs less to operate, and gives your business officers control over their destiny.
Reports state that during the 1990’s and 2000’s, higher education spent over $5 billion on ERP systems. The current economic climate makes spending millions of dollars on new or upgraded systems nearly impossible to justify. This is why we created Kuali.
The Foundation is the umbrella organization that supports the Kuali community. Volunteers from institutions around the world serve on the Kuali Foundation Board of Directors. This team of community leaders works with a small executive staff to lead and support Kuali community activities
By joining the Foundation, members pay annual dues so that the Foundation can provide services to the Kuali community.
We ensure all reporting is completed properly to the partners and to the IRS, and that Kuali follows Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP).
We provide economies of scale in finding event space, and we hold one user conference and one community face-to-face workshop annually.
Kuali has multiple outreach and communication channels to engage higher education within Kuali communities and beyond to other types of communities.
Kuali has created governance structures for collaboration to espouse best practices across diverse institutions and organizations, and by leveraging resources.
Kuali is a not-for-profit foundation which does not sell services; therefore, your institutional requirements for becoming a member or a partner likely do not require the same level of procurement procedures as working with a vendor.
Our identity has become recognized for its reputation in community building and sustainment.
The Kuali Foundation allows institutions of higher education to achieve the goals of lower costs and operational control through open source collaboration and delivery in the cloud. Kuali is developing a comprehensive suite of ERP software that are specifically designed by college and university partners to meet their own needs.
Since Kuali software can be consumed open source and on-premise or through the cloud. It cannot be taken away, closed down or discontinued. And, perhaps most importantly, the sharing of best practices, implementation templates, training materials, and reporting structures reduces what had been recurring costs.
All of this leads to a lower total cost of ownership and allows you to return those funds back to your institution’s mission of teaching and research.
