Higher Education

ERPA has supported higher education institutions for over 25 years with trusted guidance, tailored solutions, and proven outcomes across PeopleSoft, AWS, and Workday.

The Higher Education Challenge

Higher education teams are under pressure to modernize while managing tight budgets, complex stakeholders, and systems that cannot afford downtime. If you’re like most institutions we talk to, you know where you want to go—but outdated systems or limited resources are holding back HR, finance, IT, and Student Information Systems from achieving the transformation you envision for your campus.

Having served Higher Education institutions for more than 25 years, ERPA understands the unique pressures on faculty, administration, researchers, and students. We support colleges and universities with Trusted guidance, Tailored solutions, and Proven outcomes across PeopleSoft, AWS, and Workday.

PeopleSoft for Higher Education

ERPA has provided PeopleSoft services for higher education since our beginning more than 25 years ago. We offer PeopleSoft managed services, strategic consulting, modernization on AWS, and more, helping you keep systems stable and optimized today while planning the right path to future transformation. Our delivery organization includes hundreds of PeopleSoft subject matter experts who can help you maximize the use of the native PeopleSoft features and functionality, drive user adoption, unlock business value, and infuse continuous improvement to grow and adapt your system to meet your campus needs.

Modernize Institution Wide with AWS

For higher education institutions seeking a broader modernization story, ERPA helps you migrate, modernize, and optimize PeopleSoft on AWS, then operate it for a SaaS-like experience through managed services and automation. You gain all the flexibility and scale of the cloud while keeping the ERP that already runs your business. As an AWS Partner, our engineers, architects, and developers hold top tier AWS certifications, including Professional Solutions Architect and Professional DevOps, so your migration is built for long term operations.

Workday for Higher Education

ERPA delivers Workday deployment for higher education across HCM, Financial Management, Payroll, Workday Student, and more, plus long-term value through Workday Support (AMS) and optimization. Our Workday Student team averages 18 years in higher education and 10+ Workday deployments across every functional area, bringing experience with academic calendar complexity, multi-campus operations, and integrations to student systems.

OPTIMA by ERPA leverages AI in a revolutionary way, allowing organizations to deploy Workday with fixed costs, reduced timelines, and industry-tailored support. Our prescriptive approach ensures faster time-to-value while minimizing risk through our proven Deployment as a Service (DaaS) methodology.

According to The Tambellini Group, “80 percent of 3,316 US postsecondary institutions have yet to select a SaaS-architected Finance or HCM platform.” If you want to evolve with Workday but think that it’s out of reach, OPTIMA by ERPA is our deployment methodology developed in concert with Workday and purpose built for resource constrained higher ed institutions like yours.
“Automating student sponsorship invoicing with ERPA’s help has been a game-changer for our finance team. Their integrations audit provided actionable recommendations that strengthened our system reliability. The named resources at ERPA truly understand our needs, making support seamless and efficient.”
ERPA Customer

Start Your Modernization Journey

ERPA helps colleges and universities move forward with practical solutions across PeopleSoft, AWS, and Workday, delivered with transparency and measurable outcomes for 1,000 successful customer engagements and counting. We can structure arrangements with fixed costs and limited risk, so you can move forward at your pace with no surprises.

Whether you are committed to PeopleSoft, building a cloud roadmap, or considering Workday, ERPA can help you reduce total cost of ownership, improve performance, and create future ready campus-wide systems that support your mission. Tell us where you are today, and we will help you define the next step.

Are You Ready?

Get the Most Out of Your ERP Solutions by Partnering With ERPA. Are you ready to see what's possible for your organization? Contact us today!