From Tuition Fee Payment to Strategic Financial Planning, Financial Systems Help Institutions
ListEdTech is a market research firm that only tracks systems used in education. Our user-friendly portal offers data on more than 30 product categories, including Financial Systems. For this product category, we track over 8,700 implementations, mainly in North America, both at the higher education and at the school district levels.
What Are Financial Systems?
For a comprehensive definition of this product category, please refer to our official documentation website.
Note: Our documentation provides tailored descriptions for both Higher Education and K-12 School District implementations.
What’s Inside our Product Category Reports?
Each ListEdTech product category report delivers a clear, data-driven view of a specific segment of the educational technology market. Beginning with a definition of the category, the report explores its current landscape, historical shifts, competitive positioning, and emerging trends—providing actionable insights for institutions, vendors, and decision-makers.
Table of Contents
- Introduction (including a definition of the product category)
- Executive Summary
- Current Market Snapshot
- Historical Trends (last ten years)
- Competitive Compass Insights
- Strategic Market Trends (key recent developments, innovations, and shifts in the product category)
- Pricing Trends
- Conclusion
- Vendor List
- About ListEdTech
Note: Our reports do not include detailed data. However, this information is available for purchase to portal subscribers.
Why Use the ListEdTech Portal?
408,000
product implementations tracked among 35 product categories
7,502
institutions, in our database, using a Financial system
125
Financial products in our database
List of Companies and Products in Financial Systems
| Company | Product | Degree Type |
|---|---|---|
| Alliant Data Systems Inc. | Alliant Distributed Purchasing | HigherEd |
| B-Plan Information Systems Ltd | Aptos Financials | HigherEd |
| Blackbaud | Financial Edge (Blackbaud) | HigherEd & School Districts |
| Blackbaud | Financial Edge NXT | HigherEd |
| BluQube company | BluQube | HigherEd |
| CGI Group Inc | CGI Advantage Financial | HigherEd |
| Digii | CollPoll ERP | HigherEd |
| Ellucian | Anthology Finance | HigherEd |
| Ellucian | Banner Finance | HigherEd |
| Ellucian | CampusNexus Finance | HigherEd |
| Ellucian | CampusVue Finance | HigherEd |
| Ellucian | Colleague Financial Management | HigherEd |
| Ellucian | Ellucian Colleague Finance | HigherEd |
| EMS LINQ Inc | Alio Finance | School Districts |
| FACTS Management Company | FACTS Financial Management | School Districts |
| Focus School Software | Focus Finance | HigherEd & School Districts |
| Frontline Education | Frontline Finance and Payroll | School Districts |
| Harris School Solutions | AptaFund | School Districts |
| Harris School Solutions | ProSoft | School Districts |
| Harris School Solutions | WinCap Financial | HigherEd & School Districts |
| Homegrown Systems | Homegrown Financial Systems | HigherEd |
| Infor | SunSystems Cloud | HigherEd |
| Intuit | QuickBooks | HigherEd |
| Jenzabar Inc. | Jenzabar CX – Financial Management | HigherEd |
| Jenzabar Inc. | Jenzabar EX – Financial Management | HigherEd |
| Jenzabar Inc. | Jenzabar JX – Financial | HigherEd |
| Jenzabar Inc. | Jenzabar One FI | HigherEd |
| Kuali | Kuali Financials | HigherEd |
| Logos | Logos Financial | HigherEd |
| NetSuite | NetSuite ERP | HigherEd |
| Nisseicom | GrowOne Financial | HigherEd |
| Odoo | Odoo | HigherEd |
| OneAdvanced | EFinancials | HigherEd |
| Oracle | Oracle E-Business Suite Financials | HigherEd |
| Oracle | Oracle Financials | HigherEd |
| Oracle | Oracle Fusion Cloud Financials | HigherEd |
| Oracle | Oracle PeopleSoft Enterprise Financial Management | HigherEd & School Districts |
| PowerSchool | Atrieve Finance | School Districts |
| PowerSchool | BusinessPLUS Finance | School Districts |
| PowerSchool | PowerSchool eFinancePlus | School Districts |
| Prophix Software | Prophix Financial | HigherEd |
| SAP AG | SAP Financial Management Software | HigherEd |
| Serosoft Solutions | Academia Finance | HigherEd |
| Skytech Communications | Clara Finances by Skytech | HigherEd |
| Skyward | Qmlativ Finance | School Districts |
| Skyward | Skyward School Business Suite – Financial | School Districts |
| Software Unlimited Inc. | Software Unlimited School Accounting System | School Districts |
| Sylogist | SylogistEd FIN | School Districts |
| TechnologyOne Limited | TechnologyOne Enterprise Budgeting | HigherEd |
| TechnologyOne Limited | TechnologyOne Financials | HigherEd |
| The Texas A&M University System | CANOPY | HigherEd |
| TOTVS | FAMIS | HigherEd |
| Tyler Technologies | Tyler School ERP Pro Financial (Ivisions) | HigherEd & School Districts |
| Unit4 | Agresso Business World – Financial | HigherEd |
| Unit4 | CAMS Enterprise – Fiscal Management | HigherEd |
| Unit4 | Unit4 Financials by Coda | HigherEd |
| UNIVERSITAS XXI Soluciones y Tecnologia para la Universidad | UXXI Economic | HigherEd |
| Vanco | Smartcare | School Districts |
| Workday | Workday Financial Management | HigherEd |
IT’S ALL ABOUT THE DATA
How Does ListEdTech Gather Its Data?
We systematically aggregate and structure publicly available data—including official news releases, professional social media platforms, university portals, and corporate websites—to build our market insights.
Our dataset focuses extensively on:
- Company Profiles: Educational vendors, product classifications, and specific institutional characteristics.
- Institutional Tech Stacks: Primary and secondary systems supported by an institution.
- Market Dynamics: Product implementation timelines, contract details, RFP documentation, and decommission dates.
Data Quality & Accuracy Validation
To maintain strict data integrity, our research team cross-references and validates information directly at the source, managing more than 3 million historical data points with strict controls to prevent the overrepresentation of any single software solution.
As part of our continuous quality control framework, our database undergoes comprehensive monthly reviews, consistently achieving a verified 95% accuracy rate.
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- Are ERPs in Decline?In his article “The Decline And Fall Of ERP, And Why Colleges Should Care” posted on August 23, 2024, Ryan Craig argues that the decline of traditional Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems and the rise of specialized SaaS (Software as a Service) platforms have significantly transformed the job market, especially for entry-level positions. Historically, ERPs… Read more: Are ERPs in Decline?
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