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Infosys and University of Nottingham extend strategic collaboration to strengthen digital infrastructure for student management system

Infosys, a global leader in next-generation digital services and consulting, and the University of Nottingham announced an extension of their strategic collaboration to ensure high performance and security compliance for the University’ s critical Student Management System.

Building on a successful collaboration since 2017, Infosys supported a comprehensive Digital Transformation of the University’ s Student Information System, streamlining application processes and enhancing compliance reporting. This resulted in reduction of incident volumes by 70 %, improved system availability and performance by approximately 30 %, reduced infrastructure costs by over 35 % and improved user experience.
Through this collaboration, Infosys will help the University of Nottingham maintain NottinghamHub, its Student Information System. Infosys will also enhance key student lifecycle processes with a focus on improving student and academic journeys. In addition, the collaboration will modernise the university’ s infrastructure to improve application availability and strengthen web security through the implementation of Multi-Factor Authentication( MFA). decision-making, helping create a truly digital-first academic environment for 46,000 students and 12,000 staff across the university’ s global campuses.
Jo Simpson, Chief Revenue Officer, University of Nottingham, said:“ Enhancing our strategic partnership with Infosys will strengthen both our digital infrastructure and our ability to deliver new, high value experiences for our students. The strong alignment between Infosys’ industry expertise and our applied learning programmes creates exciting opportunities to deepen industry connected learning and introduce new forms of support that will help our
Infosys will leverage its advanced technologies to support this transformation. students perform at the highest level. This collaboration will enable our students to access the skills and real-world experience that are shaping the future of engineering and digital technology.”
Ashiss Kumar Dash, EVP and Global Head – Services, Utilities, Resources, Energy and Enterprise Sustainability, Infosys, said:“ We are excited to deepen our collaboration with the University of Nottingham to tackle some of the most pressing challenges facing the education sector today. From navigating the complexities of global campuses to meeting the evolving expectations of digitally native students, universities must embrace innovation to stay ahead. Through this collaboration, powered by Infosys Cobalt and Infosys Topaz Fabric, we are enabling the University of Nottingham to set new benchmarks for how technology can empower higher educational institutions to thrive in a rapidly changing world.” • Infosys will leverage its advanced technologies to support this transformation. These include Infosys Cobalt, a set of services, solutions and platforms for enterprises to accelerate their cloud journey and Infosys Topaz Fabric, a purpose-built agentic services suite – a multi-layer AI fabric that unifies infrastructure, models, data, applications and workflows into a composable, agentready ecosystem.
Together, these will play a central role in modernising operations, unifying systems and automating processes for data-driven
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