# SunGard Higher Education and Public Sector

> Historical SunGard enterprise software business serving universities, school districts, nonprofits and government agencies with administrative systems and IT services. Its higher education operation combined with Datatel to form Ellucian in 2012; the public sector operation later became Superion and joined CentralSquare.

- **Headquarters:** Malvern, United States
- **Products:** Banner, PowerCAMPUS, Advance, Luminis, DegreeWorks
- **Notable:** Completed SCT acquisition in February 2004 for approximately $590 million including certain outstanding options., HEPS segment reported $788 million revenue in 2005., Higher education operation sold for an aggregate $1.775 billion and combined with Datatel in 2012.

## Products & services

- **Banner** — Higher education administrative suite covering student records, finance, human resources and related institutional workflows.
- **PowerCAMPUS** — Administrative software for smaller and midsize higher education institutions, with campus-managed and hosted deployment options.
- **Advance** — Advancement and constituent management software for fundraising and alumni relationships.
- **Luminis** — Campus portal platform connecting institutional information and services.
- **DegreeWorks** — Degree auditing and academic planning software, continued under Ellucian.
- **PowerCAMPUS Hosting** — Hosted infrastructure, operating system, database and application administration, patching and support; announced October 2009.
- **Public sector administrative systems** — Specialised accounting, payroll, utility billing, land management, public safety and justice administration software.
- **Professional and managed IT services** — Implementation, integration, support, application management and outsourced IT services.

## Achievements

- Completed SCT acquisition in February 2004 for approximately $590 million including certain outstanding options.
- HEPS segment reported $788 million revenue in 2005.
- Higher education operation sold for an aggregate $1.775 billion and combined with Datatel in 2012.

## Latest updates

- **2012-03** — Ellucian name announced for the combined Datatel and SunGard Higher Education business.
- **2017-04** — Separate SunGard Public Sector business announced its Superion name after Vista acquisition in February 2017.
- **2018-09** — Superion joined the merger that formed CentralSquare Technologies.

## Links

- Website: http://www.sungardhe.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/sungard-higher-education-and-public-sector-systems-inc.

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