Corporate Vision I am proud that, as a Student Information System (SIS) provider, Thesis SM is the trusted partner to a diverse range of higher education clients in the UK from small specialist institutions including the Royal College of Music to large, complex institutions such as Manchester Metropolitan University. We’re motivated every day to make the student and staff experience efficient and empowering, and we’ve dedicated ourselves to streamlining mission-critical student management processes. We have done this so that institutions can focus on what truly matters: student experience, staff time and academic excellence. To achieve this, our cloud-native SIS covers the entire student lifecycle, from application through to award. Hosted on Microsoft Azure, our SaaS solution was developed in close collaboration with the UK and Canadian higher education sectors, ensuring that it meets both common institutional demands and regionspecific requirements. Our feature rich solution covers all the core functionality expected in a SIS, including admissions, curriculum, registry, assessments, progression and billing. Our team has deep roots in the UK sector, with many of us, myself included, having previously worked within higher education institutions. This means our team is shaped by practical insight and a shared commitment to institutional success. We are industry experts who have a deep understanding of the sector pain points, especially as we have experienced many of them first-hand. This fuels our focus every day as we strive to create value from our expertise and deliver a solution that improves the student experience while reducing the burden on staff. As with any spin-out from a larger company, it can sometimes be a challenge to communicate that our modern, flagship product is still underpinned by a significant depth of experience and institutional knowledge to the market. We want to ensure future customers understand that Thesis SM is not a startup; while our name and brand are relatively new, our history ensures that our expertise and track record are extensive. Our SIS product reflects this: built on the collective knowledge, lessons learned, and experience of our team, without the legacy baggage that can limit innovation. Over the next five years, we plan to further innovate the student experience by deepening our collaborations with partners across the sector. We will do this to deliver an even smarter, configurable, more intuitive SIS built for trust and ready to scale and evolve ing to reflect changing institutional needs. We recognise that many institutions live with legacy constraints created from past requirements that no longer reflect the modern sector landscape. These may be functional constraints but equally how the overall service reflects the technical and financial challenges currently facing UK higher education. We at Thesis are committed to working with institutions to ensure that our SIS does not stand still and nor does our organisation. We get up every morning and consider what we can do better. To realise this vision, we have built a product roadmap centred on four strategic pillars, guiding our approach to digital transformation across the sector. Awarded in Corporate Vision’s Technology Excellence Awards 2026 not only for its innovative product but for its team’s deep rooted experience, Thesis SM is built for trust and ready to scale . Its pioneering cloud-based SIS was designed to streamline and enhance core institutional operations for the UK, Irish, and Canadian education sectors, and it’s a pleasure to hear more from CEO Louise Thorpe below. Thesis SM: Where Ongoing Success Builds Momentum Our four pillars are: enhancing self-service to improve student experience and make effective use of staff time; empowering end users through automation, no-code workflow tools, and reduced reliance on IT; optimising regulatory and statutory processes as embedded core functionality; and streamlining integration with other campus systems to enable cohesive, data-driven operations. And yes, we do all know them off by heart. Across all four, our goal is to deliver technology that is configurable, intuitive, and built around the real-world needs of higher education institutions, today and in the years ahead. We will continue investing in secure, scalable infrastructure and growing our team’s expertise, so we can deliver consistent value and support to every institution we serve. Our strategic pillars recognise that mere compliance is not enough and that it is imperative for a SIS provider to optimise regulatory and statutory processes, ensuring institutions remain compliant and with minimal operational overhead. We operate as the backbone of an institution’s edtech ecosystem, and we strive to deliver streamlined integrations with other campus systems to enable a cohesive experience for users and support data-driven decision-making across the student lifecycle. We aim to deepen our presence across the markets we serve, with a clear commitment to being the leading local SIS provider for higher education in the UK, Ireland, and Canada. Alongside this, we are focused on strengthening our long-term engagement with the higher education community, A core part of our growth strategy is to collaborate closely with our surrounding communities, users, partners, and thought leaders, and translating their feedback into meaningful product improvements that solve real challenges in the student lifecycle. It is this unwavering dedication to continuous improvement and innovation that has earned Thesis SM recognition as the UK’s Best University Student Management Software 2026. Contact: Louise Thorpe Company: Thesis SM (Thesis Student Management) Web Address: www.thesis.sm
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