SOLUTIONS / HIGHER EDUCATION

Less admin.
More learning.

The KnowledgeLake platform helps universities and school districts automate complex, paper-heavy administrative processes — freeing educators, administrators, and staff to focus on what matters: delivering quality education.

ADMISSIONS QUEUE
ADM-2341 Transcript · intl. eval · GPA mapped SCORED
ADM-2342 Financial aid packet · residency proof CLEARED
ADM-2343 Course equivalency · committee review REVIEW
ADM-2344 Admissions packet · awaiting recommender PEND
Packets / wk3,420
Decision SLA96%
FERPAAudited
ILLUSTRATIVE Registrar office · stacks of evaluated transcripts, decision letters in progress
THE OPERATIONAL REALITY

Too much time on process.
Not enough on people.

Universities and school districts run on paper. Admissions packets, student records, HR files, financial aid documents, accounts payable — every department has its own stack of documents flowing through processes that still require too many people to touch them too many times.

Staff spend their day rekeying data between systems, hunting for documents across disparate platforms, and manually routing files that should move themselves. Five proprietary document management vendors. None of them talking to each other. None of them giving you access to your own data without charging you for it.

The KnowledgeLake platform connects to your existing SharePoint environment and integrates directly with your business systems — Workday, PeopleSoft, and others — so documents are captured, classified, and routed automatically, and every piece of data flows to the right application without manual intervention.

WHAT KNOWLEDGELAKE DOES

What the KnowledgeLake platform
does for higher education.

DOCUMENT FLOWS

Streamlined across every department

Admissions, student records, HR, accounting — document flows automated across the institution without adding headcount.

DATA ENTRY

Eliminate redundant rekeying

KnowledgeLake enters data into the right applications automatically. Staff stop copying the same field into three different systems.

ACCESS

Instant document retrieval

Any staff member finds any document in seconds from within the application they already use. Full-text search, custom filters, tiered access.

MIGRATION

Legacy ECM migration done right

Move from proprietary systems to SharePoint Online or Azure without disruption, without overpaying, and without losing access to your own data.

INTEGRATION

Workday, PeopleSoft, and beyond

KnowledgeLake builds the integration layer between your document platform and your core business systems — Workday, PeopleSoft, Azure Content Repository.

CONFIGURATION

Minimal IT lift to deploy and expand

Capture documents, automate workflows, and add departments without significant IT intervention. Configured by the teams that use it.

DOCUMENT TYPES & VOLUMES

Dealing with complex documents.
We have you covered.

Document type Operational context Volume range
Transcripts Domestic, international, online, military thousands / cycle
Admissions packets Application essays, recommendations, attachments tens of thousands / cycle
Financial aid packets FAFSA supporting documents, tax records thousands / cycle
HR & employee records Faculty and staff onboarding, benefits, personnel continuous
Student records Registrar files, enrollment, grades, transcripts university-wide
Accounts payable Invoices, purchase orders, vendor documents thousands / month
THE HIDDEN 80%

Where inefficiencies and bottlenecks occur.
The overlooked challenges to automation.

H01
Redundant data entry
The same field keyed into three different systems. KnowledgeLake enters data into the right applications automatically, once.
H02
Legacy ECM migration
Proprietary systems that charge you to access your own data. KnowledgeLake migrates documents from legacy platforms to Azure or SharePoint — straightforwardly and cost-effectively.
H03
Cross-system integration
Workday, PeopleSoft, SharePoint, Azure Content Repository — KnowledgeLake builds the API layer that connects them without a custom dev project.
H04
Document access control
Tiered access settings per document type, department, and role. Everyone works from the same set of documents. No one sees what they shouldn't.
H05
HR records automation
Employee onboarding, job changes, offboarding — document workflows that used to take 2–4 hours per event, automated.
H06
Deadline SLA tracking
Admissions cycles, financial aid windows, enrollment deadlines. Documents at SLA risk surfaced before the deadline, not after.
CLIENT SUCCESS STORY

Washington University in St. Louis.

Washington University in St. Louis — one of the premier research universities in the country — came to KnowledgeLake with a challenge familiar to large institutions: five proprietary document management vendors, none of them interoperable, all of them charging the university to access its own data. The initiative was to consolidate onto a single cloud-native platform and migrate legacy administrative systems to Azure. Working with KnowledgeLake, WUSTL migrated 14 departments from on-premises Capture Service Pro to the modern KnowledgeLake platform. Phase 2 of the project covers the migration of approximately 14 million documents to Azure, with KnowledgeLake building the integration layer between the platform, SharePoint Online, Workday, and the university's Azure Content Repository — including an AP system API that communicates directly with Workday. The 27-year partnership has expanded with each major transformation the university undertakes. When WUSTL moved to Workday, KnowledgeLake was there. When they migrated PeopleSoft documents to the cloud, no other vendor could match the straightforwardness or the cost.

14
departments migrated from on-premises to cloud-native platform
14M
documents being migrated to Azure
27 yrs
technology partnership — through Workday, PeopleSoft, and beyond
5 → 1
proprietary document vendors consolidated to one platform
"Besides the fact that KnowledgeLake's products are unmatched by their competitors in terms of ease of use, integration with known products and cost, they're a great company to work with, and we can trust them."
DH
Denise Hirschbeck
Assistant Vice Chancellor for Information Services and Technology, Washington University in St. Louis
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