EXECUTIVE SUMMARY As Africa’s largest open distance learning institution and the first public institution in the world to offer dedicated distance learning, Unisa has been charting the path for distance learning institutions around the world for over 145 years. With a track record of enrolling over a third of South Africa’s vibrant and diverse student population- as part of the 400 000 students enrolled across the continent and the world, Unisa is living its vision of shaping futures beyond race, boarders and cultural divides. We have understood that Unisa aims to harness the power of new and emerging technologies to transform the organisation and realise the strategic objective of being a digitally enabled Open Distance e-Learning (ODeL) institution. On this basis, Unisa has embarked on a transformation journey to modernise the current version of Oracle EBS is 12.1.3 ERP that has been powering the university’s operations for over 10 years. By modernising the current environment, Unisa will be able to establish the foundational building blocks for the university’s strategic journey towards a digital future. The modernisation will allow for the university to address the inefficiencies caused by previous complex implementations, to create a more scalable, flexible and adaptable solution and ICT environment, and to take advantage of an opportunity to improve business user experience and drive adoption through effective change enablement . Additional benefits for Unisa will include being able to achieve cost effectiveness, a reduced technology risk profile, and greater end user satisfaction. While a transformation of this magnitude is a complex undertaking, Accenture understands the significance of the change and the impact it will have on Unisa’s ability to become a sustainable and high performing institution. We strongly believe that Accenture is uniquely positioned to partner with Unisa on the transformation of the Oracle ERP system to deliver on Unisa’s objectives from a people, process and technology perspective. With our unrivalled experience with Oracle ERP Cloud implementations across the globe, Accenture will be able to provide and-to-end transformation leveraging a set of differentiators that set us apart from our competitors. Copyright © 2020 Accenture. All rights reserved. 4