The #1 Low-Risk Route to Microsoft Digital Transformation in Higher Education

Working with Crimson, your university can realise the potential of your investment in Microsoft’s low-code/no-code platform to transform your institution. At a time when higher education faces ever greater challenges, Crimson helps you unlock new opportunities to deliver outstanding levels of student satisfaction and greater global market share.

Microsoft Higher Education Digital Transformation
Transforming great UK universities
From recruitment to alumni, build intelligent student experiences

Get ready to gain a 360-degree view of students. See how they interact with your events, marketing and student support – all on a single platform that covers the student lifecycle.

With Crimson, your university can leverage Microsoft’s platform to personalise content at every student touchpoint, starting with student attraction.

And a single self-service portal provides a superior student experience, from application right through to graduation.

Now’s the time to put an end to labour-intensive manual processes.

Working with Crimson you can automate and accelerate student enrolment, using artificial intelligence to scan and validate academic evidence and passports for international applications.

And while your team can personally handle more challenging student enquiries, let Crimson support you with building virtual assistant chatbots to automatically handle more common enquiries.

Higher Education Digital Transformation Chatbot
Higher Education Dashboard

Data is everywhere in and outside your university – let’s use it to supercharge your strategy.

Working with Crimson you can connect data and build dashboards to identify at-risk students, predict course profitability and identify new synergies between your institution and your applicants that will drive more personalised offers.

And Crimson’s data gurus can help you decipher hidden trends in HESA data, as well as pinpoint the top few actions that have the biggest swing on your NSS scores.

Here’s why institutions choose Crimson to drive digital transformation in higher education

Higher Education Transformation - Efficient Implementation

Efficient Implementation: Crimson’s methodology slashes implementation times by up to 80%, accelerating digital upgrades with minimal disruption.

Higher Education Transformation -Accelerators

Risk-Free Accelerators: Crimson provides bespoke software accelerators for higher education, free of cost or IP constraints, ensuring faster, safer project completion.

Higher Education Transformation - Empowerment

Empowerment: Crimson trains your university teams for self-sufficiency, enabling them to independently evolve their Microsoft platform without ongoing reliance.

Higher Education Transformation - Collaboration

Collaborative Approach: Crimson’s people-centric, ‘one team’ strategy effectively overcomes resistance to change, fostering a cooperative and innovative programme environment.


Book your Discovery Call to explore Microsoft proof of concept funding and workshops to help you build your business case.


Leverage the power of Microsoft

Crimson’s ready-made Higher Education solution accelerators and structured consulting workshops cut through previous project deadlock to help fast-track implementations. As a long-established Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in your sector, we help you use Microsoft tools as building blocks to digitally transform your university.

Crimson’s expertise shines through in everything that they do. Not only do they understand our business but they understand the technology so well. It’s a game-changer for us in terms of how we are able to manage incredibly important relationships with agents that they expect in a highly competitive environment.

Clare McKeague
Clare McKeague
Senior International Operations Manager, Newcastle University

Ready to talk about your higher education digital transformation project?