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Alumni Relations Strategic Solution

Alumni Relations & Career Advancement

Keep in touch with graduates over a working lifetime. We build relationship management systems that support fundraising, mentoring and professional success.

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Alumni Challenge

Does your relationship end at graduation?

Fragmented alumni data leads to lost opportunities for fundraising, mentoring, and the professional advocacy needed to sustain institutional prestige.

45% Annual Data Loss

Data Decay

Without automated mechanisms to track career progression, alumni databases quickly become obsolete and unactionable.

-30% Engagement Drop

Transactional Outreach

Communication focused solely on donation requests alienates alumni and fails to build genuine, long-term engagement.

80% Willing Mentors

Untapped Potential

Leaving alumni expertise unused in student mentoring holds back the career outcomes of the next generation.

Alumni Solution

A connected system for lifelong institutional value.

We use Salesforce Education Cloud to build meaningful connections that benefit both graduates and the institution throughout their entire lives.

+35% Donation Lift

Advancement & Philanthropy

Strategic management of donation campaigns and donor relationships based on affinity and capacity.

92% Insight Accuracy

Career Trajectory Tracking

Automated insights into alumni professional success and its impact on institutional rankings and reputation.

+50% Network Growth

Mentoring & Networking

A dedicated environment connecting seasoned graduates with current students to foster knowledge transfer and success.

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Professional Support & Managed Services

Already on Salesforce but limited by IT resources?

Alumni databases collect workarounds over time: old imports, fields that now mean different things. Tidying them up is what stops the next campaign misfiring.

Sebastian Marciniak Senior Salesforce Developer

A change to how alumni are segmented can alter who receives what without anyone noticing. Automated checks before release catch that before any message goes out.

Gregory Foit Salesforce Developer

Alumni work is relationship work, and the people maintaining the system should know it. A good architect asks who will be contacted, not just which field to change.

Kamil Habaj Salesforce Architect
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Consultation
-30% Tech Debt Reduction

Technical Debt Reduction

Modernise legacy without downtime.

100% CI/CD Compliance

Continuous Integration & Audits

Automated pipelines and quality gates.

24/7 Expert Support

Dedicated HE Architects

Experts on hand when you need them.

99.9% Data Integrity

Data Governance & AI Readiness

Preparing your data architecture for AI-driven insights.

Experts and Strategic Advisors

20+ Certified ArchitectsOfficial Salesforce PartnerEducation Competency Awarded by Salesforce
  • Rod Martinsmith

    Rod Martinsmith

    Business Development Manager

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    Enterprise SalesUK MarketAccount Strategy
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  • Martin Pieńkowski

    Martin Pieńkowski

    Lead Education Cloud Architect

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    Institutional ArchitectureNewSIS MigrationData Strategy
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  • Adam Pęczkowski

    Adam Pęczkowski

    Admissions Strategy Consultant

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    Lead ScoringNewInternational RecruitmentCRM Automation
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  • Alexandra Cieciura

    Alexandra Cieciura

    Education Cloud Architect

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    IntegrationsApex/LWCSecurity Architecture
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  • Bart Adamowicz

    Bart Adamowicz

    Senior Student Experience Strategist | Senior Education Cloud Architect

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    Institutional StrategyNewKPI FrameworksExecutive Advisory
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  • Catherine Wilk-Uljasz

    Catherine Wilk-Uljasz

    Transformation Change Management Lead

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    Change StrategyNewCultural AlignmentTraining Design
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  • Gregory Foit

    Gregory Foit

    Alumni Relations Architect

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    Philanthropy StrategyNewDonor JourneysAlumni Engagement
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  • Jacob Błoch

    Jacob Błoch

    Global Recruitment Strategist

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    International MarketsNewAgent PortalsYield Management
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  • Julia Kląskała

    Julia Kląskała

    Education Cloud Solution Lead

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    Solution DesignNewProduct StrategyFast Deployment
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  • Margaret Przewłocka

    Margaret Przewłocka

    Product Owner - Education

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    Product RoadmapNewInstitutional VisionInvestment Strategy
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  • Norbert Rzepa

    Norbert Rzepa

    Admissions Management Strategist

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    Admissions PolicyNewProcess OptimisationConversion Analysis
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  • Olga Zwijacz

    Olga Zwijacz

    Infrastructure Lead | Senior Education Cloud Architect

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    DevOpsNewInfrastructure DesignCloud Security
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Voice of Customer

  • SWPS University

    SWPS University

    “Understanding the organisation's business processes and goals makes Think Beyond a trustworthy partner in the implementation of complex Salesforce solutions.”

    Agata Wysocka SWPS University
    17,500 Students
    360° Candidate View
    6 Campuses
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    SWPS University

    Agata Wysocka

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  • SWPS University

    SWPS University

    “Incredible care for the client's needs, a wonderfully supportive implementation team full of willingness to help and patience. Thanks to their commitment and knowledge the process ran as smoothly as possible.”

    Kamila Dryjańska Head of Admissions, SWPS University
    17,500 Students
    50+ Contact Centre
    6 Campuses
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    SWPS University

    Kamila Dryjańska

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    Collegium Da Vinci

    “The best partner for introducing Salesforce to an organisation.”

    Sofiia Taran Project Manager, Collegium Da Vinci

    Collegium Da Vinci

    Sofiia Taran

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Institutional Impact

Evaluating the strategic yield of lifelong affinity.

Understanding the organisation's business processes and goals makes Think Beyond a trustworthy partner in the implementation of complex Salesforce solutions.

Incredible care for the client's needs, a wonderfully supportive implementation team full of willingness to help and patience. Thanks to their commitment and knowledge the process ran as smoothly as possible.

Agata Wysocka SWPS University
Kamila Dryjańska Head of Admissions, SWPS University

Active Alumni Database

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10,000 500,000
Active Alumni Database: 50,000
Participation Rate
2,500

Graduates actively participating in advancement cycles

Active engagement within the institutional philanthropic ecosystem.

Philanthropic Yield
£300.0k

Realised Philanthropic Yield for institutional development

Projected philanthropic donation volume from engaged alumni.

Volunteers & Mentors
750

Secured Human Capital reinvestment in student mentoring

Growth in alumni volunteering and strategic mentorship roles.

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Governance & Security

Institutional Integrity & Data Sovereignty.

Protecting institutional data through layered access control, encryption and documented governance.

99.9%Salesforce platform uptime

Institutional Cyber Sovereignty

Fortify your digital ecosystem against evolving systemic risks. Our architecture ensures continuous protection of institutional prestige.

GDPRUK & EU data protection

Integrity & Governance

We build the access controls, retention rules and audit records that evidence how student data is handled.

GDPR CompliantUK & EU data protection standards
Salesforce Consulting PartnerCertified partner practice
Salesforce CertifiedArchitect-level proficiency
Encryption in transit and at restStandard on the Salesforce platform
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Strategic Mission Centre

Coordinate your institutional strategy review.

Connecting enterprise teams with the people who deliver the work.

Rod Martinsmith Business Development Manager

20+ Experts

INSTITUTIONAL STRATEGY ARCHITECTS

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Strategic Mission Centre

Coordinate your institutional strategy review.

Martin Pieńkowski

Architecting resilient digital ecosystems for leading universities across the UK. Martin specialises in complex data migrations from legacy SIS into Salesforce, with the source system left in place, ensuring data integrity and institutional scalability.

Martin Pieńkowski Lead Education Cloud Architect

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Institutional Impact

Your customised institutional simulation.

Rod Martinsmith

Connecting enterprise teams with the people who deliver the work.

Rod Martinsmith Business Development Manager

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Case Study Success Story

SWPS University

SWPS University logo

Student recruitment and admissions platform powered by Salesforce

17,500 Students
360° Candidate View
6 Campuses

At a glance

Client

SWPS University

Goal

Improve the applicant journey and admissions team operations.

Scope

Candidate portal, application workflow, communications, and Salesforce data model.

The challenge: a complex applicant journey

Admissions is a long, multi-stage process. Applicants submit data, documents, payments and decisions, while the university needs full visibility into every application without overloading teams with repetitive manual work.

Manual handling

Repetitive application steps needed less manual work.

Applicant status

Applicants needed clear guidance on statuses and required actions.

Fragmented data

University teams needed one operational view of recruitment.

The solution: a digital admissions workflow

We designed a Salesforce solution that guides applicants through the admissions journey, supports self-service, and automates communications tied to application status.

Online portal

Applicants submit applications and complete candidate data in one place.

Automated communication

Email and SMS notify applicants about missing information, corrections and next steps.

360° view

Application data, documents and interactions are combined in a central view.

Admissions impact

Self-service

Applicants complete more of the journey without contacting admissions at every step.

Faster response

Teams identify unfinished applications and priority cases faster.

Measurable process

Admissions becomes more predictable and ready for further automation.

“Understanding the organisation's business processes and goals makes Think Beyond a trustworthy partner in the implementation of complex Salesforce solutions.”

Agata Wysocka SWPS University
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