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Partnerships Strategic Solution

Strategic Partnerships & B2B Collaboration

Bridge the gap between academia and industry. Manage corporate relations, internships, and research projects within a single, integrated Salesforce ecosystem.

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Partnership Challenge

Is your corporate engagement fragmented across departments?

Lack of central partnership management leads to overlapping outreach, lost funding opportunities, and a disjointed institutional voice in the business world.

Joined-up Partner Engagement

Relational Silos

When multiple departments engage the same partner without coordination, you lose the ability to negotiate strategic, institution-wide agreements.

Live Impact Reporting

Manual Reporting

Without a real-time view of research and internship outcomes, proving institutional value to corporate sponsors becomes a resource-heavy burden.

Retained Relationship History

Continuity Loss

Staff turnover in external relations offices often leads to lost relationship history, stalling long-term partnership growth.

Partnerships Solution

A unified platform for corporate and community engagement.

We use Salesforce Education Cloud and Nonprofit Cloud to connect every institutional relationship: from student enrolment to alumni fundraising, in one unified source of truth.

360° Partner View

Corporate Relationship Management

A 360-degree view of partners, encompassing research, internships, careers, and philanthropy.

Full-cycle Grant Lifecycle

Grants & External Funding

End-to-end management of grant lifecycles with full transparency and compliance reporting.

24/7 Partner Access

Self-Service Partner Portals

Modern environments for external stakeholders to collaborate, share data, and engage with institutional resources.

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Professional Support & Managed Services

Already on Salesforce but limited by IT resources?

Partner and funder records often grow around whoever built them. Before modernising, it helps to map what each record feeds, so the history of each agreement is easier to keep.

Emilia Skulimowska Salesforce Consultant

Integrations with partner and funder systems are where unreviewed changes do real harm. A routine audit of them spares awkward conversations.

Martin Kozub Salesforce Developer

Partnership data spans placements, research and careers, each with its own rules. Someone who has worked in those settings knows where the boundaries sit.

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
  • Martin Pieńkowski

    Martin Pieńkowski

    Lead Education Cloud Architect

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    Institutional ArchitectureNewSIS MigrationData Strategy
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  • Adam Czeczuk

    Adam Czeczuk

    Head of Unified System Strategy

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    Strategic PlanningChange ManagementSystem HarmonisationNew
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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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  • Charles Sielkski

    Charles Sielkski

    Resilient Cloud Infrastructure Lead

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    Disaster RecoveryNewHigh AvailabilityInfrastructure Audit
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  • Emilia Skulimowska

    Emilia Skulimowska

    Institutional Data Governance Lead

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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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  • Martin Kozub

    Martin Kozub

    Educational Data Scientist

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    Machine LearningNewPredictive ModellingData Visualisation
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  • Olga Zwijacz

    Olga Zwijacz

    Infrastructure Lead | Senior Education Cloud Architect

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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

    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

Measuring the innovation velocity of institutional partnerships.

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 Corporate Engagements

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50 2,500
Active Corporate Engagements: 500
Commercial Revenue
£12.5M

Realised Commercial Revenue Potential through strategic scaling

Projected commercial revenue from executive education and corporate partnerships.

Operational Efficiency
+48%

Improvement in Grant Admin Efficiency across the lifecycle

Operational capacity regained through automated research grant administration.

Innovation Velocity
+32%

Uplift in Innovation Velocity and commercial reach

Modelled acceleration in technology transfer and knowledge exchange cycles.

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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

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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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