Case Study: Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore achieves greater agility, scalability, and resilience with Software AG

How a 100-year-old university can be agile as a startup? It's possible!

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, a 100-year-old university serving more than 40,000 students, needed to modernize its core student system and support growing online demand while keeping downtime low. Working with Software AG and its Professional Services, the university aimed to move key applications from on-premises infrastructure to Microsoft Azure and operate more effectively in a hybrid environment.

Software AG helped implement a cloud-based, hybrid architecture using ApplinX, EntireX, and CONNX to modernize legacy applications and integrate data across Adabas, SQL Server, and Oracle systems. The result was faster scaling, stronger resilience, and better business continuity, with transaction processing time cut by 50%, system availability reaching 99.56%, and direct student services increasing from 70% to 90%.

Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

Giuliano Pozza

Chief Information Officer