Cascade for education
Strategic Planning & Execution Software for Higher Education
Cascade is the strategy execution platform colleges and universities use to align faculties, track institutional KPIs, and report on progress from one source of truth.
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Trusted by Leading Education Institutions Worldwide
Why Your Institution
Needs Cascade
Higher education institutions are under constant pressure to
perform, adapt, and do more with less. But outdated processes
and fragmented strategies make it harder to drive real impact.
perform, adapt, and do more with less. But outdated processes
and fragmented strategies make it harder to drive real impact.
Fragmented Strategies
Faculties and departments operate in silos with their own systems, making collaboration and alignment difficult.
Lack of Visibility
& Clarity
& Clarity
Institutional goals exist, but turning them into measurable steps for faculties and departments is a challenge.
Limited Time
for Strategy
for Strategy
Faculty and administrators juggle teaching and operations, leaving little capacity to focus on strategy.
Inefficient
Reporting
Reporting
Multiple strategies, reporting structures, and timelines make it difficult for leadership to access timely insights.
Cascade brings everything into one platform—aligning priorities, tracking progress,and ensuring execution.
One strategy. One platform. One source of truth.
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Plan your way, and turn chaos into clarity.
Ditch scattered documents and spreadsheets. Build a structured, living strategy that adapts as priorities evolve.
Connect your entire institution to a shared strategy, align faculties, departments, and staff with clear objectives.
Shatter silos by linking academic, research, and operational priorities into a single, actionable plan.
Break down large-scale institutional goals into measurable actions that faculty and staff can execute.
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Ensure Execution Across Faculties & Departments
Give every team visibility into their role in delivering on the university’s strategic priorities with clear KPIs.
Ensure every initiative has a clear owner. Faculty, administrators, and teams always know what to prioritize.
Set smart, measurable goals that automatically update, so execution stays on track.
Track initiatives without chasing updates. AI pulls progress automatically from meetings, emails, and files, and drafts updates for teams.
Measure Progress & Report to Boards and Accreditors
Know what’s working and fix what isn’t. AI Insights surfaces where your strategy is drifting, so you're not hunting through dashboards.
Automate leadership, accreditation, and board reporting. AI-generated reports pull live data into board-ready reviews, no more manual updates.
Run faculty and admin meetings with live data, with real-time answers to questions as they come up, ensuring decisions are always informed.
Visualize risks and misalignment before they disrupt progress. AI flags risks and dependencies early, keeping execution on course.
The big shift is everyone structured, with information in one place.
The single biggest benefit that Cascade brought to the University of Sydney, was cohesion and structure to the myriad of strategic work and project management taking place.
Katy McEwen
Strategy Advisor
Cascade Advanced Integrations
Connect the tools that power your institution
Cascade connects to the business intelligence, data warehouse, and ERP systems your institution already runs on, including Power BI, Tableau, Snowflake, and SAP, so metrics flow into your strategy automatically instead of being re-keyed by hand. Faculty, administration, and leadership work from one live source of truth, which means reviews run on current data across every level.
Less chaos, more visibility, faster results.
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One system. Better decisions. Faster results.
FAQs
Questions? We have answers.
What's the best strategy software for higher education?
For institutions focused on executing their strategic plan, Cascade is one of the strongest options in higher education. It's a strategy execution platform that universities and colleges use to align faculties around one institutional strategy, track KPIs and initiatives in real time, and report to leadership and boards. What sets it apart is flexibility: faculties and departments can each plan in their own framework, whether KPIs, OKRs, or scorecards, and still roll up into a single institutional view, which is why it fits large and decentralized institutions that other tools struggle with. The honest caveat is that "best" depends on the job. If your priority is accreditation and learning-outcomes assessment rather than execution, purpose-built assessment tools like Watermark or Weave are worth looking at too.
Which universities and colleges use Cascade?
Cascade is used by universities and colleges on four continents, including the University of Sydney, the University of Melbourne, the University of Notre Dame, the University of Zürich, and the University of California, Irvine. Its customers range from large research universities to international institutions like the University of the Free State in South Africa, community college districts like San Bernardino, and specialized institutions like Gallaudet University, so the platform flexes across very different types of institution.
Does Cascade help with accreditation requirements?
Yes, on the reporting and evidence side. Institutions tag initiatives against accreditation requirements throughout their strategies and build a live record of what they're doing to meet them, which makes board reviews and accreditation submissions far less manual. For learning-outcomes assessment, curriculum mapping, and self-study authoring, institutions typically pair Cascade with a dedicated assessment tool. What Cascade handles is the strategy and reporting layer that sits above that work.
Is Cascade secure and compliant?
Yes! Cascade is SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified and GDPR compliant, with AES-256 encryption in transit and at rest. Single sign-on, role-based access control, and full audit logs come standard, and customer data is never used to train public AI models. Data residency is available in the US, EU, and Australia.