BEM Group
BEM Group: a model of rigour and consistency through multi-campus digitisation with KAIROS
Context & challenges
BEM Group quickly established itself as a major player in higher education across West and Central Africa, with an offering spanning several fields: business, law, tech, and secondary cycles.
Today, the KAIROS platform hosts every school in the BEM group:
• BEM DAKAR - BEM ABIDJAN - BEM BRAZZAVILLE - BEM CONAKRY
• BEM TECH DAKAR - BEM TECH ABIDJAN
• BEM SCHOOL OF LAW
• BEM INTÉGRAL
At a strategic moment of management change, the group carried out a full audit of the management solutions available on the market.
The objective: to identify a platform able to:
• deliver optimal productivity and impeccable financial rigour,
• unify the management of its various institutions,
• meet growing digitisation and automation needs.
That audit convinced and reassured the new management, which chose Kairos as the strategic solution for steering its activities.
Project objectives
- Centralise academic, financial and administrative management in a single system.
- Ensure comprehensive financial traceability (tuition fees, teacher payments).
- Digitise and automate processes (admissions, payments, teacher management).
- Offer a scalable solution to support the group’s international expansion.
Client testimonial
“Following a full audit, we chose Kairos as our strategic solution. It has allowed us to harmonise the management of our campuses, strengthen our financial rigour and support our expansion across Africa.”
The solution
- Core Kairos V4 modules: studies, teaching, finance.
- Online application: digitised admission from submission through to the creation of the student record.
- Compulsory online payment for tuition fees and services.
- Comprehensive financial reporting: real-time tracking of receipts, expenditure and balances.
- Teacher management: course scheduling → approval of time records → automatic generation of statements and payments.
- Digital Campus: stronger financial control and built-in document management (archiving of data and documents).
- BI-BEM flat files: data prepared for use in business intelligence tools.
- Multi-campus deployment: Dakar, Abidjan, Cameroon, Congo, Guinea Conakry.
Results & benefits
- Higher productivity: 100% use of the automated features (admissions, payments, teacher management).
- Financial reliability: complete traceability of flows, from the student’s payment through to the teacher’s payment.
- Successful standardisation: consistent adoption of Kairos across several African campuses.
- Strategic steering: precise financial reporting that lets management take informed decisions.
- A strategic choice validated by audit: Kairos chosen as a reliable, reassuring tool after a thorough comparative assessment.
- Support for international expansion, with a robust and scalable solution.
Why this matters for you
The BEM Group project shows how Kairos can become the backbone of an international academic network.
- It illustrates a management solution’s ability to unify and automate a multi-campus, multi-country environment while ensuring complete financial traceability. This experience demonstrates that, even after a strategic audit, Kairos remains a reliable benchmark for supporting growth and expansion.