Arbor acquires Habitude, expanding its workflow and integration capabilities for MATs
Arbor, the UK’s most popular cloud Management Information Software (MIS) for schools, welcomes Habitude into its School Management Suite
Habitude is the process and work automation platform for MATs. It uniquely gives trust central teams an education-specific, drag-and-drop workflow builder to automate any manual process in their MAT
Arbor plans to bring Habitude functionality into its MIS, offering schools and trusts game-changing features like an Arbor workflow builder, forms and eSignatures
22nd January 2025: Arbor, the UK’s most popular cloud Management Information Software (MIS) for schools, has acquired Habitude.
Already used by 34 trusts and 290 schools, Habitude is the process and work automation platform for MATs. It uniquely gives trust central teams an education-specific, drag-and-drop workflow builder to automate any manual process in their organisation - from onboarding a new staff member, to managing in-year student admissions, approving expenses, pulling together an EHCP review, and more.
With Habitude coming in-house, Arbor can now offer MATs a complement to its leading MIS - helping trusts get control over all their processes so they can ensure compliance, and save staff huge amounts of time. Arbor and Habitude already integrate, so trusts using Arbor can deeply join up the processes that flow between their MIS and other systems.
James Weatherill, CEO, Arbor said: “Joining up and automating tasks that span different schools, tools and departments can be a nightmare for growing Trusts. I’m incredibly excited about the time saving potential Habitude has for Arbor’s 700+ MATs and I can’t wait to start working with the team to bring this functionality to Arbor’s MIS.”
Ed Butcher and Izzi Dorrian, Founders, Habitude said: "Workflow automation gives time back to busy Trusts and schools, allowing them to do more of the work that matters most. We have seen the difference this makes as hundreds of schools have used Habitude to automate millions of tasks over the past two years. We can't wait to start working with Arbor to bring this functionality to their 700+ MATs."
Chris Kenyon, CEO, The Key Group said: “The Key Group mission is to simplify school operations and improve decision making in every school in Britain. We are thrilled to be accelerating the adoption of such a powerful and innovative tool for trusts and are delighted that Habitude founders, Ed and Izzi, have decided to join us.”
In future, Arbor and Habitude plan to work together to embed Habitude functionality into Arbor’s School MIS and MAT MIS. This will give all schools and trusts using Arbor the game-changing ability to create and edit workflows in Arbor, connect Arbor to key tools like Google and Microsoft, send and build forms, and manage eSignatures and approvals.
Arbor MIS has now been chosen by over 8,000 schools and 700 trusts.
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About Arbor
Arbor is home to the UK’s most-popular MIS and school management software. Give your staff time and power back with an MIS that makes every day easier and more collaborative. Join-up your critical school operations with specialist, top-rated HR, Finance and timetabling tools. Make your school data meaningful and easy to action with market-leading benchmarking and reporting. Join the 8,000 schools and MATs using Arbor to transform the way they work.
About Habitude
Habitude is the process and work automation platform for MATs. It uniquely gives trust central teams an education-specific, drag-and-drop workflow builder to automate any manual process in your MAT - from onboarding a new staff member, to managing in-year student admissions, approving expenses, pulling together an EHCP review, and much more!
Founded in 2022, Habitude was born from a simple insight: as MATs grow, so does their complexity. Work can get lost, move slowly or become invisible amidst that noise.
With Habitude, MATs can capture any of the trust-wide processes which flow between different systems, people, and datasets, and turn them into workflows which run automatically - keeping everyday work flowing, and your central team focused on the important stuff.
