Akari vs Kuali Curriculum Management

Akari is curriculum management software for higher education institutions. It supports collaborative curriculum design, review, approvals, and publication, then maps teaching and assessment activities to learning outcomes and professional accreditation standards. The platform maintains curriculum versions across downstream systems serving different student cohorts. Governance features include automatic publication, CMA compliance support, evidence of pedagogy evolution, and organisational risk reduction. Integrated intelligence and visualisations support curriculum and operational management. Akari’s RESTful open APIs connect with student information systems, virtual learning environments, content management, CRM, timetabling, library systems, and data warehouses or BI tools; named integrations include SEAtS ONE, Tribal SITS, MortarCAPS, Amos, and DegreeReady. It runs in modern browsers without installation and is designed for mobile devices. Public-cloud and private-cloud deployment are available as a single-tenant service hosted in AWS. Akari states 99.5% standard uptime. The company was established in 2010 as a Cork, Ireland spin-out. Pricing is available on request.

Kuali Curriculum Management helps higher education institutions handle curriculum proposals, reviews, approvals, and academic changes. Institutions can configure forms for courses, programs, policies, and other changes, then route submissions to faculty, committees, and academic leaders according to their approval structures. The system tracks proposals, approvals, bottlenecks, and outstanding work. Reviewers can see prerequisites, corequisites, and program relationships when assessing a proposed change. Embedded AI can create or modify workflows, change forms or approval processes, refine proposal content, and identify stalled proposals through natural-language prompts. Approved curriculum can flow into Kuali Catalog, while approved course information can connect with Kuali Syllabus Management. Kuali describes its platform as API-first, with REST and GraphQL connections for campus systems. It says customer data is encrypted in transit and at rest, and access roles and permissions are configurable. The product is listed for web and API. It is paid, but no numeric price, free plan, or free trial is stated; institutions are invited to schedule a demo.