The future of SIMS is here
With 40 years of experience and a £50 million investment, we’re not just enhancing SIMS, we’re rebuilding it from the ground up. Thousands of schools already use SIMS Next Gen daily to streamline tasks, cut admin, and drive better outcomes. Explore our development roadmap to see what’s available now, and what’s coming next for your school or trust.
Explore our roadmaps
See how SIMS Next Gen is evolving for primaries, secondaries, and MATs—and what’s coming next.
Roadmap for primary schools
Discover how SIMS Next Gen is transforming the way primary schools manage the classroom and support every child. From flexible seating plans and real-time fire registers to smarter markbooks and behaviour dashboards, the roadmap shows how we’re streamlining teacher admin so more time is spent on learning.
Roadmap for secondary schools
See what’s next for secondary schools with the SIMS Next Gen roadmap. Built to handle the scale and complexity of larger settings, it introduces powerful new features for exams, course management, pastoral care, and staff planning.
Roadmap for MATs
As part of this innovation programme, we’re also developing a brand-new centralised solution for Multi-Academy Trusts: SIMS Group Hub. Group Hub brings all your school data, staff insights, and trust-wide operations into one central place—helping you drive consistency, reduce workload, and unlock better outcomes across every school in your care.
How we plan and prioritise
Our roadmaps are shaped by you. Through ongoing collaboration with schools, trusts, and school support units, we prioritise functionality that solves your biggest challenges—in the order that delivers the greatest impact.
What you’ll see in this roadmap are module-level releases. Alongside these, our dedicated teams work on user experience and workflow enhancements, delivering smaller updates every term. These updates ensure SIMS Next Gen continues to offer the most intuitive and effective MIS experience in the industry.
As with all agile development, this roadmap reflects our current plans. Some modules may launch in a different order as we test, refine, and respond to customer feedback.
Why schools are choosing SIMS Next Gen
- Best-in-class cloud innovation
- Seamless data sharing with key modules in SIMS7
- Intuitive user experience that works for everyone
- Market-leading cyber security and data protection
Why MATs are excited about SIMS Group Hub
- Central Access: Access all schools in your trust with one login, and view dashboards for attendance, demographics, and more
- Central Management: Set trust-wide policies and streamline settings across schools from one place
- Reporting and Analytics: Monitor your trust’s performance with a suite of configurable PowerBI dashboards
- Seamless integration: Easily connect with your HR systems, finance platforms, and learning tools
Ready to get started?
Find out more, request a demo, or speak to one of our experts to discover how the SIMS Next Gen programme can support your school or trust.