High tech, higher purpose
Verified annual value redirected to Catholic classrooms
For too long, pricing and value in shared IT services have felt like a black box. We set out to change that.
To demonstrate the true financial impact of our collective network, CEnet conducted an independent Service Value Measurement exercise. We benchmarked our shared services model against four real-world disaggregated alternatives: direct SaaS procurement, local insourcing, managed service providers (MSPs) and standard enterprise software.
The result? By leveraging the collective buying scale of over 370,000 users, CEnet delivers significant benefits through direct, verified financial savings across our members and customers.
Grounded in Catholic Social Teaching, CEnet unites 800+ schools to redirect savings back to local learning environments
Subsidiarity
We honour the pastoral and operational authority of every diocese. CEnet provides national scale without imposing mandates. Systems and schools retain complete local control, only adopting the catalogue services that independently justify their value for their local community.
Human Dignity & Common Good
People are always more important than technology or commercial margins. By lowering technology costs, we help keep funding local, empowering school leaders and teachers to invest in meaningful learning environments to nurture the spiritual, moral, academic and social development of students.
Solidarity
Solidarity is the very foundation of CEnet - we exist because collaboration is fundamentally stronger than isolation. By bringing diocesan networks together into a unified services model, we break down administrative and departmental silos so that Catholic education can act as a connected national community.
Equity
We actively bridge the digital divide so that a small, remote primary school in a rural community can access the same enterprise technology, cybersecurity protections and network reliability as a large metropolitan hub. By pooling demand across our national network, we remove cost barriers to digital access for all school communities.
Discover what shared scale can deliver
Every Catholic school community has unique goals and priorities. Leave your details below, and a member of our team will be in touch to discuss how our services, shared scale and national network can support your schools.
