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HR Systems in HigherEd: The Shift to Cloud and the Battle for Market Share

Managing people effectively is at the heart of every higher education institution—whether it’s hiring top faculty, tracking payroll, or ensuring compliance with evolving regulations. But as colleges and universities grow in size and complexity, so do their HR needs. We observe the following trends in the HigherEd HR market: With shifting demands, the HigherEd HR ... Read More

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Market Niches Can Change… But They Usually Don’t

We often believe that companies enter a product category and their client base remains the same over the years. Even if this is true for some companies, others see diversification in their client profiles. In the past, we have produced an analysis of SIS product niches. Today, we expand this analysis of market niches to ... Read More

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Workday: Focus on Student Success

Workday entered the education world about a decade ago. The offering of its HR Management and Financial Management solutions went without saying, but Workday positioned itself in the education world when it launched Workday Student in 2016. Ex-PeopleSoft Employees Founded a New Company Workday was founded in March 2005 following the acquisition of PeopleSoft by Oracle. ... Read More

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HRMS, HRIS or HCM: It’s All About Human Resources!

Called Human Resources Management System (HRMS), Human Resources Information System (HRIS) or Human Capital Management (HCM), human resources systems have a common function: managing human resources, business processes and employee data for organizations. The educational world makes no exceptions as school districts, colleges and universities require these solutions to ensure the proper functioning of their ... Read More

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Best of Breed versus Best of Suite: The Rise of Decoupled Ecosystems

Back in 2019, I dove into the ongoing debate between Best of Breed and Best of Suite strategies for higher education’s core administrative systems. At the time, the data showed a clear preference: only 14% of colleges and universities in the United States and Canada were managing multiple vendors for their Student Information System (SIS) ... Read More

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JAM 2026: A Different Kind of ERP Conference

Last week, I attended my first Jenzabar Annual Meeting (JAM) in Dallas, Texas. As a relatively new partner to Jenzabar, we saw this event as a chance to better understand the company, its clients, and the direction of the platform. After all, every conference has its own personality, some feel like sales rallies, while others ... Read More

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The AI Ecosystem Advantage in Higher Education

One of the more interesting themes emerging in AI discussions is the idea that the real transformation is not about adding AI to existing workflows. It is about redesigning how organizations operate from the ground up. In a recent article, Julie Linn Teigland argues that organizations often treat AI as a “bolt-on” tool for incremental ... Read More