Student Information Systems
Ellucian-D2L Expanded Partnership
The last few weeks were worthy of a Hollywood movie for D2L. First, they announced at the end of September 2021 that they will soon go public. Then, we learned in mid-October that their initial public offering (IPO) would value them at over US$1-billion. And, as the icing on the cake, Ellucian expanded its partnership ... Ellucian-D2L Expanded Partnership Read More
Does the Educause Exhibitor’s Floor Plan Reflect Market Trends in HigherEd IT?
Educause annual conference is around the corner. As its website mentions, “this event showcases the best thinking in higher education IT.” A few weeks back, I questioned myself about the Educause conference and its exhibitor floor plan. More precisely, I wondered if the booths were a good indicator of market trends? I decided to dig ... Does the Educause Exhibitor’s Floor Plan Reflect Market Trends in HigherEd IT? Read More
Anthology and Blackboard to Merge Into a Massive New Company
On September 13th, Anthology and Blackboard announced they will merge by the end of 2021. This transaction will “create the most comprehensive EdTech ecosystem across academic, administrative and student engagement applications”, mentioned the joint press release. This mega-company will serve more than 150 million users spread over 4,000 campuses in 90+ countries. A long-time learning ... Anthology and Blackboard to Merge Into a Massive New Company Read More
Distinguishing Product Upgrades from (New) Implementations
At LISTedTECH, we often talk about new implementations and their impact on company market share. We define new implementations as the initial implementation of one company’s product in a specific product category. When an institution selects, for example, Blackboard Ultra after it initially implemented Blackboard Learn, we don’t flag it as a new implementation; we ... Distinguishing Product Upgrades from (New) Implementations Read More
Which Products is Workday Student Replacing?
Since its inception in 2005, Workday steadily increased its market share in the human capital management product category. At first focusing on national and multinational companies like Aviva, CAE and Time Warner, Workday has now created the Student Solution. An increasing number of HigherEd institutions now consider replacing their student information systems with this solution. ... Which Products is Workday Student Replacing? Read More
Are Student Information Systems Being Replaced?
As you may have noticed, HigherEd evolves in a pendulum motion. At the university level, we can observe movements of centralization of services being depleted over time in favour of a decentralization favouring services in faculties and schools to then return to a central decision-making process a few years later. With IT systems being implemented ... Are Student Information Systems Being Replaced? Read More
Quottly – Helping Students Graduate on Time
Student graduation rate is a challenge that many universities and colleges face. We often see student success/retention systems being implemented to tackle this situation, but what about coming back to the basics and simply helping them find courses to finish their program? As part of our monthly series on edtech companies, this month, we showcase ... Quottly – Helping Students Graduate on Time Read More
Cloud Nine for Ellucian
Ellucian had their yearly conference Ellucian live 2021 last week. During the event, we saw several announcements about their cloud implementations. At LISTedTECH, we like to use this type of affirmations to help validate our data. We decided to use this occasion to share it. As a general rule, we are able to gather 80% ... Cloud Nine for Ellucian Read More
Historical SIS Market for HigherEd Institutions – November 2020 Update
I am happy to share that 23 new systems are now part of this graph.
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Evolution of the Higher Ed SIS Market Share, 2000 – 2020
The four SIS vendors with the greatest market share take up almost 80% of the total SIS market share, and this has been stable for the past five years.
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Evolution of Cloud Hosting in Education
The evolution of cloud hosting as a percentage of total active implementations.
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