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Eric Stoller Joins ListEdTech as Chief Evangelist
ListEdTech is pleased to announce that Eric Stoller is joining the company as our Chief Evangelist. With 20 years of experience in higher education marketing, student success, and edtech, Eric is perfectly suited to help us scale as a leading edtech market research firm. “Eric’s knowledge and passion of the industry will help us better…
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Zendesk to Be Acquired
On Friday, June 24th, 2022, several websites specialized in financial news announced a huge acquisition: Zendesk agreed to be acquired by a consortium of private equity firms for an amount between 9.5 and 10.2 billion dollars, depending on the news source. In the education sector, Zendesk is the leader of the help desk product category…
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SIS Investments Doubled in 2021: Our Numbers
On June 14, 2022, at least three HigherEd-oriented websites (Inside HigherEd; Higher Ed Dive; EdScoop) published articles stating that investments in the SIS product group doubled in 2021. The authors referenced a report by the Tambellini Group. In this post, we want to add some data insights on SIS implementations available in our database. For…
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Financial Aid Systems Outside of the Expected Pairing
At ListedTech, we often drill down the data to find the most selected systems. Once in a while, we enjoy looking at our database differently. For this post, we explore the financial aid product category. Our previous posts on the topic (post 1, post 2) demonstrate that universities and colleges mostly use the financial aid component…
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Grant Report: Internal Grantmaking and Funding Decisions
In a few weeks, we will publish our third annual grant report. Each year, we strive to improve our data and knowledge of this product category. Following a conversation with one of the companies in the grantor subcategory (InfoReady), we came to the conclusion that our data and our report needed some tweaking. Here is…
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Work Placement Systems
Although considered a relatively new category in the educational IT world, the work placement systems rely on the old employment agency model. These solutions aim to build relationships between students and employers in a one-stop-shop environment to offer job opportunities. Definition of a Work Placement System We could define a work placement system as a…
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Class Acquires Collaborate: Two Visions Emerge
On May 19, 2022, Class and Anthology announced they have signed a definitive agreement for Class to acquire Anthology’s Blackboard Collaborate virtual classroom tool. While Class doubles down on a future with Zoom and Blackboard Collaborate as a virtual classroom tool, Anthology goes all-in on its Blackboard Ultra LMS. Collaborate and Class: The Numbers Before…
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E-Procurement: Moving B2B, B2C and B2G to the Internet
Before the Internet was even a thing, businesses and institutions established terms and procedures to sell, acquire and exchange goods and services. This process was named procurement. Thanks to significant advancements in technology and SaaS, public organizations and educational institutions nowadays use e-procurement solutions to manage their procurement processes. History of e-Procurement We have to…
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Domain names, what do they say about your HigherEd Institution?
Today, we are digging into a topic outside of our regular sandbox: Institution URLs and the type of information they can provide on an institution. To produce this post, we have gathered the data from the ListedTech database to sort the domains used by over 77,000 institutions across the globe. Our database of 77,000+ institutions…
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Neolth: Student Mental Health at the Forefront
Student mental health challenges have occurred for decades, but the recent pandemic brought the subject to the forefront. Universities, colleges and even school districts propose different support systems to ensure students achieve their program requirements. In addition to institutions, companies also develop tools and diverse solutions to help students and establishments overcome mental health challenges.…
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Business Intelligence Software for Higher Education
In order to improve both academic performance and business function, higher education providers have begun turning to business intelligence systems
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Proctor Systems: Striking the Right Balance
The use of online proctoring systems has likewise grown throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. For academic institutions and service providers, distance learning is not quite as simple as providing study aids, learning resources, and one-on-one support via digital channels.
