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Average Lifespan of IT Systems in Higher Education
How much time a system is kept before it’s due to be replaced? What is the average lifespan of IT systems in a said product category? Is it time for our institution to change its systems? How many systems does an institution change per year? You guessed it, this post will talk about implementation numbers ... Average Lifespan of IT Systems in Higher Education Read More
Turnitin Acquiring Ouriginal: what’s left on the market
Seven months after Urkund bought PlagScan to form Ouriginal, Turnitin is clear on its position: this new competition has to be part of the Turnitin family. Let’s see what the biggest plagiarism company to exist will look like. Client base Because Urkund was located in Sweden and Plagscan was based out of Germany, Ouriginal was ... Turnitin Acquiring Ouriginal: what’s left on the market Read More
K16 Solutions: How to Migrate any LMS to a New Platform
This company profile is part of our monthly feature on edtech companies. For this month, we selected a company that is not one of the big market leaders but rather a small company that simply impressed us. Anyone who was part of, or suffered through, an LMS data migration knows that this task, part of ... K16 Solutions: How to Migrate any LMS to a New Platform Read More
PowerSchool and EAB to Acquire Hobsons’ Products
On February 18, 2021, the edtech world learned that parts of Hobsons were about to be dismantled and sold to two companies. Naviance and Intersect products will soon be part of the PowerSchool portfolio, an acquisition marked at $320 million, while Starfish will be transferred to EAB for about $90 million. In one of our ... PowerSchool and EAB to Acquire Hobsons’ Products Read More
The UK LMS Market is Changing
Since the early 2000s, the learning management system market has fast evolved everywhere in the world. When looking at the historical LMS implementations in Canada, we notice that this product category has seen the dominance of a Canadian company (WebCT) for almost the first decade of the century. Despite having several LMS companies from the ... The UK LMS Market is Changing Read More
Why Adopt an Advanced Faculty Information System?
Acknowledgement of the importance of efficiency and transparency has spurred higher education providers than ever before to explore and adopt faculty information system (FIS) technology.
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CRM in Education: A Growing Priority
A digital CRM platform amalgamates everything using a centralized dashboard, speeding up and simplifying the process of storing, retrieving, and using the files and documents stored.
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White Space Opportunities in EdTech
With the new year, I wanted to highlight one of the most common requests we got in 2020. With many companies looking to find creative solutions to expand their client base, we have offered to several clients our version of a white space analysis. At its core, a company wants to grow. There are two ... White Space Opportunities in EdTech Read More
How Massive Open Online Courses Benefit the Business and the Workforce
Why aren’t employers leveraging the potential of their employees? Why is it that businesses are passing up the benefits of MOOC training and development opportunities?
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Conferencing Systems: Next Level Communication for Education
Digital conferencing systems are slowly but surely making their way into mainstream education. Nevertheless, evidence suggests that many educational institutions are reluctant to adopt the latest conferencing technology.
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Profile of the Ellucian Company
Ellucian company gets most of its 2,700 clients from public institutions that have less than 15,000 FTE students.
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