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PowerSchool: The Path to Dominate the K-12 Market
Like many IT stories in the 1980s and 1990s, the creation of PowerSchool initiated from one specific need: getting attendance tracking (as well as other information) to be sent through the school district’s network. From this initial class project, Greg Porter (founder of PowerSchool) worked on his project to build the first version of PowerSchool…
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Average Year of First Learning Management System Implementations
At ListEdTech, we like to drill down into our data to better understand historical market trends. As you may know, we have lots of data on learning management systems. In this post, we want to show when the average year of the first learning management system implementation was for each country. To make sense of…
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New Category in the Portal: Room Scheduling
Part of a trimestrial routine, room scheduling remains an essential step in providing education to thousands of individuals. University staff have to make sure that their system tracks the institution’s needs, the instructor’s needs and the learning equipment’s availability to optimally assign classrooms and laboratories. It is especially useful in peak periods such as exam…
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HigherEd Email Market: Not Just Gmail and Outlook
As North Americans, we often think that the email product category is pretty much stagnant: it’s either Microsoft or Google or if you prefer Outlook versus Gmail. This is true in North America, but the rest of the world has a different email software landscape. Before going into details, let’s add an important note: our…
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Catalog Management: A New Product Category
The once-a-year schedule of updating academic catalogs has been curbed as catalog management solutions have made an appearance in postsecondary institutions. Over the last few years, we received requests from institutions and edtech companies to start tracking these catalog management tools and we are pleased to provide you with some data on this product category.…
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Symplicity Expands in Canada
In early December 2021, we learned that Symplicity Corporation acquired Orbis Communications. While the acquirer is well-known for its student employability systems, the acquiree is Canada’s most trusted experiential learning solution. According to the press release, Symplicity wanted to expand its footprint in Canada. Orbis can call 100 institutions its clients. With Orbis’ solutions, connections…
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Moodle: The Open-Source LMS
The learning management system product category is one where many companies fight hard to gain more market shares. Moodle set itself apart from the beginning by deciding to offer its LMS for free. In 2022, not many products remain open-source. What makes Moodle a different player? The Long History of Moodle Moodle is not only…
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The Evolution of CRM in Education
CRM adoption in the higher education space is reaching a new record-high.
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Ellucian Acquires CampusLogic to Enhance its Portfolio
What can push a company renowned for its SIS and ERP solutions to purchase a company in the financial aid category? This is probably what people asked when they read about the most recent acquisition made by Ellucian. The main reason for such purchases is mainly linked to potential growth in the client base or…
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Getting Implementation Dates
Two questions we often receive are: How do you get your data? How accurate is your data for predicting trends and market shares? By now, our regular readers know that we acquire our data browsing public sources throughout the web. For question #2, the answer is more complex. This post gives you more insight knowledge…
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Some Data Context on “[SIS] Difficulties Frustrate Universities”
On January 11, we came across an excellent article written by Suzanne Smalley on Inside Higher Ed titled “Student Information System Difficulties Frustrate Universities” regarding the struggles universities face when it comes to implementing new student information systems. We would like to offer some data context on this article. We encourage you to read the…
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Microsoft: A Leading Global IT Solutions Provider for Education
Microsoft is well-known for everything and anything related to computers. Since its inception in April 1975, it has developed software, hardware, and personal electronics and offered services to multinational companies, local businesses, and individuals. However, a component of its core business that has often been put aside is its willingness to help the education world,…
