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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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System Lifespan: Are Some Product Categories Changing at a Faster Pace?
Following last week’s post on system lifespan for ERP and LMS systems, some followers and weekly readers asked me if the trend seen for these two systems is applicable for the other product categories. As you can see in the graph below, there is no “one size fits all” in the case of product lifespan. ... System Lifespan: Are Some Product Categories Changing at a Faster Pace? Read More
System Lifespan: HigherEd Institutions Are Keeping Their Systems Longer
Financial, HR, LMS, and SIS product lifespans are getting longer and longer.
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Cyber Attack Towards Blackbaud: Class Actions Have Been Filed
Over the course of May, June, and July 2020, Blackbaud suffered a ransomware cyber-attack. At this time, the hacker was able to access personal information in the company database: names, titles, gender, dates of birth, student numbers, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses as well as LinkedIn profile URLs. From what the company has said, the ... Cyber Attack Towards Blackbaud: Class Actions Have Been Filed Read More
Has Turnitin Found its Competition in the New Company Ouriginal?
When it comes to geographical penetration of Ouriginal and Turnitin, we can see that both companies are well implemented in their continent of origin.
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How COVID-19 Has Impacted Implementations of New Systems in HigherEd?
Back in January, I created our first historical implementation graph showing, amongst other information, the peak year for each of the systems we track. One takeaway was that institutions’ core systems (like HR, SIS, Financial Aid, Financial to name a few) are well spread across the twenty-year span since they need to be planned well in ... How COVID-19 Has Impacted Implementations of New Systems in HigherEd? Read More
Evolution of Cloud Hosting in Education
The evolution of cloud hosting as a percentage of total active implementations.
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