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Cayuse to Acquire iMedRIS
Fall 2021 has seen another acquisition in the HigherEd IT systems. On November 16, Cayuse has announced its intention to acquire iMedRIS Data Corporation. If it passes all regulatory steps, Cayuse will consolidate its leading place in the grant management product category. Since Cayuse was bought out by Quad Partners on July 13, 2017, It…
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Retention Systems Used in Higher Education
When we break down the use of retention systems by enrollment size, we notice that the bigger they get, the most likely institutions are to use retention systems.
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How Moodle Overtook Blackboard
Early this week, Miami Dade College announced that Canvas will replace Blackboard as its main learning management system. For Blackboard, this is another important loss as MDC currently enrols more than 50,000 students. This is a continuation of Blackboard’s slow market decline. Looking at the historical North American market progression, we can see that Blackboard…
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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…
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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…
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SUNY to Switch to D2L: What is the Impact for the LMS Market
Last week, SUNY announced that it had selected D2L Brightspace as a common LMS throughout the entire university system. With more than 400,000 students enrolled at SUNY, switching to this system could have a ripple effect on the LMS market. Following the SUNY announcement, we wanted to look at the LMS new implementations over the…
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Company Profile: Element451
Any recruitment officer or admission officer knows the struggle to get a lead down the admission funnel. Over the years, IT companies have tried to offer a solution to overcome this challenge, but many failed. For this month’s company profile, we showcase Element451, a CRM that amalgamates in one place the different steps of this…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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Average Price Paid for a Learning Management System (Updated)
The price per student appears to be going up higher than the rate of inflation
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Product Implementation Peaks: the Mid-2021 Update
This post is an update on our Product Implementation Peaks post from January 2021. We can better predict if 2021 will see any spikes in the different product categories with half of the year behind us. Let’s dive in. A reminder of what the charts say about implementations: the graphs show the percentage of product…
