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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…
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Our Institution Portal Is Now Live!
After several months of user experience tweaking and tons of human hours collecting more data, ListEdTech’s institution portal is now accessible. We are proud to launch this essential piece of our data sharing, and contrary to popular beliefs, you won’t need to double your research budget to gain access to this massive tool. Our institution…
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A Glimpse Of The Institution Portal – Implementation Time
Since August 2nd, we have given access to an early-release version of our institution portal to many institution representatives. This free-of-charge limited access shows the data we have on e-mail systems. When August 16th comes around, the portal will launch with 20 product categories. Today, we want to show you one of the graphs available…
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An Update On Our Definition Of (Tech) Peer Institution
With our institution portal to be launched soon, we continue to work on the tech peer model and have refined the grouping elements. The idea remains to technologically group the institutions instead of correlating them with sociodemographic data. After many trials and error to find the best combination, we concluded that the following eight IT…
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2U To Acquire The Nonprofit EdX For $800M
On June 29, the online education community was redefined. After several years of trying to compete against the leaders of this product category, MIT and Harvard have agreed to sell their nonprofit MOOC/OPM solution to 2U for 800M$. The consolidated company will reach over 50 million learners and offer more than 3,500 digital programs thanks…
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Blackstone And Vista Equity To Acquire Ellucian
In 2019, we mentioned in our newsletter that TPG Capital and Leonard Green were getting ready to sell Ellucian in a potential $5 billion-plus sale. After 18 months, on June 14, Blackstone and Vista Equity announced that they would soon acquire this major player in the higher education ERP industry. With this acquisition, Vista Equity…
