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PowerSchool acquires Schoology: the K-12 landscape is changing
On October 24, it was announced that PowerSchool signed an agreement to acquire Schoology. Let’s have a closer look at this soon-to-be purchase transaction to see how the companies will benefit from this acquisition. First, let’s outline the profiles of PowerSchool and Schoology. Founded in 1997, PowerSchool is known to offer a comprehensive K-12 student ... PowerSchool acquires Schoology: the K-12 landscape is changing Read More
Facial Recognition Software – Future EdTech
This technology not only helps in admitting only registered students on campus, it also provides surveillance of the students’ learning in the classroom.
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SIS Customer Migrations in the 2010s
How the SIS market evolved in the past decade, the transition between products.
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An Update on K-12 SIS Market Share
Last week, Wade Tyler Millward wrote an article on EdSurge, “Illuminate to Sunset Student Information System in 2021“, in which he presented one of our graphs to show the relative market share in the K-12 SIS market. His goal was to show the impact of such an action from Illuminate. According to our data, this ... An Update on K-12 SIS Market Share Read More
SIS Historical Market Share – North America
Today, we launch our SIS subscription service. To mark this milestone, we have created a chart that illustrates the Student Information Systems market share since 2000.
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Best of Breed versus Best of Suite
Bigger institutions are moving toward the ‘Best of Breed" approach while smaller institutions seem happy with a unified suite.
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Is open-source software in decline in HigherEd?
As Phil Hill mentioned in his post, there are a lot of discussions about the possible decline of open-source systems in HigherEd. Q: @Czernie Why are open source solutions on the decline and what can we do about this? #altc — ALT – alt.ac.uk (@A_L_T) September 4, 2019 Even if the discussion arose from a learning ... Is open-source software in decline in HigherEd? Read More
Historical SIS Market for HigherEd Institutions
We are happy to present the first version of this historical Student Information Systems graph.
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Hackers Target Banner ERP Vulnerability
Ellucian's Banner has a market share that is just under 25% in North America. For this reason, the news that came out this week about hackers who have been targeting a vulnerability in one of its modules is alarming.
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This Is What the K-12 SIS Market Looks Like
We currently have SIS data for over over 5,000 school districts that represent over 50,000,000 registered students in Canada and the USA.
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