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Data Centers? We don’t need no stinking data centers!
The article is Cross-posted at Moran Technology Consulting By: Charlie Moran, Sr. Partner & CEO, Moran Technology Consulting Justin Menard, CEO, LISTedTECH In a previous blog post, we discussed a multi-year downward trend of new Student Information System (SIS) implementations. Despite this downtrend, there are still many institutions upgrading and buying new SIS suites. In ... Data Centers? We don’t need no stinking data centers! Read More
Who implements ePortfolios?
An electronic portfolio (also called eportfolio, e-portfolio, digital portfolio, or online portfolio) is a collection of electronic documents assembled and managed by a user. At LISTedTECH, we just started to follow e-Portfolios. Today, we present you with some interesting data about this new group of systems. We divided institutions by enrollment size in order to create ... Who implements ePortfolios? Read More
Current Trends in the Higher Ed SIS Market 2010 – 2018
The article is Cross-posted at Moran Technology Consulting By: Charlie Moran, Sr. Partner & CEO, Moran Technology Consulting Justin Menard, CEO, LISTedTECH Key points: New Student Information System (SIS) implementations have been plummeting since 2011 Small to medium-sized institutions with less than 10,000 students are more likely than larger institutions to install a new product ... Current Trends in the Higher Ed SIS Market 2010 – 2018 Read More
Grants Systems Part 2
Our post on grant management systems from a few weeks ago generated a lot of interest. Software companies selling grant systems not only confirmed our findings but also told us that our estimated 19% of them being homegrown is probably too low a number. The reason cited is that we have been counting financial add-ons ... Grants Systems Part 2 Read More
1 in 5 Grant Management Systems are Homegrown
Why would an institution choose to build a homegrown system? And why would that answer be different for one specific product within the realm of higher education systems? Let’s delve into that conundrum for a moment. So a need is established within the institution which the latter wishes to address. It is deemed essential enough ... 1 in 5 Grant Management Systems are Homegrown Read More
LMS Coverage – Two-year anniversary!!!
We have been offering the LMS Subscription with the e-Literate team for almost two years. We initially started covering the North American market, expanded with Europe and Oceania markets and will soon release the Latin America market report. We are constantly expanding our coverage and we are proud of it. We hit a small milestone last week having accumulated the data of over ... LMS Coverage – Two-year anniversary!!! Read More
LMS Notifications
Twitter is a massive data source. In the past, we have looked, in our post Blackboard Down!, at student tweets saying that a particular LMS was down. In this post, we will look at students expressing feelings about all the LMS notification they receive. I general, students are mostly unhappy about the volume of notifications. But, ... LMS Notifications Read More
Higher Education ERP-SIS Implementation Companies
In our last post on ERP implementations times, we talked about how we have recently started to capture information on the implementation partners who help higher education institutions implement Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) or Student Information Systems (SIS). Not all companies use implementation partners. Many have their own implementation teams. We will look at companies ... Higher Education ERP-SIS Implementation Companies Read More
ERP / SIS Implementations Times in Higher Education
As you all know, we at LISTedTECH collect information on who uses what system in the higher education market. We also collect information on dates and we have recently started to capture information on the implementation partners who help higher education institutions (more on this in the next weeks). Some of the dates we try ... ERP / SIS Implementations Times in Higher Education Read More
Preliminary Data on K-12 LMS Market
Article is by Phil Hill and Cross-posted at e-Literate Over the past several months, we have worked with our partners at eLiterate as we have ramped up our efforts to collect data on LMS usage in the K-12 market in the United States. This is a massive effort as the market includes more than 130,000 ... Preliminary Data on K-12 LMS Market Read More
Six Degrees of Separation (HigherEd Systems Edition) and the CRMs
The graph below is… chaotic to say the least! What I was hoping for, initially, was to illustrate how systems are linked to each other. I started with six major product categories: emails, LMS, SIS, CRM, Financial, and HR. I wanted to see how products in these categories were linked to other products -i.e. if an ... Six Degrees of Separation (HigherEd Systems Edition) and the CRMs Read More
