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Populi: Designed for Smaller Institutions
Populi is fundamentally different in its business approach. Instead of proposing one solution in one product category and building their company from there, the company chose to target one specific client type: smaller colleges. And from there, they offered them an all-in-one software suite. At first, we had doubts about this company. How can they…
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Ellucian Acquires CampusLogic to Enhance its Portfolio
What can push a company renowned for its SIS and ERP solutions to purchase a company in the financial aid category? This is probably what people asked when they read about the most recent acquisition made by Ellucian. The main reason for such purchases is mainly linked to potential growth in the client base or…
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Blackbaud: More than Raiser’s Edge
Known for its flagship product Raiser’s Edge for almost four decades, Blackbaud focuses its business around nonprofit organizations and educational institutions. This long-time reference to this submarket might change soon with the recent purchase of Everfi. Does this acquisition solidify its foundation in the nonprofit world, or is Blackbaud attempting a breakthrough on the corporate…
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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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Are Student Information Systems Being Replaced?
As you may have noticed, HigherEd evolves in a pendulum motion. At the university level, we can observe movements of centralization of services being depleted over time in favour of a decentralization favouring services in faculties and schools to then return to a central decision-making process a few years later. With IT systems being implemented…
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EDTECH MARKET INTELLIGENCE ACROSS CORE PRODUCT CATEGORIES Track real-world software implementations to optimize your strategy. We aggregate data from thousands of public sources to map the global education ecosystem. ✴ Learning Management Systems Monitor LMS market share and emerging classroom technology deployments across HigherEd and K-12. ✴ Student Information Systems Track SIS database migrations, system…
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Cloud Nine for Ellucian
Ellucian had their yearly conference Ellucian live 2021 last week. During the event, we saw several announcements about their cloud implementations. At ListEdTech, we like to use this type of affirmations to help validate our data. We decided to use this occasion to share it. As a general rule, we are able to gather 80%…
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Anthology: a Collection of 14 Different Products Under Three HigherEd IT Companies
July 7, 2020, marked a turning point in the HigherEd IT sphere. On that day, Veritas Capital (“Veritas”) and Leeds Equity Partners (“Leeds Equity”), two private investment firms, announced the joining of education technology companies: Campus Management, Campus Labs, and iModules, to create one of the biggest consortiums in HigherEd IT. And as of November…
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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.…
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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…
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Preview of our Data
The two most common questions we get are ‘How Do You Get Your Data?’ and ‘How Much Data Do You Have?’. The answer to the first question can be found after the graph. To help answer the second question, we have created a new dashboard that contains most of the product categories in our database.…
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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.
