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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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System Lifespan: HigherEd Institutions Are Keeping Their Systems Longer
Financial, HR, LMS, and SIS product lifespans are getting longer and longer.
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Cyber Attack Towards Blackbaud: Class Actions Have Been Filed
Over the course of May, June, and July 2020, Blackbaud suffered a ransomware cyber-attack. At this time, the hacker was able to access personal information in the company database: names, titles, gender, dates of birth, student numbers, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses as well as LinkedIn profile URLs. From what the company has said, the…
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Has Turnitin Found its Competition in the New Company Ouriginal?
When it comes to geographical penetration of Ouriginal and Turnitin, we can see that both companies are well implemented in their continent of origin.
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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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Evolution of Cloud Hosting in Education
The evolution of cloud hosting as a percentage of total active implementations.
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Anthology Emerges as a New Company
With the news this week that “Anthology Emerges as New Company with Combination of Higher Education Technology Leaders Campus Management, Campus Labs, and iModules,” we decided to have a look at the new company profile. According to our calculations, Anthology is now the third-largest North American higher education company based on the number of unique institutional…
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Video Conferencing Systems Used in Higher Education
Market Distribution of Video Conferencing Systems
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The Most Common Financial Aid Systems Used by SIS
We have been ramping up our Financial Aid Systems (FinAid) data and noticed that, a few years ago, there was a big change in the alignment of the FinAid. Each company seemed to want a strong module to help solidify their suite of products. This is why the big SIS vendors went on a shopping…
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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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Most Common Pairings of Systems Used in School Districts
As mentioned two weeks ago, I thought it might be interesting to have a look at the most common pairings of systems used by K12 School Districts. To do so, I examined tech stacks defined as the set of technologies an institution has implemented and is using simultaneously. The graph below shows the most common…
