2026 Market Alert: Digital Science Acquires Jenni AI
Why Read This Research Digital Science’s acquisition of Jenni AI brings an AI research and writing assistant into a broader research technology portfolio. This Market Alert examines plans to integrate Jenni with Dimensions to improve citation verification, while distinguishing announced capabilities from those still on the roadmap. It explains what the ownership change means for […]
2026 Vendor Briefing: Jenni AI
Why Read This Research Jenni AI (recently acquired by Digital Science) combines manuscript drafting, research discovery, citation management, and pre-submission review in one AI-assisted research writing workspace. This Vendor Briefing examines its source-verification and AI-use disclosure features, potential value for faculty and graduate researchers, and overlap with existing campus tools. It also identifies considerations for […]
2026 Vendor Briefing: Watermark
Why Read This Research For institutions evaluating Watermark or reviewing existing investments, this briefing examines the capabilities, limitations, and potential risks of its institutional effectiveness portfolio. Learn how Watermark is expanding its AI and program analytics capabilities, which tools carry additional licensing costs, and how its solutions integrate with existing campus systems. The report also […]
2026 Market Alert: The Emergence of Decision Models
Why Read This Research Decision models are emerging as a faster, lower-cost way to classify, route, and score information without generating free-form text. This Market Alert compares new decision models and examines potential uses in higher education, from IT ticket routing to admissions and advising triage. It explains why fixed answers and confidence scores do […]
2026 Vendor Briefing: Savers App
Why Read This Research Savers App applies card-linked and online cashback offers to alumni, parent, student, and employee engagement, with the potential to generate institutional revenue. This briefing examines its co-branded and embedded deployment options, travel and corporate-card uses, fee and revenue-share structure, and adoption requirements. Higher education leaders can use this briefing to evaluate […]
2026 Vendor Briefing: Stellic Care and Registration
Why Read This Research Stellic combines advising, degree planning, and registration in a connected platform designed to reduce handoffs across the student journey. This Vendor Briefing examines Stellic Care and Stellic Registration, including advising workflows, referral routing, faculty review cycles, student information system integrations, direct registration, and course demand planning. It also evaluates key tradeoffs […]
StarChart™: 2026 Finance Systems
Why Read This Research For higher education institutions evaluating finance systems, this Tambellini StarChart™ compares the leading vendors in the market. Use this report to quickly see how each platform performs across key usability and innovation criteria. This proprietary visual tool draws on institutional interviews, surveys, vendor briefings, and Tambellini’s Education Institution Technology Profile Database®, […]
2026 Vendor Briefing: Porterhouse SLED — Workday Adaptive Planning Services for Higher Education
Why Read This Research This briefing examines Porterhouse SLED’s Workday Adaptive Planning implementation and optimization services for higher education. It explores Porterhouse SLED’s practitioner-led approach, planning and forecasting use cases, emerging Workday Decision Intelligence capabilities, and more. Higher education finance and IT leaders can use these insights to evaluate model fit, data readiness, and key […]
One Learner, One Record: Unifying the Institutional Record Across Credit and Noncredit Learning
Why Read This Research Higher education institutions have long managed credit and noncredit learning in separate systems. That approach is becoming harder to sustain as short-form credentials grow, Workforce Pell requires eligible programs to connect to credit-bearing pathways, and new accountability requirements increase demands for program-level data. This Vision Paper explains what a unified learner […]
2026 Trend Analysis: The Evolution of Synthetic Personas
Why Read This Research Synthetic personas are evolving from static descriptions into interactive simulations that can answer questions, navigate digital environments, and model user behavior. This Trend Analysis explains where synthetic participants may create near-term value for higher education, especially in pretesting and iteration, and where the evidence remains weak. Use it to compare simulation […]
