2026 Market Alert: OpenAI is Retiring Custom GPTs and Expanding Plugins
Why Read This Research OpenAI is retiring custom GPTs, while expanding plugins with capabilities that can carry forward parts of the workflows institutions built in GPTs. This Market Alert explains what does and does not migrate, including instructions, reference files, conversations, model selection, sharing, and custom actions. It also outlines how institutions should inventory critical […]
2026 Vision Paper: The Re-Engineered Implementation
Why Read This Research ERP and SIS implementations are being re-engineered as AI automates data conversion, testing, configuration, integration code, and other labor-intensive work. This Vision Paper examines how implementation delivery, staffing, pricing, and risk will change over the next two years and what institutions should do now to prepare. Learn how to assess readiness, […]
StarChart™: 2026 Identity and Access Management
Why Read This Research For higher education institutions evaluating identity and access management solutions, 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 […]
2026 Vendor Briefing: BoodleBox
Why Read This Research As higher education moves from AI experimentation to broader adoption, leaders need to determine where instructional AI fits within the technology ecosystem. This Vendor Briefing examines BoodleBox’s multi-model AI platform, including its Classroom environment, assignment controls, custom bots, collaboration tools, and institutional pricing. Explore how BoodleBox may complement existing AI and […]
2026 Oracle, Workday, and Ellucian Implementation Partners Comparison
Why Read This Research Choosing the right implementation partner can affect cost, timeline, institutional capability, risk, and long-term value. This infographic compares 13 firms that support Oracle, Workday, or Ellucian implementations against 10 criteria, including methodology, higher education experience, data conversion and integration, change management, pricing, governance, analytics, security, and market position. Use it as […]
2026 Trend Analysis: Student Ecosystem
Why Read This Research Student modernization is becoming a portfolio and sequencing decision, not simply a student system replacement. This Trend Analysis examines five shifts shaping the student ecosystem, including ecosystem-first modernization, continued investment in third-party solutions, broader student system selection scope, separation of the student experience from the student system, and changing boundaries between […]
2026 Vendor Briefing: eEvolution Implementation Partner
Why Read This Research ERP modernization can stall when institutions underestimate the complexity of legacy data conversion. This Vendor Briefing examines eEvolution and its approach to ERP implementation, data migration, cleansing, validation, integration, and process mapping. Higher education leaders can assess how the firm can support ERP transformation, how its healthcare data experience translates to […]
2026 Market Alert: Demystifying Ellucian Student
Why Read This Research Ellucian Student reorganizes familiar products into capabilities and tiers. This Market Alert shows how familiar Ellucian products map to new capability names and where those capabilities sit across the Essentials and Signature tiers, Advantage modules, and the Ellucian Platform. It explains what the change means for Banner, Colleague, and Anthology Student […]
2026 Vendor Briefing: Ellucian US Implementation Partner Strategy
Why Read This Research Ellucian is shifting more SaaS implementation work to partners as it scales delivery toward a 2028 target. This briefing explains how the strategy works, why SIG and Ferrilli lead end-to-end delivery in North America, and how badging and delivery assurance are intended to protect quality. Higher education leaders can use it […]
2026 Vendor Briefing: 12twenty
Why Read This Research This vendor briefing gives higher education leaders an independent assessment of 12twenty’s strategy to bring career services, outcomes, employer relations, experiential learning, and alumni engagement into one platform. It examines where the platform can reduce technology fragmentation, where functionality may lag specialized solutions, and how integration depth, employer relations, AI, implementation, […]
