Preparing for the Sunset: How to Approach End-of-Life Deadlines for Legacy Solutions
In an ideal world, every college and university would have three to seven years to implement a new core modern system, starting with one to two years of planning and preparation. But in reality, institutions are not always afforded the luxury of setting their own timelines. The earlier an institution starts to prepare for modernization […]
Introducing the HCM Systems StarChart: The Definitive Guide for Institutions Seeking Their Best-Fit Solutions
Higher education institutions are considering how to better meet modern workforce needs as they strive to attract and retain excellent faculty and staff. In Tambellini Group’s daily work with higher education institutions, we are seeing that they increasingly prioritize human resources functions in their strategies for improving institutional effectiveness. To ensure their human resources teams […]
Educause 2023 Takeaways Part I: Generative AI & More Importantly, Everything Else
Educause’s annual conference in Chicago attracted more than 7,000 attendees and 300 vendors from far and wide across the country and globe. Given the vast spectrum of higher education leaders presenting on a broad array of topics, trying to succinctly summarize the breadth and depth of noteworthy issues covered at an event of this scope […]
Tambellini Finance Systems StarChart Delivered: The Definitive Guide for Institutions Seeking Their Best-Fit Technology Solutions
Competitive and economic strains facing higher education stretch across every function and department in the institution. Finance teams, however, are often the last to modernize their technology since CFOs are traditionally conservative in their spending in support of their own department. Given the current circumstances, finance leaders must be creative in how they streamline processes […]
Finding the “Perfect Last” Cloud ERP Investment for Your Institution
The overwhelming majority of US higher education institutions are approaching a critical crossroads with their ERP platforms as deadlines near for them to begin planning for replacing their legacy finance and HCM systems. Many are replacing these systems with SaaS products since their previous platform providers are likely to announce sunset dates for product […]
Oracle and Workday Implementation Partner Considerations
In higher education, some enterprise administrative vendors choose to handle their own implementations, such as Anthology, Ellucian, and Jenzabar. However, Oracle and Workday, in addition to providing implementation services for their products, also support a broad network of certified implementation partners. Thus, institutions that select Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications (Oracle Cloud) or Workday solutions must […]
Ellucian Live 2023: Ellucian Calls on Institutions to Join Them on Their SaaS Journey.
For the first time since 2019, thousands of participants met in person for the Ellucian Live conference in New Orleans. It was a memorable event with keynote speaker Malcolm Gladwell and a host of major announcements from Ellucian. Attendees filed into the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, where they heard about Ellucian’s unapologetic plan to […]
How CIOs Can Build Dynamic Duos with CFOs: An interview with Hampton Shive, Strategic Advisor
Higher education CIOs know that the long-term success of any institution-wide technology project depends on their effectiveness in building a broad coalition of support across a vast array of leaders and stakeholders with diverse needs and goals. Depending on the focus of any technology initiative, CIOs will understandably need to prioritize garnering buy-in from the […]
Why Strategic Alignment Matters More Than Budget Size
An Interview with Karen Boudreau-Shea, Vice President, Advisory Services The impact of financial strains is top of mind for higher education technology stakeholders: Respondents to Campus Technology’s 2022 Digital Transformation Survey cited “budget restrictions” as the top obstacle thwarting their progress toward digital transformation, and 41 percent of respondents to Educause’s 2021 Dx QuickPoll cited […]
The Technology ‘Taste Test’
Oral Roberts University (ORU) has one technological focus: to be the best campus for 21st-century students. Why? Because the student is worth it. Michael Mathews, CIO and Vice President of Global Learning and Innovation at ORU, joins the October episode of Tambellini Group’s Top of Mind podcast series to share how he made his dreams […]
