The Agentic AI Pivot: Workday Innovation Summit 2025
Workday, the now 20-year-old SaaS solutions provider, has a lot of change afoot. The company is making fast-paced changes in every area, from new leadership to continually refined business, AI, and expanding partner strategies focused on growth. Plus, it has a new industry organization. CEO Carl Eschenbach has brought in or promoted a group of […]
Financial Pressures in Higher Ed Are Growing—AI Can Help, So Why Isn’t It?
Higher education institutions are grappling with mounting financial pressures—rising operational costs, shifting enrollment patterns, and increasing competition. These challenges are exacerbated by recent executive orders, creating additional uncertainty around funding, regulatory compliance, and workforce dynamics. Yet, when we recently surveyed institutions, one trend stood out: the majority have not yet implemented AI-driven solutions to tackle […]
How Can Institutions Build Agility and Resilience with Data and AI in 2025?
As we enter a new year, I’ve been reflecting on what higher education institutions need to thrive amidst ongoing challenges like enrollment shifts, financial pressures, and evolving student expectations. Agility and resilience continue to be essential for navigating the complexities of higher education as Dave Kieffer explained in a recent post. This year, data management and […]
Workday Rising 2024: Workday Illuminate and Innovations to Watch
Workday Rising 2024 delivered a wealth of insights, showcasing the company’s commitment to product innovation with its AI-powered solutions branded as Workday Illuminate. The conference also highlighted the company’s continued development on Workday Student and its other core products. Meanwhile, Workday’s Salesforce partnership is opening new data management and analytics possibilities for Workday customers. Workday […]
AWS IMAGINE Conference 2024: Empowering People with AI
During the recent AWS IMAGINE conference for education, state, and local leaders, key figures in education and technology came together to discuss cloud computing’s transformative power in higher education. This blog post explores conference themes and insights, including how colleges and universities can leverage Amazon Web Services (AWS) technologies to enhance their academic missions, improve […]
Tambellini’s Future Campus Summit 2024: Prioritizing Human-Centered AI Approaches
The impacts and implications of artificial intelligence advancements continue to be top of mind for higher education leaders, but the vastness of the technology’s potential and associated challenges can feel overwhelming. To collectively level-set on best practices for higher education AI strategy, Tambellini Group held its second Future Campus™ Summit in collaboration with the University […]
Open-Source vs. Closed-Source AI Applications in Higher Education
Nearly all organizations across every industry, including higher education, are considering how to leverage artificial intelligence (AI) and to what extent. One common question, among many regarding AI, is: Should our institution adopt open-source or closed-source AI applications? In this blog post, we will explore the definitions, potential use cases, opportunities, challenges, and other considerations […]
Building an AI Innovation Ecosystem in Higher Education
Many colleges and universities are experimenting with artificial intelligence (AI) in some capacity. To fully harness AI’s potential, higher education institutions will need to think beyond individual use cases and build a robust AI innovation ecosystem. What is An AI Innovation Ecosystem? An AI innovation ecosystem is a holistic approach to AI integration in higher […]
The Human Element of AI—A Key Obstacle to Adoption
A primary obstacle to artificial intelligence (AI) adoption is not the availability of the technology but rather the human aspect of it. To realize AI’s potential, people need to understand, accept, trust, and embrace it as an extension of their work and processes. With the relative newness of the technology and its rate of product […]
Tambellini Group’s First Future Campus™ Summit: Making Mindset Shifts to Empower Innovation and Growth in Higher Education
There is a virtually unanimous consensus among higher education leaders that the magnitude and volume of external forces impacting their industry demand significant and swift shifts in how their institutions operate and evolve. But crucial questions remain unanswered: To help answer those questions, Tambellini Group held its first Future Campus™ Summit last week in California, […]
