Exploring Industry-Wide Cloud Advancements: A Review of AWS re:Invent 2023
On the heels of the Amazon Web Services (AWS) re:Invent 2023 conference, let’s examine the relevance and potential impact of current and emerging cloud computing technologies on the higher education sector. Key Announcements and Innovations The conference offered a forum for discussing the latest developments in cloud computing, presenting a range of updates that could […]
Resource Constraints? Student System Modernization Is Still Possible
Now, more than ever, institutions are aware of the potential shortcomings in aging student systems. While some institutions made moves to modernize before the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, the last few years have been focused on adjusting to new demands as the situation evolves. As higher education continues to recover from the pandemic impacts, […]
The Plumbing of IT: Implementing an Integration Strategy
You have a request from your business area to integrate your student information to a new system. You ask your development team to assess it, and they determine that they can clone a batch interface that already has four versions that are running for four other departments. It will take six weeks and require forty […]
Student Systems 2019 Compendium
As Tambellini concludes its 2020 Student Systems publication series, it is a good time to reflect on the past year and contemplate the future state of student systems. Tambellini’s Student Systems US Higher Education Market Trends and Leaders Report includes the following statistics regarding the student system market. There was an estimated 9 percent decrease […]
Overview of 2019 Student Selections
With the publication of Tambellini’s twelfth annual 2020 Student Systems US Higher Education Market Share, Trends, and Leaders Report, many institutions benefit from the in-depth view of the student market trends and updates on the 2019 selections across the higher education landscape. The following are a few highlights from the publication. Things to consider in […]
Insights for Community Colleges: Tambellini’s 2020 Finance and HCM Market Trends and Leaders Report
With the publication of Tambellini’s 2020 Financial Management and Human Capital Management Systems US Higher Education Market Share, Trends, and Leaders Report, many institutions can benefit from the in-depth view of the finance and HCM technology selections across the higher education landscape. However, community colleges can draw specific insights from the report’s information and help […]
On Campus: COVID-19 Challenges and On-premises vs Cloud Solutions
My former colleagues have readily reminded me that I’m not in the trenches anymore, but the instinctive mindset, when reacting to and managing crises, has not left me. The focus and intensity that comes with a crisis situation takes hold of people and organizations to ensure that the operations of their organizations can function. For […]
Cloudy Judgement
I’ll admit it: my judgement is cloudy. And while it is getting a little cloudier every day, I can clearly remember when that wasn’t the case. I’ve been in higher education IT long enough to recall a time when technology procurement decisions, be it for software or hardware, were made by talking to the relatively […]
Integrations—For CIOs, CFOs, and other CxOs
Integration—such a techy topic! Is it as simple as “those systems should talk to each other”? Of course not—but the ideas behind it are not as mystifying as they might seem. The concept and operations are as critical to your business as the complexities of internet marketing and social media. As enterprise-class systems move to […]
