Alteryx Redefines Itself. Can Its Customers Keep Up?
Eighteen months into private ownership by Insight Partners and Clearlake, Alteryx came to Orlando last week with a story that is sharply different from the one the company has historically told. Instead of the identity centered in being the analytics workflow tool for analysts, Alteryx is pitching (and building for) being the business logic layer […]
OneStream Delivers on a Modern Agentic Architecture
The first wave of enterprise AI was generative models bolted onto applications. The second was narrow point-solution agents, capable but stranded from the rest of the stack. What’s arriving now is something else: context-aware, interoperable agentic systems grounded in the data, rules, and security models the underlying applications already hold. The products OneStream rolled out […]
WACUBO 2026: Transformational Leadership in Higher Education
Last week was my first WACUBO Annual Conference, but I felt right at home. The annual gathering of business officers from colleges and universities across the western US exemplified one of the things I’ve come to appreciate about higher ed conferences: how much of the value sits outside the program. Our community shows up willing […]
Ellucian Live 2026 in Denver: A Conference About Consolidation, Pressure, and Position
Ellucian Live 2026 in Denver signaled a company working to reinforce its position in a market that remains unsettled. What Did Ellucian Announce at Ellucian Live 2026? The messaging focused on modernization, AI, and platform simplification. Those themes are familiar, but the context has shifted. Institutions are making decisions under tighter budgets, constrained staffing, and […]
Workday Innovation Summit 2026 and Workday 4.0
Workday’s Innovation Summit this spring brought industry analysts and customer advisors together for two days focused on a single topic: what enterprise-grade agentic AI actually looks like, and what it will take to deliver it responsibly. One analyst called it “the most innovative Workday Innovation Summit yet.” The pace of product news, the directness of […]
Vendors: Prioritize Enterprise Planning
A few weeks ago, I argued that higher education’s expectations of technology vendors are too low. Most institutions, and most vendors serving them, are still having the wrong conversation. They stay focused on transactions and user experience: better HR workflows, cleaner financial reporting, faster close, fewer manual touches. But that is not enough to separate […]
Enterprise Planning—Take the Reins
Most institutions and their vendors are still framing technology conversations around transactions, analytics, and user experience: better HR, cleaner financial reporting, faster close, fewer manual touches. That work matters, but it is not the operating capability that will differentiate institutions in our current climate of volatility as a constant. Over the next five years, the […]
Bhusri Returns as CEO: Can Workday Accelerate Innovation Pace?
Workday reset its leadership model. On February 9, 2026, Workday announced that co-founder and executive chair Aneel Bhusri is returning as CEO, effective immediately, replacing Carl Eschenbach, who stepped down the same day. This is the third act in the following timeline: During this time, Aneel was still very present as the board chair with […]
[Webinar] Optimization-as-a-Service Implementation Models
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The technology market is shifting from project-based deployments (i.e., “Go Live & Goodbye”) to continuous adoption, as customers now require ongoing release management, process optimization, governance, and incremental innovation. Submit the form to watch Michael Anderson and Dave Kieffer explore how this shift impacts your institution’s organizational structure, governance, and staffing in technology implementation. Session […]
Making Platform Capabilities Central to Modernization Decisions
Modern cloud administrative solutions, including finance, HCM, and student, have delivered one clear set of outcomes: standardized, configurable processes where customers cannot customize the core application. That’s real progress, based on the critical weakness of legacy on-premises solutions —expensive customization and the need for massively disruptive upgrades. But it also created a very different data […]
