iPaaS in Higher Education: An Nascent Market
What’s The Problem? Higher education often lags behind other industries in the adoption of new technology. There are multiple reasons for the lag: Technical investment is difficult to justify to institutional leaders without significant research. Time to implement new core technologies is limited, and delivering new functionality is preferred. Changing how we work is difficult […]
Going Fast Without Breaking Things: Balancing the “Need for Speed” with Intentional Digital Transformation Strategy
How does your institution measure intention? In the September installment of Tambellini Group’s Top of Mind podcast series, Sharon Pitt, CIO and Vice President of Information Technology at the University of Delaware (UD), joins the conversation to offer listeners a glimpse into the intentions behind UD’s growing digital transformation strategy. Sharon highlights UD’s innovative shared […]
Women in Tech: Kay Rhodes, CIO, Texas Tech University System
Leaders in technology are expected to look to the future. However, in this Women in Tech series episode, Kay Rhodes, reminds us that there is value and lessons to be learned when we appreciate the now. Not knowing what she wanted to be when she grew up, Kay learned to accept change and appreciate it. […]
Five Steps to Advancement CRM Selection Readiness
Embarking on a selection process for a modern advancement CRM can be a significant undertaking that requires as much time and planning as the process for other enterprise administrative selections such as finance, HCM, and student. Taking the time to execute a selection readiness effort can help ensure a smooth, data-driven process that ultimately leads […]
Community Discussion Webinar: Advancement CRM Selection Readiness
Over the past 18 months, there has been a significant increase in institutions making advancement CRM selections in an effort to replace legacy systems and support modern constituent requirements. These requirements include personalized communications, collaboration across gift officers, support for mobile and social, digital marketing, and more. Since advancement CRMs are complex systems and can […]
Tambellini Group Features Women in Tech Leaders
According to research from the American Association of University Women, representation is one of the key factors perpetuating the gender gaps in STEM fields. Progress is slow, and there are still fewer women in STEM roles despite female students outnumbering male students in higher education enrollment for the past decade. With this in mind, in […]
AWS Imagine Conference Is True to Its Name
AWS holds an annual Imagine conference for forward-thinking institutional customers to discuss their strategic AWS successes. The conference is unusual because there is limited conversation about product details. Instead, it focuses on how innovative educators can leverage AWS technology and partnership to change their institutions, the higher education industry, and the world beyond education. In […]
Five Trends on Leading LMS Vendor Roadmaps
Three leading learning management system (LMS) vendors hosted user conferences within two weeks of each other last month. Anthology (Blackboard Learn) and D2L (Brightspace) offered in-person and hybrid events, while Instructure (Canvas) maintained the single-day virtual format it introduced at the beginning of the pandemic. The tight timing across the three events allowed for an […]
Building Digital Trust on Campus
How does your institution define and approach digital trust? In the August installment of Tambellini Group’s Top of Mind podcast series, Dr. Donna Kidwell, CISO and digital trust officer at Arizona State University (ASU), joins the conversation to offer listeners a glimpse into what digital trust looks like on ASU’s campus. Outside of simply defining […]
Women in Tech: Becky Frieden, Sr Director, Enterprise Applications & Decision Support Systems, NYIT
Becky Frieden loves to leverage the intersection of technology and people to make good business decisions, and she finds that this theme consistently runs through her daily agendas. Whether bringing together the enterprise application and decision support teams or considering how technology will enable relatable learning in the future, Becky knows that this intersection is […]
