The Increasing Importance of AI in Scientific Research: A Reflection on the 2024 Physics and Chemistry Nobel Prizes
AI: A Central tool in Scientific Discovery Artificial intelligence (AI) is no longer a distant frontier for future technology but an important tool driving scientific discovery today. This year’s Nobel Prizes in Physics and Chemistry stand as powerful testaments to the growing influence of AI, not just as a tool but as an enabler of […]
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 […]
Higher Education Financial Resilience: Is Data Analytics the Key?
Revenue shortfalls and looming fiscal clouds are causing many colleges and universities to realize that financial resilience partly hinges on having insight into every aspect of the student journey. The financial instability among institutions has been precipitated by a confluence of issues, including enrollment declines that have not recovered post pandemic, the much-covered demographic cliff, […]
Workday Rising 2023: Workday Doubles Down on AI Transforming the Human Work Experience
Beginning September 26, we joined with 15,000 Workday customers, employees, partners, and prospects to learn more about Workday’s plans to enhance its product suite at the largest Workday Rising to date. In line with so many conferences in 2023, discussions and messaging around the role and use of artificial intelligence (AI) were top-of-mind throughout the […]
Oracle CloudWorld 2023 Highlights Rapid Innovation
During the 2023 Oracle CloudWorld Conference in Las Vegas, a spotlight was on Oracle Fusion Cloud Student for the estimated 300 higher education institutions that attended. The conference provided insights into Oracle’s product strategy across its infrastructure, applications, and data and analytics products and its progress on Oracle Student. It was also an opportunity to […]
3 Trends in Higher Education Student Success and Retention
As higher education institutions face increased enrollment and financial challenges and the looming enrollment cliff, there’s been a renewed and critical focus on what institutions can more directly control—student retention. In the last decade, institutions have been grappling with several student success challenges, including underutilized institutional resources due to lack of engagement, siloed processes across […]
Workday AI/ML Innovation Summit 2023: AI, ML, and Energy
With the topics of AI and ML being top of mind across all industries, it was timely that Workday focused its 2023 Innovation Summit for analysts on the topic, highlighting how the company is using AI and ML across its solution suite today and how it envisions the future of its use. Attendees had an […]
Workday Rising 2022
This year saw the return of the in-person Workday Rising event held in Orlando, Florida. Many new Workday innovations were revealed during the event, with arguably none more significant than Workday’s announcement of its intent to expand its partner ecosystem by leveraging Workday Extend enhancements to create, share, and productize Workday apps. The expansion of […]
What Is Workday’s Technology Strategy in 2022?
Workday recently held an event for industry analysts, the Workday Summit. The event brought together many Workday senior executives (including Aneel Bhusri, Co-Founder, Co-CEO, and Chairman, Pete Schlampp, Chief Strategy Officer (CSO)) for a deep set of discussions about the Workday strategy. The topics ranged from the core business to the Workday platform, architecture, and […]
How Higher Ed CIOs Can Leverage Cloud Service Providers for Strategic Gain
For some time, we have been talking about the trend of developing new commercial applications almost entirely in the cloud. Companies either host their older application code in the cloud or build cloud-native SaaS applications (or both in some cases). Higher education institutions have begun migrating to these new cloud applications, as have most industries, […]
