Slate Festival Highlights

In May, I attended several of the Slate Festival webinars, which featured client testimonials on a myriad of topics ranging from integrating with Slate, creating innovative marketing campaigns, using technology to reduce summer melt, leveraging financial aid insights in recruitment and admissions, and more. At the end of the series, what struck me was the […]
The Evolution of Noncredit Course Management

While nondegree programs have been in existence for more than a decade, in the last few years—especially as a result of the COVID-10 pandemic—the market has seen a shift from primarily supporting continuing education, lifelong learning, and workforce development to introducing new types of nondegree learning, such as certificate programs, economic development upskilling, corporate training, […]
Community Discussion Webinar: Higher Education Technology Selection Trends of 2022

Need to modernize your student, finance or HCM systems? Or are you concerned that your current platform is aging? Understanding the technology selection trends of 2022 is the best information to build a strong support case for your strategic technology plan. In this free webinar, Tambellini expert Analysts, Mary Beth Cahill and Dave Kieffer will […]
Tambellini 2023 Student Systems Report Highlights

As many of you know, Tambellini has been tracking all student system vendors selling into higher education across North America (and, more recently, globally) for over 20 years. In April, for the 15th consecutive year, we released our 2023 Student Systems US Higher Education Market Share, Trends, and Leaders Report, which provides a detailed view […]
2023 Market Share, Trends, and Leaders Reports at a Glance

Guide your institution through vendor selection with Tambellini Group’s 2023 Market Share, Trends, and Leaders Reports for finance and HCM systems and student systems. This year’s reports reveal that higher education institutional selections for modern administrative systems across finance, HCM, and student declined by double-digit percentages in 2022 amid growing economic uncertainty. Learn all the […]
What Salesforce Education Cloud Means for Higher Education

Salesforce has launched its new Education Cloud industry platform, providing higher education with an integrated student-centric enterprise-wide CRM solution suite. The company is aligning its Education Cloud product strategy with the same approach that has brought it success across 11 other industries by leveraging the core Salesforce CRM platform and horizontal applications combined with innovations […]
The Future of Recruitment and Admissions CRM

While Tambellini research shows that approximately 70 percent of US higher education institutions have either selected a leading recruitment and admissions (R&A) CRM packaged application or developed their own custom CRM application (primarily R1 and R2 institutions), the mostly mature offerings in this space continue to innovate and broaden their functionality to maximize their impact […]
The Use of ChatGPT in Higher Education Advancement

You can’t listen to the news or pick up a news publication without hearing about the newest sensation, ChatGPT. As many of you already know, ChatGPT is a public chatbot launched by OpenAI that leverages a machine language learning model to converse with humans, answer complex questions, and even write content and application code. In […]
GLBA Safeguards Rule Compliance Deadline Extension

As most of you know, the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), also known as the Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999, was designed to regulate, control, and take affirmative precautions to safeguard sensitive nonpublic personal information (NPI) collected by organizations classified as “financial institutions” from individuals to obtain a financial product or service. The GLBA rules, which […]
Tambellini’s Key Takeaways from Oracle CloudWorld 2022

For the first time since 2019, Oracle held its CloudWorld user conference live in Las Vegas, Nevada. Thousands of attendees met both in person and remotely to learn about the company’s strategic vision and latest announcements. While this year’s conference was notably smaller than those of previous years, with a more intimate feel, it was […]