Reaping Long-Term ROI Over Eight-Year Partnership with Tambellini Group
When a prestigious national R1 university first began a multiyear initiative to improve student services in 2015, its technology leadership reached out to Tambellini Group with a straightforward request for the comprehensive annual 2023 Student Systems US Higher Education Market Share, Trends, and Leaders Report. This in-depth report is a common entry point for Tambellini […]
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 […]
Best Practices for Overcoming Recruitment Challenges
Higher education recruitment and admissions professionals faced strong headwinds and a forthcoming enrollment cliff long before the pandemic hit, with National Student Clearinghouse data showing that total postsecondary enrollment declined by nearly 2 million students between 2011 and 2020. Though institutions were already using a wide array of technology tools to help in their efforts […]
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 […]
The Evolution of the Chatbot: Introducing Generative AI
To meet expectations around timely, relevant, and personalized communications amid budget cuts, staffing shortages, and other pressures, many higher education institutions are turning to chatbots—more recently, generative artificial intelligence (AI) chatbots. Institutions have been using chatbots for years now. However, recent solution advancements that utilize generative AI have profound implications for higher education, which has […]
Silent Cleanup: Managing Technical Debt in Higher Education Mergers and Acquisitions
With financial, political, demographic, and cultural pressures, higher education institutions are looking for new ways to operate and strengthen their standing (as recently highlighted in this survey.) Institutional leaders are increasingly pursuing mergers and acquisitions focused on aligning resources, simplifying operations, reducing duplication, and either direct or complementary alignment of academic offerings and student profiles. […]
Oracle and Workday Implementation Partner Considerations
In higher education, some enterprise administrative vendors choose to handle their own implementations, such as Anthology, Ellucian, and Jenzabar. However, Oracle and Workday, in addition to providing implementation services for their products, also support a broad network of certified implementation partners. Thus, institutions that select Oracle Fusion Cloud Applications (Oracle Cloud) or Workday solutions must […]
Standalone HR and Payroll Systems in Higher Education
Higher education institutions most often choose their HCM and finance platforms from the same vendor—and usually also choose their student system from that same vendor. This trend has been true in higher education for 30 years and continues in buying trends today. Institutions recognize that using a single platform for their key transactional systems provides […]
Tambellini StarChart™ Will Help Institutions Navigate Modernization Options, Technology Selections
To identify objects in the universe and orient themselves, astronomers, stargazers, and others use star charts — celestial maps that make it easier to navigate the vast night sky based on an individual’s location and time of year. These maps served as the framework for the Tambellini Group’s latest guide for higher education technology — […]
Modern Integration Strategy Is a Must for Modernization
As higher education institutions’ application portfolios have exploded in size during the last decade, data integration between those applications has evolved from a necessary evil to a competitive advantage when it’s done well. Institutions that struggle with modern integration methods and tools may find their journey toward modernization frustrating. Modern strategies and tools have matured […]
