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 […]
Oracle’s Vision Comes Together: The Company That Now Builds AI from Silicon to Service
There comes a point when a company stops talking about what it wants to become and starts proving what it already is. That was Oracle this week at AI World 2025 in Las Vegas, a company now emerging as a unified force rather than a collection of disconnected ambitions. For years, Oracle’s story has been […]
Tambellini Reveals the 2025 Higher Education Market Trends and Leaders
Modernizing administrative technology and processes remain a top priority for resource-constrained higher education institutions as they seek to increase agility and resiliency in their operations. As institutions assess their strategies for maximizing limited resources, understanding the market dynamics and institutional trends driving higher education modernization is crucial for technology investment planning and strategy. Institutions can […]
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 […]
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 […]
Student Analytics: Focusing on a Critical Issue as a Catalyst for Creating a Data Culture
Institutions have been using terms such as “data driven” and “data informed” with regard to decision making for decades, but, as Tambellini research noted in a recent blog post, the issue of poor data hygiene impedes any meaningful progress for many institutions. So, while many aspire to create a data-informed culture, significantly fewer have the […]
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 […]
2022 Oracle and Workday Higher Education Implementation Partners Differentiators
Tambellini recently completed its Oracle and Workday implementation partner series for finance, human capital management, and student that evaluated nine leading services firms in higher education. Three of the vendors offer Oracle Cloud implementation services (Drivestream, Highstreet, and Sierra-Cedar), three provide Workday deployment services (Alchemy, Avaap, and Collaborative Solutions), and three offer implementation services for […]
Four Student Selection Trends for US Higher Education
The Tambellini Group has followed global and US higher education student system selections for more than 20 years. In June 2022, Tambellini released its 14th annual Student Systems US Higher Education Market Share, Trends, and Leaders Report. Tambellini tracks selection activity in the market because it is most helpful to institutional buyers who want to […]
Tambellini’s Higher Education Summit Series: Student Systems
Built on the principle of “service first,” Tambellini Group’s Higher Education Summit Series is a premier series of events designed to bring together the top minds in higher education all in one place. The first Summit in our series, Student Systems, features top product strategy and development executives in the student systems market. Hear these […]
