2025 Jenzabar Annual Meeting Recap
The 2025 Jenzabar Annual Meeting (JAM) was a vibrant celebration of progress, partnership, and purpose. With over 275 sessions, a packed JAM Hub, and a community of passionate educators and technologists, the event showcased Jenzabar’s renewed commitment to empowering institutions through innovation, transparency, and collaboration. A Theatrical Kickoff with Heart The opening keynote set a […]
Rethinking Institutional Resilience: What Higher Ed Leaders Should Be Doing Right Now
At MGT, we approach institutional challenges by aligning people, processes, data, and technology. This integrated lens helps institutions understand not just what’s broken—but what’s possible. In this time of uncertainty, institutions need more than reactive measures. They need frameworks for resilience, agility, and long-term sustainability. That’s one of the reasons why the Tambellini Group was […]
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 […]
3 Questions to Consider When Evaluating New Technology in Higher Education
As higher education institutions begin the process of evaluating new administrative systems, they often revert to what has historically been viewed as most important in technology selection—functionality and cost. That’s a mistake. When choosing software for legacy, on-premises systems in decades past, what it did was the most essential factor in the decision. Further, functionality […]
Preparing for the Complexities of the Simplified FAFSA
The most significant overhaul yet to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) is coming this December when the US Education Department plans to release its new simplified form. Reducing the application from over 100 questions to less than 50 will no doubt make it easier for many of the nearly 18 million students […]
Finding the “Perfect Last” Cloud ERP Investment for Your Institution
The overwhelming majority of US higher education institutions are approaching a critical crossroads with their ERP platforms as deadlines near for them to begin planning for replacing their legacy finance and HCM systems. Many are replacing these systems with SaaS products since their previous platform providers are likely to announce sunset dates for product […]
Understanding SaaS and Cloud Terminology in Higher Education
Navigating the world of cloud technology and Software as a Service (SaaS) can be confusing, with various terms used to describe the architecture of software solutions. In this blog, I’ll clarify these terms and discuss their implications for institutions investing in these technologies for the long term. Why You Should Care About SaaS and Cloud […]
Ellucian Live 2023: Ellucian Calls on Institutions to Join Them on Their SaaS Journey.
For the first time since 2019, thousands of participants met in person for the Ellucian Live conference in New Orleans. It was a memorable event with keynote speaker Malcolm Gladwell and a host of major announcements from Ellucian. Attendees filed into the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center, where they heard about Ellucian’s unapologetic plan to […]
Evisions Conference: Evisions Digs in Deep with Customers About the Future
With about 200 attendees, Evisions Conference 2023 was an intimate event packed with useful information. This year’s conference was the first in-person event for Evisions since the pandemic, with many attendees from previous years in attendance. My first impression of the event was how close the Evisions team is with its customers and how open […]
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 […]
