Zoom Ventures Far Beyond Video Calls
Insights from Zoomtopia 23 Most institutions use Zoom for video in some fashion, whether via a full enterprise license, decentralized individual licenses, or the free version. Zoom has become synonymous with hybrid classes and work, but if you aren’t thinking about how Zoom can meet institutional needs beyond virtual meetings, you should be. Zoom has […]
Anthology Together 2023: Building Out on the Promise of a Single Solution
Approximately 2,000 attendees gathered at the Gaylord Opryland Hotel in Nashville, Tennessee, to learn what Anthology has delivered to its extensive product suite and what’s on tap for the next six months and beyond. Attendees applauded enthusiastically when Chairman and CEO Jim Milton announced that more than 200 new product features have been delivered since […]
CASE DRIVE 2023: A Critical Forum for Advancement Technology Practitioners
The annual CASE DRIVE conference convenes higher education advancement practitioners to discuss their daily work and the technology they use to support it. The 2023 event was back in person with a sold-out attendance, and it was energizing to come together to share ideas, discuss issues, brainstorm, and talk to colleagues in a safe environment. […]
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 Unfulfilled Promise of CRM: A One-of-a-Kind Event
On Wednesday, November 16, Tambellini Group hosted a one-of-a-kind event for institutions and organizations interested in CRM (constituent relationship management) in higher education. Tambellini’s Higher Education Summit: CRM Systems brought together top strategic executives from Microsoft, Salesforce, and Technolutions for a candid discussion among competing solution providers and market leaders. Panelists for the event included The […]
Promoting Student Success With Digital Transformation
Digital transformation (Dx) is a relatively new and somewhat fraught concept for higher education. Dx in higher education leverages technological innovation to produce shifts in the institutional culture and workforce to generate operational efficiencies, realize cost savings, and improve the institutional value proposition. Despite the potential benefits, higher education institutions are finding it difficult to […]
Financial Aid Needs More IT Support
It is no secret that financial aid is foundational to the relationship between an institution and students. Financial aid packages are one of the core factors that students and families use when deciding where to enroll. In today’s increasingly competitive enrollment environment, institutions face even more pressure to elevate the student financial aid experience and […]
Modern Campus Acquires Signal Vine and Augusoft
UPDATED 01/21/22 with information regarding Augusoft acquisition. In the span of one week, Modern Campus announced its acquisition of Signal Vine, the conversational text-messaging solution, and Augusoft, the noncredit course management platform, its latest in a series of rapid acquisitions in the last year. The announcements for the Signal Vine and Augusoft acquisitions outline most […]
Tambellini Takeaways: 2021 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference
The 2021 EDUCAUSE annual conference was held in Philadelphia last week. There were far fewer attendees than usual because of the pandemic, and the small numbers moving through the convention center created an eerie but also intimate effect. Long conversations, deep reflections, hard questions, and honest responses were the norm. These engagements led to our […]
Higher Education CIOs Support Student Success by Easing System Navigation
COVID-19 accelerated and emphasized the need for change, but the movement towards a more holistic and humanizing understanding of student success has been in the works for a long time. By now, most higher education CIOs know that expectations for student success in their institutions are evolving. What was once the purview of faculty, advisors, […]
