A K-12 Dean’s Perspective on TEFA: Promise, Process, and the Reality for Families
As conversations around the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) program continue to evolve, I wanted to step out of my usual higher-ed analyst role and spend time listening to someone who is dealing with TEFA at ground level. I asked my wife, Jenifer Winn, M.Ed. to sit down and answer a few questions about TEFA […]
[Webinar] Optimization-as-a-Service Implementation Models
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The technology market is shifting from project-based deployments (i.e., “Go Live & Goodbye”) to continuous adoption, as customers now require ongoing release management, process optimization, governance, and incremental innovation. Submit the form to watch Michael Anderson and Dave Kieffer explore how this shift impacts your institution’s organizational structure, governance, and staffing in technology implementation. Session […]
Making Platform Capabilities Central to Modernization Decisions
Modern cloud administrative solutions, including finance, HCM, and student, have delivered one clear set of outcomes: standardized, configurable processes where customers cannot customize the core application. That’s real progress, based on the critical weakness of legacy on-premises solutions —expensive customization and the need for massively disruptive upgrades. But it also created a very different data […]
Your AI Isn’t a Tool. It’s an Intern.
For the last few years, professionals have asked if AI would take their jobs. Now, in early 2026, we are seeing the first clear signals. While the long-term future of work remains unwritten, current data suggests that for now, AI is not replacing most roles. Instead, it is fundamentally transforming them. The right question to […]
Reimagining ERP Starts by Letting Go of the Past
Stop Replacing Systems. Start Reimagining Outcomes. In many ERP replacement initiatives across higher education, institutions say they want reimagination. But what often shows up in practice is something else entirely: a deep, almost gravitational pull toward requirements. Pages and pages of requirements. Detailed mappings of legacy processes. Endless conversations about how the old system worked […]
Design Principles: The Missing Link Between Strategy and Technology in Higher Ed
Most institutions don’t fail because they picked the “wrong” system. They struggle because the technology decisions made along the way are not anchored in shared, strategic guardrails. That is the role of design principles. Design principles are short, durable statements that describe how your institution will make technology decisions across selection, implementation, and operations. When […]
[Webinar] Tambellini’s Top Predictions for Education in 2026
As 2025 draws to a close, how have this year’s predictions for higher education held up? More importantly, what does 2026 have in store? Watch this strategic look at the trends that will define the future of education. In this exclusive webinar, we’ll review our 2025 forecasts—evaluating what materialized, what didn’t, and the lessons learned. […]
EDUCAUSE 2025: Exploring the Intentional Agility Fueling Higher Education Resilience
By the end of EDUCAUSE 2025, one prevailing sentiment stood out — recognition that higher education continues to be under sustained pressure, yet institutions are pushing ahead. Higher education leaders are carrying the accumulated weight of the last decade and a half. Many lived through the 2008 financial crisis, navigated years of enrollment and funding […]
[Webinar] What and How? Developing Your Institution’s AI Action Plan
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What high-impact use cases can higher education take advantage of now, using the latest advances in AI? How can institutional leaders prepare and execute a strategy for successfully using this technology? Submit the form to watch a valuable leadership session presented by Tambellini Group’s Alpha Hamadou Ibrahim and Dave Kieffer. We’ll explore how to maximize […]
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 […]
