A Look Back at the Most Read Resources for Higher Education Leaders

As the summer draws to a close and institutions and their staff prepare for a new semester, Tambellini Group looks back at the research topics and resources that were the most interesting to IT leaders in higher education for the first half of the year. With modern cloud system selections on the rise in finance, HCM, and student, it’s no surprise that readers want to understand the trends in the market, learn more about vendor acquisitions, and put all of the information in context to make faster decisions.

Trends in Higher Education Technology Selections

Tambellini Group’s Market Share, Trends, and Leaders reports provide members with key market trends in technology selections for the previous year. The highly anticipated reports are augmented by resources that continue to help give context to IT leaders.

• The Ohio State University Walks Away from Workday Student summarizes Tambellini’s insights on why the flagship university decided not to move forward with the Workday Student product.
• Verticalization Strategies of Megavendors: How is Higher Education Faring? outlines how vendors spend considerable time and capital building out vertical solution sets with better integration, user interfaces, and pathways to a complete solution.
• Student System Features Higher Ed CIOs Should Be Considering examines how campus leaders and higher education CIOs can look towards meeting student needs with their student system selection

Vendor Acquisitions

The first half of 2022 was filled with headlines about vendor mergers and acquisitions. While vendors were touting that the changes would result in big impacts and easy transitions, Tambellini Group was analyzing what this meant for the higher education market and customers of these solution providers.

• Ellucian On-Trend with CampusLogic Acquisition
• The Anthology and Blackboard Merger
• Watermark Acquires Aviso Retention
• Modern Campus Acquires Signal Vine and Augusoft
• Jenzabar’s Acquisition of Spark451 Is An Expected Fit

Insights in Context for Higher Education

Knowing that information is even more powerful when put into context, Tambellini analysts developed many resources that could assist IT leaders with making more informed decisions. In service to the higher education community, these resources are available to all IT leaders at no cost. Check out the topics that IT leaders found the most helpful when putting insights in context for better decision making.

• Why Is Change So Hard for Higher Education? provides insights on how higher education’s collaborative and collegial structure may impede progress.
• The Role of the Chief Data Officer in Higher Education is a podcast that discusses why institutions may want to consider establishing the Chief Data Officer role.
• The Relationship Between Higher Ed, Ed Tech, and the Teaching and Learning Community Needs a Reboot is an example of the increasingly fraught relationship between the teaching and learning community and the ed tech industry.
• What Higher Ed CIOs Should Know About Preferred Names and Pronouns highlights why names and pronouns matter and what CIOs should think about to help meet the needs of their students.
• Tambellini Takeaways: 2021 EDUCAUSE Annual Conference outlines the top takeaways from Tambellini analysts for the 2021 EDUCAUSE conference.

Helping Higher Education IT Leaders Make Informed Decisions

Tambellini Group remains committed to providing resources to IT leaders and the higher education community that can help leaders and their teams make smarter and faster decisions for their institution or organization. As we launch into the fall of 2022, don’t forget to check out Tambellini’s Top of Mind Resources each week to stay up-to-date on the recent trends and topics important to higher education technology leaders.