2024 Field Guide: Platform Comparison 

Why Read This Research

Compare leading higher education administrative platforms designed to support institutions broadly across multiple functions. This guide explores platform solutions from Ellucian, Oracle Corporation, Salesforce, and Workday to clarify their capabilities and available extension functionality. Gain insight into each vendor’s platform strategy, including their approaches to integration, data repositories, reporting and analytics, artificial intelligence, machine learning, and extensibility.

Key Questions Answered

• What should higher education institutions consider when replacing or evaluating core administrative platforms?
• What capabilities do each of the leading higher education administrative platform solutions provide?
• How do the administrative platform solutions from Ellucian, Oracle Corporation, Salesforce, and Workday differ?

Features

• Vendors in Focus: Ellucian, Oracle Corporation, Salesforce, Workday
• Software Category in Focus: Human Capital Management Core, Financial Management Core, Student Core, Business Intelligence/Analytics, Student Analytics, Data Repositories, Integration
• Author: Dave Kieffer, Principal Analyst, Tambellini Group
• Research Availability: July 2024

Table of Contents

1. Executive Summary
2. Market Conditions
3. Ellucian Overview
4. Oracle Overview
5. Salesforce Overview
6. Workday Overview
7. Institutional Considerations