Each fall since 2012, Moran Technology Consulting (MTC) has sponsored the EDUCAUSE Awards Program as an EDUCAUSE Gold Partner. This program provides four major awards to exemplary higher education IT leaders who are transforming the strategic role of information technology across higher education while tackling today’s ever-changing realities. MTC was pleased to join EDUCAUSE in …
By Claire Gilbert, Sr. Consultant, Moran Technology Consulting Invariably, our client engagements include some question of people. How do I staff this major project? Is my organization structured appropriately for the strategies that we want to implement? How can we better recruit and retain employees in this increasingly competitive and nationwide (often global) market for …
Sponsoring EDUCAUSE’s “Women Advance Technology” Program to Advance Us All Read More »
This article is Cross-posted at LISTedTECH By: Charlie Moran, Sr. Partner & CEO, Moran Technology Consulting Justin Menard, CEO, LISTedTECH Key points: While there has been some diversification in offerings, the four SIS vendors with the greatest market share take up almost 80% of the total SIS market share, and this has been stable for …
Evolution of the Higher Ed SIS Market Share, 2000 – 2020 Read More »
My wife is a great cook. We often go to the store together to buy the ingredients she needs – she buys the freshest stuff, and the right type of things, etc. We get home and there are two possible scenarios: I cook the meal; or she cooks the meal. If I cook it, the …
In previous posts, I’ve discussed that the downward trend in new SIS implementations. We’ve also examined how the institutions that are implementing new SIS products are largely moving to cloud-based systems. In this post, lets dig in to see Who these early adopters of cloud SIS?”. We’ve been working with LISTedTECH for data for our …
By: Charlie Moran, Sr. Partner & CEO, Moran Technology Consulting Justin Menard, CEO, LISTedTECH This article is Cross-posted at LISTedTECH * In a previous blog post, we discussed a multi-year downward trend of new Student Information System (SIS) implementations. Despite this downtrend, there are still many institutions upgrading and buying new SIS suites. In this …
Data Centers? We don’t need no stinking Data Centers! Read More »
I decided to play Don Quixote and try to define cloud computing… it probably won’t work, but I’m gonna try! A few times a month, I find myself talking with a campus CIO who says “A board member says we have to move to the Cloud right away.” I say “Do they know what that …
Some clouds aren’t clouds… but a truth is a truth…. Read More »
This article is Cross-posted at LISTedTECH By: Charlie Moran, Sr. Partner & CEO, Moran Technology Consulting Justin Menard, CEO, LISTedTECH Key points: New Student Information System (SIS) implementations have been plummeting since 2011 Small to medium sized institutions with less than 10,000 students are more likely than larger institutions to install a new product in …
Current Trends in the Higher Ed SIS Market 2010 – 2018 Read More »
I was part of a team that wrote an EDUCAUSE Review article on Selecting and Deploying a Enterprise Systems – I hope you find it helpful as you think through the benefits and challenges of moving to a new Enterprise System (SIS, Finance, HR/Payroll, CRM, …! Head over to Educause Review to read it!
Ellucian owns a few ERP suites and the best and most robust is their Banner product line and it appears to be the recipient of most of Ellucian’s new product development. However, over the past several years, new Banner licenses have been hard to find for Ellucian. We’ve heard estimates that Banner provides about 50% …