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Stop Before You Start: The Importance of a Data Strategy

Introduction As we all have seen in headlines over the last few years, there are unprecedented headwinds facing Higher Education.  Some of the most striking challenges are widespread removal of degree requirements for sought after tech sector jobs1, expansion of online program delivery, rising tuition costs, and growth of non-traditional education such as short courses …

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Mind the Culture Gap: How to address rapidly growing security, compliance, and privacy requirements in higher education by first minding the culture gap

Perhaps you have gotten a letter recently from your institution’s insurance provider informing you that you need to demonstrate that you have specific security controls in place before the cyber liability insurance coverage will be renewed. At the same time, you are concerned about losing Title IV funding if you don’t incorporate the FTC’s changes …

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Evolution of the Higher Ed SIS Market Share, 2000 – 2020

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 …

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Data Centers? We don’t need no stinking Data Centers!

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 …

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Current Trends in the Higher Ed SIS Market 2010 – 2018

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 …

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