Ellucian, the higher education technology solutions provider, has announced a new global strategic partnership with Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a global IT services, consulting, and business solutions organization.
TCS will be the first Global Systems Integrator partnering with Ellucian and this partnership will enhance Ellucian’s professional services expertise and provide global scale to meet higher education’s needs.
As part of this collaboration, TCS will leverage its expertise as a growth and transformation partner in support of Ellucian’s efforts to transition its customers to its SaaS product platform and solutions Additionally, Ellucian and TCS will collaborate on initiatives to build knowledge and capabilities across their global teams.
“Our new partnership with TCS demonstrates our commitment to customers, bolstering our ability to deliver transformational services at scale with shared goals to increase retention rates, lower costs, reduce time and complexity for administrators, and improve the overall user experience for our customers,” said Ricardo Leitao, Senior Vice President, Global Services. “TCS has a strong reputation for digitizing institutional processes throughout the student lifecycle, and their added expertise and capabilities will allow us to better support our customers to evolve for the future and execute on their IT and cloud strategy.”
“We are excited and happy to announce that Ellucian and TCS have entered into a strategic partnership. This relationship will benefit institutions in higher education by bringing together the best-in-class product solutions from Ellucian, and business transformation services from TCS to improve operations, efficiency, and the end-to-end experience for students, faculty, and staff,” said Ankur Mathur, Head, Education Unit, TCS. “With higher education going through a massive revamp, this strategic partnership will help educational institutions to digitally transform and reimagine their technology landscape.”
Ellucian is the market enabler charting the digital future of higher education with a portfolio of cloud-ready technology solutions and services.
From student recruitment to workforce analytics; from fundraising opportunities to alumni engagement; Ellucian’s comprehensive suite of data-rich tools gives colleges and universities the information they need to lead with confidence.
Working with a community of more than 2,900 customers in over 50 countries, Ellucian keeps innovating as higher education keeps evolving.
Drawing on its comprehensive higher education business acumen and suite of services, Ellucian guides its customers through manageable, sustainable digital transformation—so that every type of institution and student can thrive in today’s fast-changing landscape.
