Ellucian Technology Partner Award winners announced at 2019 Partner Forum

Key takeaways

• Ellucian honored technology partners with awards in seven categories.
• Awards were distributed at the annual Technology Partner Forum that took place in Chicago in conjunction with the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference.
• Boasting more than 140 technology partners, Ellucian’s partner network is built to support colleges and universities with complementary software and services.

Ellucian announced its Technology Partner Award winners for 2019 at the annual Technology Partner Forum that took place in Chicago in conjunction with the EDUCAUSE Annual Conference.

“Each of these winners exemplifies the true spirit of partnership,” said Ellucian Senior Director, Partnerships Andrea Henry. “Our collaborative relationships operate with a shared customer first focus and alignment on technology roadmap, sales, business and marketing efforts to enable success for our mutual customers.”

The 2019 Ellucian Technology Partner Award winners are:

• Technology Partner of the Year: Leepfrog Technologies
  Leepfrog Technologies is an Ethos connected partner delivering a proven curriculum, catalog and course scheduling solution that enables Ellucian customers to easily, professionally, and cost effectively manage their curriculums from inception through registration.
• Innovation Partner of the Year: Amazon Web Services
  AWS provides a highly reliable, scalable, low-cost infrastructure in the cloud. Through close collaboration with Ellucian’s cloud and R&D teams Ellucian customers are enabled to quickly incorporate new services and features in support of their journey to the cloud.
• Ethos Excellence: Double the Donation
  Delivering its Ethos integration just 30 days after becoming a partner, Double the Donation’s gift matching solution dramatically increases donation dollars by quickly validating each donation for gift matching eligibility.
• Sales Excellence: ProcessMaker
  ProcessMaker brings high-end workflow and business process management capabilities to Ellucian’s solutions and customers, improving institutional efficiency.
• Rising Star: Kaufman Hall
  Kaufman Hall is an Ethos Connected partner delivering budgeting and strategic financing solutions to Ellucian customers that improve financial performance, ensuring sustained success in a rapidly changing business environment.
• Customer First: TouchNet Information Systems, Inc.
  TouchNet is an Ethos Connected partner providing integrated, comprehensive and secure commerce and credentials solutions to Ellucian customers.
• Invest to Win: ESM Solutions
  ESM is an Ethos Connected partner that helps Ellucian customers better meet their spend management objectives through its comprehensive suite of sourcing and supply management solutions.

Ellucian’s partner network is built to support colleges and universities with complementary software and services that help institutions achieve their missions. With more than 170 member companies, Ellucian maintains the largest network of partners providing solutions specific to the needs of higher education. Ellucian partners fall into two categories: technology partnerships that deliver software applications, technology infrastructure, and services that extend, enhance, and integrate with Ellucian’s core solutions; and channel partnerships that provide sales and services offerings around the globe. Ellucian’s comprehensive partner community covers solutions and services that touch all aspects of the student lifecycle, curriculum management, human resources, finance and many more specialty solution domains.

The Ellucian Technology Partner Forum is a daylong event that gathered leaders from more than 65 technology companies this year that support colleges and universities with software and services. Focusing on this year’s theme of integration, marketing and delivering a unified experience, the event included addresses from Ellucian executives, as well as sessions on digital transformation, Ellucian Ethos, sales priorities and engaging with the Ellucian brand.