Ellucian Recognizes 2024 Partner Award Winners

Leader in higher education technology honors Ellucian Partner Network organizations for outstanding collaboration, innovation, and service to customers

RESTON, Va., April 8, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Ellucian, the leading higher education technology solutions provider, today announced the winners of the 2024 Ellucian Partner Awards. The annual awards recognize Ellucian Partner Network (EPN) members for their collaboration and impact in delivering excellent customer experience to higher education institutions.

"The strength of the Ellucian Partner Network lies not just in the breadth of our collaborations, but in the depth of shared commitment to solving higher education's most complex challenges," said Jeff Dinski, Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer, Ellucian. "This year's award recipients exemplify what's possible when innovation is aligned with purpose. These partnerships accelerate institutional transformation, empower student success, and reinforce the critical role technology plays in shaping the future of education."

Ellucian's Partner Awards program recognizes industry partners for outstanding achievements across categories including Innovation Excellence, Sales Excellence, Integration Excellence, Customer First, SaaS Accelerator, Service Partner of the Year, Most Enabled Partner, and EPN Partner of the Year.

The Ellucian 2024 Partner Award Winners are:

EPN Partner of the Year – TouchNet 
Highest award highlighting exemplary collaboration and impact
TouchNet has consistently collaborated to address customer challenges and improve integration, showcasing an unwavering commitment to enhancing customer experiences. TouchNet is a global payments company providing integrated, comprehensive, and secure commerce and credential solutions for colleges and universities.

SaaS Accelerator – Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Driving SaaS transformation in higher education
As a Global Strategic Alliance partner in the Ellucian Partner Network, AWS works closely with Ellucian across Sales, Marketing, Technology, and Solutions Consultancy functions to help drive transformation of higher education with Ellucian SaaS solutions.

Innovation Excellence – ESM Solutions
Elevating product excellence through technology
ESM Solutions has proven itself as a key partner providing creative use of technology to power procurement processes for higher education institutions.

Sales Excellence – Emburse, Inc.
Collaboration in sales and marketing efforts
Focused on travel and expense functionality, Emburse continues to work in collaborative and innovative ways on shared sales objectives that consistently put Ellucian customers first.

Integration Excellence – NEOED
Most inventive and extensible integration
NEOED has proven itself as a key partner providing inventive and extensible Ellucian solution integrations that streamline talent acquisition, performance management, and employee development for higher education institutions.

Customer First – CourseLeaf
Superior partnership on contributing to solve customer challenges
CourseLeaf's academic operations platform enhances administrative efficiency, ensures system-wide precision, empowers student success, and exemplifies exceptional partnership in addressing customer challenges.

Service Partner of the Year – Strata Information Group (SIG)
Outstanding delivery and commitment
SIG was honored with the Service Partner of the Year award, recognizing their outstanding joint engagement in sales and service, commitment to Ellucian, and consistent delivery excellence.

Most Enabled Partner – Ferrilli
Most badged and enabled staff
Ferrilli was recognized as the inaugural recipient of the Most Enabled Partner award, a new category honoring exceptional partner commitment to the Ellucian enablement program and achievement of key badging and learning milestones.

Ellucian works with more than 2,900 higher education institutions around the world supporting 20 million students on their education journey. The Ellucian Partner Network focuses on shared success through joint marketing, sales collaboration and technology enablement. With more than 150 members, Ellucian maintains one of the largest networks of strategic partners providing solutions specific to the needs of higher education.

To learn more about the Ellucian Partner Network, visit: https://www.ellucian.com/partners.

ABOUT ELLUCIAN

Ellucian powers innovation for higher education, partnering with more than 2,900 customers across 50 countries, serving over 20 million students. Ellucian's AI-powered platform, trained on the richest dataset available in higher education, drives efficiency, personalized experiences, and strengthened engagement for students, faculty and staff. Fueled by decades of experience with a singular focus on the unique needs of learning institutions, the Ellucian platform features best-in-class SaaS capabilities and delivers insights needed now and into the future. These solutions and services span the entire student lifecycle, including data-rich tools for student recruitment, enrollment, and retention to workforce analytics, fundraising, and alumni engagement. Ellucian's innovative solutions, vast ecosystem of partners and user community of more than 45,000 provides best practices leading to greater institutional success and achieving better student outcomes.

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