
Partnership to enhance higher education delivery and digital transformation initiatives
RESTON, Va. and REDMOND, Wash., July 23, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Ellucian, the leading higher education technology solutions provider, today announced that ABCloudz, a full-service global technology firm with deep experience supporting Ellucian customers, has joined the Ellucian Partner Network (EPN) as a Service Partner. This partnership will accelerate digital transformation, streamline migration to SaaS, and enhance integration and reporting initiatives for higher education institutions.
Over years of collaboration, ABCloudz has gained in-depth technical and functional expertise across the Ellucian ecosystem, including Ellucian Student, Ethos, Insights, and Data Connect. The company’s unique customer-first approach and proven automation tools, such as the proprietary Modernization Studio, empower institutions to modernize core systems and advance their transformation with Ellucian SaaS.
“Our partnership with ABCloudz brings proven expertise and powerful tools like Modernization Studio into the fold, ensuring customers can confidently embrace digital transformation and drive meaningful outcomes with Ellucian SaaS solutions,” said Jeff Dinski, Chief Strategy and Corporate Development Officer, Ellucian. “This collaboration empowers colleges and universities to modernize more efficiently and realize measurable impact across student success, operational agility, and long-term resilience.”
“We are proud to join the Ellucian Partner Network as a Service Partner and strengthen our longstanding collaboration,” said Dmitry Balin, Managing Director, ABCloudz. “With more than a decade of experience helping institutions modernize with Ellucian, we are committed to supporting our customers throughout their SaaS migration journeys, integration modernization, and Ellucian ecosystem optimization. Together with Ellucian, we are committed to empowering institutions with agile, future-ready technology solutions that enhance student success and institutional resilience.”
With international expertise, capabilities and agile delivery models, ABCloudz is uniquely positioned to support complex migrations and integrations across diverse institutional environments. As an Ellucian Service Partner, ABCloudz will focus on providing integration and reporting solutions that help institutions accelerate their digital transformation and maximize the value of Ellucian SaaS.
To learn more about ABCloudz, visit: https://www.abcloudz.com
To learn more about Ellucian’s solutions, visit: https://www.ellucian.com/solutions/all-products
ABOUT ABCLOUDZ
ABCloudz Inc. is a full-service global technology company helping customers to manage data, applications and infrastructure in their organizations. With over 20 practices and close to 300 employees worldwide, ABCloudz continues the legacy of DB Best that delivered hundreds of successful modernizations, BI, cloud, data engineering, mobile, and ML/AI solutions worldwide, and sold its migration technology to Microsoft in 2005 and was acquired by Amazon in 2021.
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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