Salesforce as a Student Information System
After Anthology Student: the student record on Salesforce.
Anthology Student institutions are running a system whose vendor no longer exists in its old form. The record functions it carries — registration, grading, transcripts, compliance reporting — run natively in our Salesforce deployments today.
Where things stand
The situation around Anthology Student.
Anthology filed for Chapter 11 in 2025; its SIS and ERP business was acquired by Ellucian that December, and the remaining company was rebranded. Anthology Student currently has no product page and no publicly stated roadmap.
What runs natively
Everything Anthology Student holds today, native.
The record of truth moves whole. In our deployments these run natively on Salesforce — configured on the platform, not built beside it.
- Registration
- Prerequisite enforcement, section capacity and waitlists.
- Grading
- Grade entry, grade rolls and grade-change workflow.
- GPA and academic standing
- Computed in the platform, not imported into it.
- Official transcripts
- Produced natively; delivered through your existing service.
- Course catalog and class scheduling
- Terms, sessions, sections, rooms and times.
- Degree audit
- Degree progress and what-if analysis.
- Transfer credit
- Articulation rules, not just stored evaluations.
- Student financials
- Fee assessment, accounts receivable, payments and refunds.
Financial aid stays in the system your aid office trusts — live integrations with PowerFAIDS, Regent and Campus Ivy tie aid status into the same student record. Reporting and compliance run natively, by jurisdiction.
What changes day to day
The work after the migration, not just the migration.
A replacement is judged on the years after go-live. Four things institutions tell us changed once the record was on a platform.
- A student portal students actually use
- The same record, on the device already in their hand — registration, balances, holds and progress, without a separate portal that looks and behaves like a different decade.
- Capability is not gated behind modules
- Registration, grading, transcripts, degree audit, transfer credit and student financials are the platform, not separately purchased pieces assembled around it.
- Ownership is settled
- Salesforce is a public company whose platform carries banking, healthcare and government workloads. Who owns it, who patches it and who is investing in it are not open questions on your risk register.
- A support path with names in it
- Whether your team runs the platform or ours does, the people answering know your configuration. Nothing routes through days of establishing what the problem is.
Ten months, typically — for institutions under 10,000 students.
Institution size drives the timeline, and larger or more structurally complex institutions take longer — we will tell you where you fall in the first conversation. For context, the industry norm for an SIS replacement is measured in years.
Common questions
Moving off Anthology Student.
What does Ellucian’s acquisition mean for Anthology Student?
Anthology filed for Chapter 11 in 2025 and Ellucian acquired its student information system and ERP business that December, taking on the customer base. Ellucian has said there are no immediate changes to services, support or contractual terms. What has not been published is a roadmap stating where Anthology Student sits alongside the other student systems the same owner now maintains.
Is Anthology Student still being actively developed?
There is no public roadmap either way, which is itself the answer most institutions act on. We would rather say that plainly than repeat what competitors have claimed about development being paused — we have seen no evidence for it that a reader could check.
What happens to our student and staff portals?
They are replaced by experiences built on the record itself rather than a separate application reading from it. Students see their own live record, and staff see the same record with different permissions — so there is no portal to keep in step with the system behind it.
Is everything included, or are there modules to buy separately?
The record functions described on this page run on the platform itself. Financial aid processing stays in a dedicated aid system — PowerFAIDS, Regent or Campus Ivy — which is the correct architecture for Title IV work rather than a gap, and those integrations are live at client institutions today.
Insights & events
On this migration.
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