an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . december 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message datatel inc. type private industry higher education technology solutions fate merged with sungard higher education successor ellucian founded 1968 ; 48 years ago 1968 founder tom davidson headquarters fairfax virginia u.s. key people jeff ray president ceo revenue 138.0 million usd 2009 number of employees 533 website http www.ellucian.com datatel inc. was a private company that provided fully integrated software and professional services to build enterprise education platforms for higher education until it combined with its competitor sungard higher education to form ellucian in 2012 . datatel was headquartered in fairfax va. with 533 employees datatel had more than 799 client institutions located in the united states canada guam puerto rico american samoa and bermuda . 1 contents 1 history 1.1 timeline 2 awards 3 products 4 professional services 5 related information 6 reviews 7 notes 8 additional references history edit datatel was founded by tom davidson in 1968 as a data processing service bureau . the company began in the mezzanine of a suburban office supply store outside of washington d.c. . a few years later datatel began performing data processing for banks . in 1973 the company grew substantially when davidson merged datatel with data technology corporation owned by ken kendrick . datatel focused on higher education since 1979 . 2 beginning in 1992 the company was led by russ griffith who died on august 7 2006 . under russ s leadership in 2005 datatel s executive team backed by thoma cressey equity partners and trident capital signed an agreement to acquire the company from davidson and kendrick . 3 while no longer involved with the company to this day davidson went on to co found the balance bar food company in 1992 4 and kendrick is a managing partner and co owner of the arizona diamondbacks baseball team . in 2004 datatel acquired the liquidmatrix corporation 5 a buffalo based provider of student recruiting and alumni outreach web based software . datatel was acquired in december 2009 by private equity company hellman & friedman . 6 in march 2012 datatel was combined with sungard higher education to form a new company ellucian . 7 timeline edit 1972 datatel released their first product the silent 700 a programmable data terminal 1975 became the first east coast microdata dealer 8 1976 began development of tops the total office product system later to be known as assets 1979 became first prime information dealer and began selling solutions for colleges and universities willamette university became first datatel client 9 development of colleague began 1986 san francisco office opened 1987 moved to current headquarters in the fair lakes area of fairfax virginia 1988 sold 100th colleague client 1989 changed to multiplatform unix 1990 datatel scholar s foundation established 1991 announced products on ibm and sequent first canadian client university of waterloo 1996 introduced client server 2002 datatel center for institutional effectiveness dcie formed 2004 acquired liquidmatrix corporation 2005 management buyout of founders 2006 longtime president and ceo russ griffith passes away 10 2007 datatel reached 39th year of consecutive growth 11 releases activecampus portal built on microsoft sharepoint 12 2009 datatel was acquired in december 2009 by private equity company hellman & friedman . 6 2010 datatel announces revenue of 138m in 2009 13 2012 combined with sungard higher education to form ellucian . 7 awards edit recipient of the u.s. senate productivity and quality award spqa for virginia in 1997 selected as one of the washingtonian magazine s great places to work in 2001 2003 2005 and 2007 14 recipient of the 2003 care award for mid sized companies as presented by the northern virginia family services organization 15 recipient of the 2003 national capital business ethics award from the national capital chapter of the society of financial service professionals 16 recipient of the university of maryland s smith digital economy award in 2008 17 top finalist for microsoft partner of the year award in information worker solutions portals and collaboration in 2008 18 named microsoft public sector education partner of the year 2009 developing an enterprise crm solution expanding into the teaching and learning market segment and introducing a mobile application for administrative and academic information on the go 19 products edit datatel colleague an administrative software suite based on a single source technology approach coupled with data driven rules based architecture . the five components of colleague are core st student cf colleague finance ca colleague advancement hr human resources datatel mobile access mox powered by dublabs datatel portal datatel recruiter datatel wcms datatel intelligent learning platform ilp professional services edit administrative and application management consulting datatel center for institutional effectiveness dcie provides strategic planning programs for administrators in higher education institutional effectiveness professional executive services strategic planning and project management support and self service training and education web site design related information edit datatel users group or dug is a professional association of members from datatel s client institutions . dug holds annual and regional conferences . in 1990 datatel formed the datatel scholars foundation to award scholarships to outstanding undergraduate and graduate students attending datatel client institutions . the foundation has awarded over 3 700 scholarships totaling more than 5.5 million . reviews edit a review from 2013 at 1 gives a bald faced view of datatel colleague . the software uses telnet for communications works with 80x24 text screens and has a very simple database system that is prone to locking problems . notes edit datatel inc. google finance profile 2008 datatel and wealthengine.com sign partner agreement datatel news and events 2008 dead link datatel executive team announces management buyout of datatel inc. backed by thoma cressey equity partners and trident capital business wire march 18 2005 dead link balance bar co proxy statement february 5 1999 datatel completes acquisition of liquidmatrix ; union makes it easy for universities and colleges ... allbusiness 2004 a b hellman & friedman acquires datatel datatel press release 2009 a b ellucian new company name announced for datatel and sungard higher education combination . business wire . march 26 2012 . retrieved 20 april 2012 . then ... and now datatel from original microdata dealer to today s top notch provider of solutions for higher education international spectrum 2005 join a stable client community 2008 russ griffith datatel ceo dies at 59 ; vernon hollidge named interim chief executive officer . business wire . 2006 . datatel posts record revenue in 2007 business wire april 14 2008 datatel selects microsoft sharepoint for its next generation erp solution ; technology to help datatel build the optimum user experience business wire 2005 datatel finishes 2009 strong with record revenue datatel press release 2010 washingtonian magazine again selects datatel as a great place to work company makes list a third time business wire october 24 2005 the care awards honor roll 1992 2006 datatel s quality milestones university of maryland honors datatel with 2008 smith digital economy award 2008 datatel counted among top finalists for the 2008 microsoft partner of the year award in information worker solutions portals and collaboration 2008 datatel honored as 2009 microsoft worldwide partner conference awards winner in public sector education partner of the year 2009 additional references edit company website datatel offers web enabled management software campus technology august 12 2002 company profile for datatel inc. reuters 2008 great places to work the list washingtonian magazine 2005 microsoft announces 2008 partner of the year awards finalists and winners 2008 great places to work where to feel at home washingtonian magazine 2007 retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title datatel & oldid 738801247 categories software companies based in virginiahidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external links from august 2014articles with a promotional tone from december 2013all articles with a promotional tonepages using infobox company with unsupported parameters navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout 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