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Magic Software Inc. makes the textbook travel
A digital textbook has a surprisingly long journey to the classroom. Behind MagicBox, Magic Software Inc. handles the rights, rosters, formats and connections that help it arrive.
Niche Wants Colleges to Make the First Move
The school-review company spent years helping students choose. Now it helps colleges choose them - with acceptance and scholarship offers arriving before an application.
Watermark Bought the Campus Back Office. Now It Wants to Make the Data Talk.
Watermark assembled six familiar higher-ed tools into one suite used by more than 1,500 institutions. The bet now is that connected data - not another dashboard - can turn accreditation paperwork into decisions people make before the deadline.
Studyportals
Studyportals is a Netherlands-based education platform that helps students discover and compare study programs anywhere in the world. Through nine portals - including Mastersportal, Bachelorsportal, PhDportal and Scholarshipportal - it lists more than 240,000 English-taught programs from over 3,500 institutions across 110+ countries, drawing roughly 50 million student visitors a year. For universities, it turns that global demand data into recruitment, analytics and consulting services, and in 2024 it launched an AI Student Advisor named Sophia, built with AWS, to guide applicants in more than 20 languages.