Datatel

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Datatel, Inc.

Company type	Private
Industry	Higher Education Technology Solutions
Founded	1968; 56 years ago (1968)
Founder	Tom Davidson
Fate	Merged with SunGard Higher Education
Successor	Ellucian
Headquarters	Reston, Virginia
Key people	Russ Griffith/CEO
Revenue	$138.0 Million USD (2009)
Number of employees	533
Website	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, Virginia.

With 533 employees, Datatel had more than 799 client institutions located in the United States, Canada, Guam, Puerto Rico, American Samoa, and Bermuda.^[1]