Innealla

Moving off TSM or Thesis
to Innealla

Thesis TSM has been the student management system at many UK and Irish colleges for a long time. If the platform, the pricing or the roadmap no longer fits where your college is going, Innealla is a cloud student information system built in Ireland: one student record from application to transcript, a fixed-price migration that imports your TSM data, and a supplier that answers the phone.

Talk about a move 

Platforms we run and connect for colleges

Your TSM data, imported and reconciled,
in a student information system built for colleges

Inneall engineer working on the Innealla student information system

Why colleges look at a move

We have integrated with TSM for years through its APIs, so we know what it holds and how colleges use it. The reasons a college starts looking elsewhere are usually practical rather than dramatic.

  • A platform transition or end-of-life on the horizon, with a re-implementation cost that invites the question of whether to re-implement at all
  • Fee, instalment, sponsor and QQI or Ofqual processes handled in spreadsheets beside the system
  • Reporting that needs an export and a developer rather than a question asked in plain English
  • Moodle, CRM, timetabling and finance each holding their own copy of the student, with staff re-keying between them
  • A support model built for large institutions, when you need a named engineer who knows your set-up
  • Wanting AI that works on the live student record without student data leaving the platform
What Innealla does

How the move works

Because we already read TSM data through its APIs for integration work, the extraction side of a migration is well trodden. The discovery tells you how clean your data is and fixes the price before you commit to anything.

  • Two-week discovery: a full extract via the TSM APIs or database, every table graded from A to G, a fixed price and a go-live date
  • AI-assisted migration of students, applicants, programmes, modules, enrolments, results, awards and fee history, with every transformation logged
  • Parallel run with reconciliation reports on students, enrolments and fees before cutover
  • Cutover timed between intakes, with a written rollback plan
  • Moodle, Salesforce or Zoho, finance and timetabling reconnected through the Integration Hub on day one
  • Live in under two months for most colleges, on a hosted subscription banded by student numbers with your rate held for 24 months
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Innealla student information system subscription, hosted and supported by Inneall
Staff member using the Innealla student information system with its built-in AI assistant

An AI brain, on your terms

Innealla is built with AI running through it, not bolted on. Staff ask it questions and tell it to do things in plain English, and it works against the live student record within the permissions that person already has.

  • Ask: “Which second-year students on the diploma are below 85% attendance and owe fees?” and get the list, with the figures traced to where they came from
  • Tell: “Set up the September intakes from this spreadsheet” comes back as a preview to approve before anything changes
  • Early alerts on students at risk, drawn from attendance, grades and fees together
  • Runs on a model hosted by Inneall in Ireland, so your student data never leaves our platform and there is no per-token bill from a third party
  • Optionally bring your own OpenAI or Anthropic keys for the tasks or hours you choose, so you control the cost model
  • Every request and every action is logged against the person who made it
How we approach AI for colleges

Is Innealla the right move for you?

It usually is when the college has a few hundred to several thousand students, runs programmes under QQI, Ofqual or a partner university, and wants a system shaped around how it actually works. It is not the right move for everyone, and we will say so at discovery.

  • Private and professional colleges in Ireland and the UK facing a TSM transition or renewal
  • Institutions whose fee, instalment and sponsor processes live in spreadsheets beside the SIS
  • Colleges already on Moodle or Salesforce that want the student record connected properly
  • Groups with several schools or brands that want one platform with a separate instance for each
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AI & Intelligent automation

Every connector, through one Integration Hub

Innealla owns the student record and the Integration Hub connects it to everything else a college runs. We build connectors for a living, so if one is missing we add it.

  • Moodle: our Moodle plugin provisions courses, cohorts and enrolments from the curriculum and keeps grades and announcements in step
  • Salesforce: a managed app we built, so applications and cases flow into the student record without re-keying
  • Zoho: the same, for colleges on Zoho CRM
  • Finance: GL journal export to your accounts system, payment providers, sponsor billing
  • CAO applications, Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace, email and SMS
  • Timetabling is in the core; an existing Celcat export imports for cutover
See our integrations

How we do things

Partnership, transparency, user-centred design and long-term quality guide every project. Each one runs through the same six stages, so you always know where it stands and who is accountable.

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DISCOVER
Audit and workshops
Scope of work
Integration mapping
Risk and dependency analysis
Finalised project plan
DESIGN
User experience
Concept proposals
Stakeholder reviews
Design development
Final specifications
Approval to progress
BUILD
Software development
System integration
Customisations
Content and data migration
Front end interface
TEST
Functional and user acceptance testing
Browser/app performance testing
Accessibility
System and security
DEPLOY
Training
Final configuration and domain go-live
Hypercare in the first weeks
Bug-fix support
Handover to support
SUPPORT
Tailored service level agreements
Responsive support
Planned maintenance
Quality control
Performance tuning

Discover how we think,
deliver and make an impact

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AI at Inneall

Lugh: the AI agent that answers our service desk first

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We love API environments
and the challenge of integration

We’ve integrated systems others refused to touch!

“Inneall’s impact on our ability to deliver reliable, scalable technology has been absolutely enormous. What sets them apart is their deep knowledge of our business, they understand our systems, our teams, and our priorities. That means we’re not dealing with a technology supplier; we’re working with a partner who genuinely cares about getting it right.”

Edward Ormonde

Head of IT, Dublin Business School

Frequently Asked Questions

Can you import our TSM data?
Yes. We have worked with the TSM APIs for integration projects for years, so extraction is a known process. Students, applicants, programmes, modules, enrolments, results, awards and fee history all map into Innealla, and the discovery grades each table before anything moves.
How long does a TSM to Innealla migration take?
Most colleges are live in under two months from the start of discovery, including a parallel run. The migration itself is AI-assisted and measured in days; the calendar is set by your intakes and your sign-off.
Will historic records and transcripts survive the move?
Yes. Historic enrolments, results and awards come across so transcripts for past students can be produced from Innealla. Documents are migrated to the student's record or kept in a read-only archive, whichever you prefer.
We are a UK college. Does Innealla handle UK processes?
Yes. Innealla is built for colleges in Ireland and the UK: awarding-body and partner-university programme structures, progression and classification rules configured without code, and finance that handles instalment plans, sponsors and holds. Hosting is in AWS Ireland under a data processing agreement; talk to us about data residency requirements at discovery.
What happens to our existing integrations?
They are rebuilt on the Integration Hub as part of the fixed price: our Moodle plugin, the Salesforce managed app or Zoho connector, and GL and payment exports to your finance system. Anything bespoke is scoped at discovery.