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Helios is the first AI agent-builder platform purpose-built for higher education — enabling institutions to build, govern, and ship their own AI agents on top of the systems and data they already run.",[28,44,45],{},"The announcement also marks the beginning of the end for Illuminate, the turnkey API platform N2N has operated for higher education for more than a decade. Illuminate will be retired with a period of overlap to ease customers into the transition to Helios.",[47,48,49,52],"blockquote",{},[28,50,51],{},"\"As Illuminate sets, Helios rises. Ten years ago, we built Illuminate so higher education could finally share its data on its own terms. Helios keeps every promise Illuminate made — fast, secure, turnkey API publishing — and then takes the next step: every API becomes a governed, auditable step in an AI agent pipeline.\"",[28,53,54,55,58],{},"— ",[31,56,57],{},"Kiran Kodithala",", Founder & CEO, N2N Services",[60,61,63],"h2",{"id":62},"from-illuminate-to-helios","From Illuminate to Helios",[28,65,66,67,70,71,74],{},"Illuminate's Photon, Wave, and Spectrum products allowed business users — not just programmers — to publish APIs over student information systems such as Banner, Colleague, and PeopleSoft in minutes rather than months, without expensive middleware. At its peak, the platform ran ",[31,68,69],{},"over 500 live APIs across 400 institutions",", served ",[31,72,73],{},"more than 3 million transactions per day",", and delivered compliance-grade uptime for years.",[28,76,77],{},"Helios preserves that turnkey API-publishing capability and adds an AI agent layer on top. Where Illuminate published APIs, Helios turns every API into a step in a deterministic, governed agent pipeline that is audited and explainable by default.",[60,79,81],{"id":80},"what-helios-delivers","What Helios delivers",[83,84,85,92,98,104,110],"ul",{},[86,87,88,91],"li",{},[31,89,90],{},"Connect anything to anything"," — inheriting every connector N2N has built since 2010, spanning Banner, Workday, PeopleSoft, Oracle, Anthology, Ellucian, custom databases, and REST, GraphQL, SOAP, and legacy XML interfaces.",[86,93,94,97],{},[31,95,96],{},"Arazzo-native agent pipelines"," — deterministic orchestration built on the open Arazzo specification, with Claude on Amazon Bedrock powering every reasoning step.",[86,99,100,103],{},[31,101,102],{},"Audit-by-default governance"," — every write action requires explicit confirmation, and every agent action traces back to a named, reviewable skill. 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We look forward to showing each of them the unique capabilities of Helios to unlock the potential of their integrations in this AI-enabled age. Transition happens on the customer's schedule — not ours. Helios becomes the default for every new institution starting now.\"",[28,147,54,148,58],{},[31,149,57],{},[60,151,153],{"id":152},"quantum-leap-after-effects","Quantum Leap after-effects",[28,155,156,157,160,161,164,165,168,169,172],{},"Helios arrives on the 100th day after ",[31,158,159],{},"Quantum Leap",", N2N's 15th-anniversary gathering at the Coca-Cola Roxy in Atlanta. 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