In the digital era, most organizations are rapidly digitalizing and automating their processes. But the question remains, why are higher ed institutions choosing to stay behind and sticking to manual data management when they can invest in tools to help them automatically track the development of students across the entire student life-cycle? The more...
Many higher ed institutions are making data agility optimization a top priority, especially after the events of 2020 that not only accelerated digital transformation but also changed the education industry. On top of continuously collecting and storing student data, colleges must extract important trends and insights from it to improve every stage of the...
A while ago, University of Texas was like other schools. It lacked access to timely insights and, more importantly, its analytics department suffered from fundamental problems with data governance, data management, and data integrity. As a result, data was limited to silos and enterprise analytics was more difficult than ever. But all of that is...
In the digital age, higher ed institutions have to deal with a new challenge – managing vast amounts of data throughout the student lifecycle. While traditional tools and platforms, such as Integrated, Ireava, and Jiiterbit, have enabled paperless on-campus data management, they generally require several integration steps and often call for high-level IT intervention before...
Data is the most powerful resource in the digital era. For colleges, it is a useful tool to inform, engage, monitor, and evaluate students throughout the student lifecycle. With technology and educational trends rapidly changing, healthy data can also help higher ed institutions gain more insight and make better on-campus decisions, such as constructing new...
There’s a lot more to student success than getting good grades. Apart from high-quality learning, it also includes strong retention, performance monitoring, graduation rates, and alumni engagement, etc. With the education industry rapidly evolving, college leaders and departments are prioritizing student lifecycle management by employing the latest tools and technology to get actionable, healthy data. In...
The importance of data is boundless in an industry where an abundance of valuable student information keeps circulating from one system to another. Converting this data into usable insight can improve information flow across Higher E d institutions. However, institutions require a healthy data pipeline that’s streamlined, normalized, aggregated, and deduplicated. Most higher education institutions have...
There was a time when Nokia was the king of mobile phones. Then, Apple and Google’s Android came along and kick-started the smartphone revolution. Nokia was still engineering great, durable phones. However, as people started to embrace touchscreen display, ease-of-use, and user experience, its technology slowly became obsolete. Similarly, higher education institutions have undergone several technology...
Just what does it mean to have “duplicate data”? Maybe it’s a phrase you’ve heard here and there when it comes to the data your school or organization keeps, but what does it truly mean. It’s sort of just what it sounds like – duplicate data means you have data and is repeated, over...
