Let’s be honest – As a college, you want to manage fewer people or have them do more than just routine, repetitive tasks so you can focus on more core activities to improve student performance and experience. What you’re looking for is essentially a software solution that can take care of all these tedious tasks using data. However, it needs to be powerful enough to not only extract and authenticate data but also foster seamless data flow to streamline and centralize every process and communication.

Is that too much to ask for?

Yes, if you’re expecting an outdated iPaaS solution to do all this. You need a breakthrough solution that offers more than just incremental improvement by creating and sustaining an integrated hub that seamlessly connects every device in every department.

The first of its kind,

AMSA Connect’s Integrated Relationship Management platform is an innovative solution that can help campuses digitize and centralize every process in the student lifecycle by optimizing data extraction, authentication, migration, storage, and access.

Curious? Let’s learn about the importance of proper data extraction and migration and learn how an IRM platform handles both processes.

The Importance of Proper Data Extraction, Migration, and Storage for Colleges

In the new normal, it doesn’t matter if you have one digital process or a hundred. You need to extract different types of student data before you can use it. Data extraction is the process of collecting information from various sources. For colleges, this data could include student contact information, attendance and performance records, enrollment information, parents/guardian information, and more. Data extraction is crucial for colleges in the digital age. It aids in strategic decision-making and is the key to finding and retaining students, predicting performance, and optimizing operational efficiency.

In contrast, data migration and storage refer to the process of moving data from one application to another. Every department uses different software solutions designed for specific processes, such as marketing, enrollment, performance monitoring, payroll, and faculty management. Data migration offers several benefits for colleges, especially those that are rapidly transforming and adopting technologies. It allows users to maintain data integrity while minimizing interruption and manual data input.

Handling Data Extraction and Migration Using an IRM Platform

AMSA Connect’s IRM platform is loaded with a host of features that enhance the overall data integration and management experience, including an analytics dashboard that displays real-time data information as soon as the integration process initiates. The software allows colleges to extract structured, poorly structured, and unstructured data from different sources (applications used by different departments) for processing and storage. It uses powerful APIs that allow for faster integrations than most traditional iPaaS solutions in the market, thereby optimizing end-to-end automation. As a result, it unites the entire campus by centralizing all data-related processes in the student life cycle, such as enrollment, curriculum management, attendance, etc.

As far as data migrations and storage are concerned, an IRM platform can move your entire campus data and applications to the cloud so you can scale your collection and storage and ensure disaster recovery. The platform automatically analyses the student and administration data you’re migrating and formats it according to the source system and can even combine multiple data streams into one single mega stream. Moreover, the platform comes with the highest security protocols that enable end-to-end encryption at all times to protect valuable data and ensure it’s not vulnerable at any stage of the process. Once the data is extracted and migrated, users can use it according to their needs for several purposes, such as financial and curriculum management, reporting, scheduling, specialized lesson planning, and administrative payroll, etc.

Bottom Line

At AMSA Connect, we aim to simplify data extraction and migration so more colleges around the country can use student data to its full potential and potentially improve every process in their student life cycle. We believe that our state-of-the-art platform easily trumps some of the best iPaaS solutions in the market with seamless API integrations, automated deduplication, and interactive error logs.

If you’re ready to get on board the change wagon, get in touch and try out our unique solution and see how it works for you.