Case Study
Higher Education
Business Challenge
Our Solution
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Lacked the ability to bring together all the necessary pieces of information to perform more complete analysis of student information
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Improve efficiencies around data collection and validation
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Provide easier access to information and reduce the dependency on IT for all reporting
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Improve analytical and reporting capabilities
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Integrated data from source systems through multiple phases to provide a 360-degree view of the student lifecycle from prospect to the applicant to the student to alumni
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Built a semantic layer (universe) which abstracts the tables, joins, and fields into business user-friendly terms that are logically organized.
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Delivered many valuable reports to serve as seeds by which the organization could use to create new reports and perform self-service reporting
Business Value
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By integrating data from disparate systems in the data warehouse, analysts can build individual reports that pull data from systems they own as well as systems they previously had no access
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A significant time saving was realized and friction was eliminated from the analytical process by deploying self-service analytics
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The dean’s vision for thriving in the growingly competitive graduate school landscape was fulfilled