Data Platform Use Cases for Higher Education
What’s driving the urgency for data insights? These are the top four use cases for college and university administrators and IT teams.
Recruiting and Enrollment Pipelines
Identify more qualified candidates, keep them engaged, and improve acceptance rates with a streamlined, customized application process.
Personalized Donor and Alumni Relations
Provide more personalized experiences for active alumni, donors, and anyone else who visits your website.
Student Success
Enable advisors and faculty members to detect at-risk students and proactively reach out to them.
Operational Efficiencies
Leverage automation and IOT devices to improve the safety and efficiency of campus buildings and lower costs.
Maximize the Value of Data
With a centralized data platform, higher education institutions can unlock insights and unleash opportunities to grow and succeed.
But many IT leaders struggle to get stakeholders on board because:
Data infrastructures are outdated
Data governance systems are insufficient
Stakeholders are reluctant share data
IT teams are understaffed and under resourced
Start and Scale with Speed and Ease
Data Platform Accelerators help IT leaders overcome inertia and maximize results at the following five critical stages:
1. Get to Greenlight with JAM Sessions
NorthBay Higher Education JAM Sessions are immersive workshops during which university teams work alongside our AWS experts to build a strawman data platform in just 10 days. JAM Sessions are how we help get projects approved and launched.
Mitigate Risks
Build Skills in the Cloud
Develop a Business Case
JAM Sessions by Use Case
Download these four solution briefs to learn more
2. Plan for Data Platforms with Reference Architectures
Build a strong foundation for data management, governance and anonymization in a centralized environment with the future in mind. NorthBay has a decade of proven experience and frameworks that deliver results.
3. Build Use Cases with Platform Accelerators
Enable faster data on boarding and access for recruiting and enrollment, student success, alumni relations, or building operations. Our data ingestion orchestration engines, rules engines, data quality engine, and framework significantly reduce the time and risk associated with developing a centralized data platform.
4. Operate Confidently with the Operational Checklist
The NorthBay and AWS Data Platform Operations Checklist includes 150 mission-critical tasks to help your team prepare and ensure that your centralized data platform runs as expected.
5. Unleash Innovation
Maximize agility and insights by adding data sources at scale and better leverage AI/ML technologies.
How Data Platform Accelerators Help IT Leaders
New insights require modern technology. And, successful data projects benefit from great experience.
Platform Accelerators from NorthBay and AWS are a unique and proven set of processes and best practices, purpose-built to help higher education IT leaders:
Show Shortcomings of Siloed Data to Stakeholders
Prove Team’s Data Platform Building Experience
Effortlessly Operate Platform at Scale
Download our most-popular pdf for Higher Ed:
“The 5 NorthBay must-haves to accelerate
Data Platform deployments and remove risk”
Watch this 3-minute video to learn more about NorthBay and AWS Data Platform Accelerators
Data Platform Accelerators at Work
University of Pittsburgh
“NorthBay is a highly productive team with with great skills, communication, creativity – and quick issue resolution.”
Related Services for Higher Education
NorthBay Solutions is an AWS premier Consulting Partner with a diversified team of more than 350 solutions architects, cloud engineers, and cloud developers focused exclusively on cloud migration, application and data modernization, and data analytics initiatives.
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