Higher Education Strategic Data Planning

As the higher education landscape becomes more complex, universities are constantly seeking ways to reduce costs. Leading universities are moving to the cloud to achieve cost savings and enable data insights. Infinitive supports university leaders with the planning and preparation needed to successfully move to the cloud with AWS.

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Your Challenges

It’s difficult for higher education institutions to develop a strategic plan around data that prioritizes student success because:

Siloed data inhibits information sharing and collaboration
Misalignment exists amongst data stewards and owners
IT teams are under resourced
There is a lack of understanding for how data drives progress towards goals

Our Solutions

In as little as two weeks, Infinitive helps university leaders and constituents build consensus around university-wide goals and challenges to formulate a business case for investment in the cloud. Our Higher Education Strategic Data Planning Service will provide:

Summary of findings on institution goals communicated to stakeholders
Assessment of opportunities and gaps within data tied to prioritized goals
Business case for expanded use of the cloud
High-level roadmap with feasible and tangible next steps

How We’ve Done it

Infinitive helped an education organization overcome barriers of the college application process by streamlining the identification of trends. The client understood moving to the cloud was a potential solution but needed guidance of where to begin. Infinitive:

Conducted 25+ discovery interviews with internal and external parties to determine uses cases, user groups, and desired datasets
Guided the prioritization of the identified uses cases
Reviewed current data architecture internally
Collaborated with technical stakeholders to analyze the best tools and processes (ETL, QA testing, etc.)
Built a high-level roadmap for a data lake architecture including the prioritization of data tables for ingest
Partnered with AWS to confirm future state architecture
Conducted an executive briefing with the client to create alignment and understanding
Completed a Proof of Concept (POC) for a high complexity data set

Transformative Times for Higher Education eBook

Why Work With Infinitive

With over 20+ years of consulting experience in education, Infinitive has the expertise needed to help clients understand, prioritize, and align goals and challenges when it comes to data. We bring a comprehensive set of tools, templates, and frameworks to help university leaders understand their data maturity journey, identify next steps to enable data as a superpower, and build a business case for data to achieve strategic goals.

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AWS Advanced Consulting Partner with deep experience in higher education and education technology companies
Combination of industry, technology, and consulting expertise to drive progress against mission goals

Higher Education Strategic Data Planning

Your Challenges

Our Solutions

How We’ve Done it

Transformative Times for Higher Education eBook

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