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Creating a data-informed campus: part 2

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As I discussed in the first blog post in this series , institutions need a sufficient technology infrastructure to facilitate curation, access, and retrieval of data. The campus had a strong compliance-oriented institutional research function, but other functions such as strategic planning and accreditation did not have a formal home.

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What does a data management platform actually do?

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A data management platform gathers data from your disparate campus databases and platforms—such as your LMS, your SIS, and your CRM—and then compiles and standardizes that data to establish a single, shared source of truth across campus. Edify automatically standardizes data from those systems so that it is clean, accessible, and trustworthy.

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3 Summer Tasks to Prepare for Financial Aid Season

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Using multiple systems for your data creates data silos, which can cause issues such as: Misplaced or otherwise hard-to-access data. This metric can illuminate the accessibility of your institution and potentially reveal areas where you could improve to attract more mission-appropriate students. Exceeding storage capacity.