Illinois State University Makes Informatica its Platform for Harnessing Data to Drive Student Success
14 Maio 2015 - 5:00PM
Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA), the world's number one
independent provider of data integration software, today announced
that Illinois State University (Illinois State) has made
Informatica the cornerstone of its ability to harness data to
enable student success. Specifically, Illinois State has
implemented Informatica PowerCenter as the data integration
foundation of its multi-year "LEAPForward" project, which is aimed
at optimizing student-oriented business and data processes and
providing a platform for business intelligence and analytics to
enable student success at the university and beyond.
Illinois State is using Informatica PowerCenter to create:
- A cohesive presentation of each student's time at Illinois
State - PowerCenter is handling the movement, conversion and
cleansing of the university's considerable base of historical
student data (biographical, demographical, scholastic, etc.) from
its soon-to-be-retired legacy mainframe to its new ERP-based
Student System to provide a unified environment for accessing and
leveraging student information.
- An enriched data environment for analytics - PowerCenter is
also the data integration foundation for Illinois State's new data
warehouse, integrating, transforming and enriching data from
multiple sources for use by administrators and staff for business
and academic decision-making purposes.
"We have an intense executive-level interest at Illinois State
in using data to enable student success," said Matthew Helm,
interim associate vice president and chief technology officer,
Illinois State University. "Because of our strong historical focus
on student outcomes, Illinois State's retention and graduation
rates are very high. With the "LEAPForward" program and our
investments in Informatica data integration technologies, we now
possess the platform we need to make more effective use of data to
meet strategic goals and drive our student success metrics even
higher."
Making data more useful
Through its use of Informatica, Illinois State is able to
deliver trusted common data sets across the institution to increase
the effectiveness of student-oriented business processes and
enhance the productivity and decision-making capabilities of
educators and administrators. The university is also able to enrich
and ensure the usefulness of its information through built-in
business logic and automated data validation.
Additionally, with the successful decommissioning of its
mainframe system using Informatica PowerExchange, Illinois State
will soon be able to provide a single system and interface for
accessing student information and serving students across their
careers at the university, with the added benefit of enhancing
students' perceptions of their experiences.
Informatica advantages
Informatica provides Illinois State and its "LEAPForward"
project with numerous specific technical and economic advantages.
These include:
- Faster data integration development - PowerCenter presents a
codeless, GUI-based development environment with extensive reuse of
data mappings and other integration routines and objects.
PowerExchange provides high-performance, near universal access to
any data source, including mainframe. This enables faster and less
costly development and greater agility in addressing evolving
information needs.
- More productive IT teams - By automating its data integration
processes with PowerCenter, Illinois State is able to build at a
scale that it could not otherwise achieve, with fewer full time
employees producing a higher volume of information solutions than
was previously possible.
- Rapid data conversion and migration - With Informatica proving
both the software and the methodology for its mainframe migration
project, Illinois State has been able to considerably accelerate
the traditionally time-consuming process of moving data from the
mainframe, reorganizing it and making it fit for purpose for the
university's new ERP system.
- Ready access to qualified developer resources - The
availability of thousands of certified Informatica developers has
made it easy for Illinois State to define and acquire the specific
data integration development skills it requires.
"Informatica PowerCenter is a foundational part of our project,
not just in building integrated data marts but in transforming and
expanding them down the road to meet new demands for information,
while also easily maintaining what we have," said Beth Ladd,
director of Business Intelligence, Illinois State University.
"Overall, our use of Informatica will help make Illinois State's
business intelligence organization more nimble as we continue to
make our data assets more accessible and applicable to more people
across the organization."
Future steps
Beyond laying the foundation for student data marts and the
institutional data warehouse for business intelligence and
analytics, the use of Informatica PowerCenter will also be extended
across Illinois State's other core administrative systems,
including its HR and finance systems. Further out, the university
intends to leverage metadata management capabilities to make
extensive use of business metadata in its push to make useful data
more accessible to the campus as a whole.
Informatica will also eventually serve as the platform for
creating a single-view-of-student, accessing and integrating
outside data, such as census data, data from statewide longitudinal
data systems and other government and public data sets to help
Illinois State attract and recruit students who will most likely
benefit from attending the university.
"Ensuring that students achieve success in college and in their
careers is the overriding goal of higher education," said Amit
Walia, senior vice president and general manager, Data Integration
and Data Security, Informatica. "Illinois State is an example of a
university that is aggressively putting in the modern data systems
and data processes to support analytics, that will further its
ability to serve students and help them realize their full academic
potential, sculpt relevant instructional programs, and keep the
institution aligned with student and societal needs."
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About Informatica
Informatica Corporation (Nasdaq:INFA) is the world's number one
independent provider of software. Organizations around the
world rely on Informatica to realize their information potential
and drive top business imperatives. Informatica Vibe, the
industry's first and only embeddable virtual data machine (VDM),
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Informatica Corporation
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