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Data Management Platform for Higher Education
Make better decisions with an AI-powered data management platform designed for higher education
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Transforming Campus Data Strategy for Our Partners

250+

partner institutions

$115K

year-one savings from using Edify to support Enterprise Resource Planning system replacements at a small public university

75%

reduction in time required to submit IPEDS surveys at a small public university

Meet Edify

Edify is an AI-powered higher education data management platform that combines robust data warehousing with user-friendly analytics tools to deliver real-time insights, empowering you to make data-driven decisions with speed and confidence. Simplify reporting, optimize data governance for higher education, and combat enrollment challenges with Edify’s transformative approach to data management and institutional data analytics.

Access, Warehousing, and Integration

Bring Your Data Together

Edify is a cloud-native, secure, infinitely scalable data lake and data warehouse for higher education, built to support critical institutional data initiatives. Edify can ingest data through a library of pre-build higher ed system connectors or custom extractions.

Break down silos and unlock advanced capabilities like AI and predictive modeling with a platform designed for the future of institutional analytics.

Data access, warehousing, and integration features include:

  • Downstream data delivery
  • System integration
  • Data transformation
  • Snapshotting
  • Permissions management
  • Data processing logs and monitoring
Data Governance

Build a Culture of Data Confidence

Keep your data organized, accurate, and well-documented with tools based on higher education best practices and our team’s experience with thousands of data integrations of higher ed data systems. Edify provides data governance solutions for universities to ensure your data is trustworthy, reliable, and ready to use for analytics or AI.

Edify’s data governance capabilities include:

  • Transparent and higher-ed specific data model
  • Out-of-the-box, customizable data and metadata definitions
  • Data catalog
  • Data lineage
Reporting And Analytics

Empower Your Team with Insight

Edify includes self-service analytics to drive efficiency and support your institution’s decision-making. Our higher education data analytics solution supports no- or low-code data exploration, analysis, and operational reporting, as well as data visualization through your preferred business intelligence tools.

Your team can pursue self-service predictive modeling and access pre-built and customizable analytic workspaces, known as “accelerators,” for strategic priorities like course planning or identifying the relationship between financial aid and student success.

AI-Powered Data Management

AI Capabilities to Increase Your Team’s Productivity

Edify’s suite of AI features helps your team work more efficiently. Get answers to questions in the moment and empower data consumers with increased confidence to make decisions faster.

Find, access, and report on trusted data in a matter of minutes with Edify’s AI capabilities:

  • Query Assist: Turn a simple prompt into data-rich reports without needing to write code from scratch.
  • Data Search Assist: Find the data and data context you need using plain-language prompts.
  • SQL Explainer: Translate SQL statements into easy-to-read explanations.

Want to see a demo of our AI-powered data management platform for higher ed? Connect with our team now.

Professional Service Hours

Expand Your Team's Capacity

Edify’s experts meet you where you are , providing tailored services to simplify higher education data management. Our experienced team of higher education data scientists, data architects, integration engineers, programmers, and business process experts understand your unique environment and goals and can reduce strain on your staff while delivering results. Your use of Edify can be self-service, partially managed, or fully managed by EAB.

Professional service hours can be used for:

  • Integration services
  • Data science and analysis
  • Process consulting
  • Strategy and culture support
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We are setting up a consistent and repeatable integration environment where changing an integration is easy. The ability to extend the value of my team is priceless.

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JIM BURKE, CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICER

JOHN CARROLL UNIVERSITY
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Edify empowers our team to maximize the value of our expertise by reducing the time spent on manual tasks. It enables us to leverage our specialized skills and focus on using the data to support institutional decision-making.

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Katie Tharp, AVP of Institutional Effectiveness and Decision Support

Aurora University
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Without the infrastructure of Edify, strategic analyses are too labor-intensive. You’re saving us having to hire a lot more staff.

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ASSOCIATE VICE PRESIDENT OF STRATEGIC PLANNING AND ANALYSIS

UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA
Meet the Edify Team

Each of our partners works with a dedicated Strategic Leader who learns your organization and culture to steer your team to the right answers and resources. Our higher ed experts become an extension of your leadership team and expand the capacity of what you can accomplish.

Talk to Our Team
Lars Waldo

Managing Director, Data Science

Specialties Student Success, Information Technology, Data and Analytics
Virgilio Larralde
Virgilio Larralde

Senior Director, Engineering

Specialties Enrollment Strategy, College and University Strategy, Data Governance, IT Governance, Admissions, Data and Analytics, At-Risk Students

Data-Enabled Institutions

With Edify, colleges and universities are connecting data from across campus for better and faster decisions. Hear one of our partners describe the impact of the partnership in his own words, including how they were able to act fast to avoid a major state funding loss.

Ready to get started with Edify?

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