CASE STUDY

Transforming Academic Efficiency: Improving Data Quality by 25%

Industry

Education

Work Done

Data Analytics, Business Intelligence,

Introduction

There is a continuous trend of massive information management in educational establishments. It includes teaching material, research data, and administration. This study reveals how the issue of data management within academic institutions was tackled, it presents an example of how all these problems were solved.

Client Background

The client is running a popular university that focuses on academic excellence as well as research writing. The institute experienced difficulties in managing its academic data effectively. Taking into account a wide variety of institutes and research centers, the university found multiple data silos, inconsistency in data quality, and difficulties related to scalability in the existing data management systems.

Renowned for its extensive research and highly esteemed academic programs, the university can be proud of its medical campus of 200 acres, having more than 10 thousand students from all over the world studying around 50 departments and research centers focusing on such a wide range of topics as computer science, electronics, environment, and others.

Challenges Faced

The university encountered several challenges related to academic data management:

Data Silos

The existence of data silos across various departments and research centers hindered collaboration and accessibility, resulting in several specific issues:

Hindered Research Collaboration: The interdisciplinary projects of different researchers suffered data accessibility problems. They were not able to get and share critical data available to their collaborators as a result. For example, one group which are looking into climate change could find difficulty accessing the relevant datasets from the environmental science department because of the data silos.
Inefficient Decision-Making: Academicians encountered trouble getting an overall picture of the university’s operations and performance indices as the data was often spread out between multiple source systems. Due to lack of visibility the decision-making process was getting hampered and the strategic planning activities like resource allocation, and program development, as the information holders were unable to access unified and up-to-date data.

Data Quality

The inconsistency and lack of integrity in academic data posed significant challenges, impacting various aspects of university operations:

Reporting Errors: Due to data mismanagement, there were inaccuracies in reporting which may further lead to submission of unreliable reports to the concerning/regulatory bodies .
Compromised Research Findings: Data reliability was low and regulation was comparatively weak. Therefore, they gained a reputation mostly through unethical practices arriving at untrustworthy research results. It also jeopardized the image of the university.

Scalability

The limitations of traditional data management systems had tangible repercussions for the university’s ability to adapt and grow:

Performance Degradation: Although the volumes of academic data earlier had almost no impact on the regular systems. Now, the app cannot bear the additional load, the query time of computing increases considerably in peak time and the system stops responding.
Storage Constraints: The limited storage ability of the present infrastructure has caused restrictions on both data storing and data preserving and forced the university to reorganize its strategy to cut the data volume and weight.

How Clients Came to Know About GrowExx

The university obtained Information about GrowExx through industry referrals and research work done on firms that specialize in data management analytics.

Why the Client Approached Us

Knowing GrowExx’s expertise in EdTech, especially in data analysis and intelligence, the educational institution chose GrowExx for a data analytics consulting service. GrowExx had experience setting up data storages of centralized data repositories and state-of-the-art analytics platforms which made it well experienced in solving the university data problems.

Discovery Meeting with GrowExx

The first meeting with the university described its difficulties related to data management. Having extensive expertise in data science, data management, and intelligence, GrowExx undertook to scrutinize the current data infrastructures, workflows, and systems.

Involvement of GrowExx

GrowExx collaborated closely with the university’s stakeholders to design and implemented a comprehensive solution for revolutionizing academic data management:

Data Integration: The essential point was to find one place to store all the data which are at different places.
Advanced Analytics: GrowExx contributed to designing an advanced system that utilizes sensors and analytics to predict things with the help of data. It will help the university to make good decisions.

Results

The implementation of advanced academic data analytics solution by GrowExx yielded significant outcomes for the university, as evidenced by the following concrete examples and metrics:

Improved Data Accessibility: Academic data acquisition was centralized which raised the data accessibility rate by 40%. This led to an uplift in data usage among several departments and research institutions.
The building of a central repository assures the improvement of data analysis and decision-making processes. Thus, there is no need to accumulate the relevant data hours for an average of 30% of cases.
Enhanced Data Quality: A data governance framework has been shown to increase the quality of data by 25%, which was done by reducing the number of validation errors and inconsistencies to the lowest levels.
Adopting the data quality norms and automated confirmation regulation brought about a reduction in the number of data integrity issues by 20%. This is how reliable data has become for the decision- making processes and their trust level has increased dramatically as well.
Scalable Infrastructure: The data lake turned into the base that has the facility to manage and process millions of academic data points. Thus, by this logical cumulative process, the university was able to register a 50% increase in data storage capacity, thus, a ground for future development and innovation initiatives grew speedily without any hindrance.
The implementation of holistic data platforms and elevated structures increased stability by 40%. In turn, this reduced crash incidences and grades of service outages that occurred during peak periods to a minimum, enabling uninterrupted access to critical academic information.
Innovative Insights: With the help of data analytics technologies, the university managed to extract a number of useful recommendations, which in turn led to reforming teaching, research, and students’ academic services. This, for example, was accomplished by building a predictive model that uses analytics to detect students who are at imminent risk early and in such ways increased the course retention rate by 15%.

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Conclusion

The GrowExx’s services allowed the university not only to fight data problems in the short term but also to build a basis for future victories. Data sources, quality of data, and analytical tools are the key characteristics of up-to-date educational progress. As Universities are developing, Growexx is a really reliable partner. It facilitates imaginative thinking and stimulates cooperation as well as the universities’ mission to keep on getting better.

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How Clients Came to Know About GrowExx

Why the Client Approached Us

Discovery Meeting with GrowExx

Involvement of GrowExx

Results

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Conclusion

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Transforming Academic Efficiency: Improving Data Quality by 25%

Introduction

Client Background

Challenges Faced

How Clients Came to Know About GrowExx

Why the Client Approached Us

Discovery Meeting with GrowExx

Involvement of GrowExx

Results

Technologies used

Conclusion

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