Indiana University is a multi-campus public university with a combined student body of more than 110,000 students.
A university system of this size deals with enormous amounts of data, and IU's data was stored across numerous siloed systems, making it extremely time-consuming to gather and analyze. So when IU embarked on a Decision Support Initiative to connect these multiple systems to a single interface, the university chose the Denodo Platform to make it possible.
Seamless Unity
With its data virtualization capabilities, the Denodo Platform enabled IU to build out a logical data warehouse, which can connect to a wide variety of modern data sources, such as cloud sources, without requiring physical replication. It also establishes a central point for managing intercampus authentication and governance. Through the new BI infrastructure, IU successfully created powerful, real-time visualizations, enabled self-service data discovery, supplied grass-roots data governance, and turned the tide towards better decision making.
“There was visible amazement and almost a gasp in the room when [AM360, one of the new self-service apps] was recently presented to the deans,” said Brad Wheeler, CIO and vice president for IT. “They immediately began their own self-directed exploration on a wealth of data they had never seen before, credibly integrated in real-time.”