Industries · Higher Education
Gain a 360° view of the student journey — from prospect to alum.
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Student and academic engagement data is everywhere, but rarely connected. Institutions need more than dashboards; they need insight ecosystems that guide enrolments, improve retention, and build lifelong alumni relationships.
Decision Foundry helps universities and education institutions modernize their data operations, unify student data, and activate intelligence that drives measurable outcomes across admissions, academics and learning.
CRMs, LMS, Student Information Systems and marketing systems operate in silos, limiting visibility into the full student lifecycle.
Inconsistent tagging, manual campaign tracking, and unclear naming conventions disrupt reporting and ROI measurement.
Slow insight delivery prevents timely action in recruitment, counselling or skill-development.
Disconnected engagement tracking makes it difficult to identify which campaigns or touchpoints drive enrollments and retention.
Limited segmentation and outdated systems hinder tailored student experiences.
We partner with institutions to turn data complexity into clarity. Our end-to-end data framework helps education teams connect, govern and activate insights across admissions, retention and engagement as well as fees and expense management.
Establish clean, consistent, and privacy-compliant data environments. Standardize campaign tracking and student data collection across platforms. Eliminate discrepancies and data gaps with automated quality checks.
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Create a single, unified source of truth across multiple student interaction systems. Integrate CRM, LMS and financial data into modern, cloud-native platforms. Implement master data management and centralized governance.
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Turn your unified data into real-time insights and predictive outcomes. Apply AI and machine learning to forecast enrollment yield, identify at-risk students and enable targeted interventions through counselors. Use attribution modeling and performance dashboards to track campaigns that deliver real ROI.
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Empower engagement across the student lifecycle with Salesforce Education Cloud. Use AI-powered recommendations to enable counselors to gain full visibility into conversion, retention and student outcomes.
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Maintains consistent definitions and metadata across all departments.
Modernizes legacy systems to cloud-native, AI-ready environments.
Common Questions
Six common challenge patterns we address. (1) Fragmented data ecosystem across SIS, LMS, CRM, marketing tools. (2) Poor data quality and inconsistent taxonomy. (3) Reporting that arrives too late to act on. (4) No scoring model for prospect intent. (5) Drop-off that goes unnoticed in the funnel. (6) Staff buried in admin work that should be automated. Plus enrolment forecasting, retention analytics, and outcome reporting.
Higher education institutions (universities, colleges, business schools), K-12 organisations, edtech companies, and professional / continuing education providers. We're active across both public and private institutions, in the US and internationally. Use cases range from enrolment management and retention analytics to alumni engagement and outcome reporting.
FERPA-aligned data infrastructure is foundational. Role-based access tied to legitimate educational interest, audit logging, data residency rules, encryption-at-rest-and-transit, and explicit consent management for international students under GDPR. Most education data platforms we engage have FERPA gaps; addressing them is usually part of the initial architecture work.
Yes. We're a Salesforce SELECT partner with Education Cloud experience. We also integrate with Slate, Ellucian Banner, Workday Student, Anthology, and custom SIS systems via standard ETL into Snowflake / Databricks for analytics. Prospect-to-applicant-to-student-to-alumni data flows are the backbone of education analytics; we have proven patterns.
A focused engagement (enrolment scoring model, retention dashboards, or admissions analytics rebuild) typically runs 2–4 months. Enterprise programs (institution-wide data platform + multiple analytics workstreams + change management) run 6–12 months. We time go-lives around academic calendars — never mid-enrolment cycle.
Cross-stack credentials applicable to education — Salesforce SELECT (Education Cloud), Snowflake Select, Tableau Premier — plus delivery experience with higher-ed and K-12 institutions. We're not an education-only consultancy; the cross-industry pattern recognition (especially from retail and financial services) brings demonstrable lifts in enrolment and retention.