Information Technology

Estudias Enterprise is helping IT Administrators improve security, centralize information and reduce maintenance costs through better data management.

Through the Data Warehousing and Student Relationship Management modules in Estudias Enterprise, IT Administrators have been able to:

Empower End-users
End-users can easily run powerful ad-hoc queries and create new reports, student groups and alerts using the Estudias Enterprise client or any other ODBC-compliant software, while data remains stored securely on a central server.
Consolidate Information Silos
Centralize student information, close security holes and reduce maintenance costs by moving information from Excel files, proprietary programs and Access databases to a secure, centralized database where information is subject to fine-grained permissions and auditing.
Control Permissions
Set fine-grained access levels to information restricting specific users/groups to certain fields, tables, department or student characteristics.
Improve Auditing
Estudias Enterprise allows open, regulated access to information through Excel, SPSS or any ODBC-compliant software, all subject to the same, server-based permissions and auditing framework.
Improve Data and Report Quality
IT Administrators know that reports generated from dirty data are not useful. Estudias Enterprise can recognize inconsistent/incorrect data and automatically send alerts to those responsible for fixing them. Changes to historical data on the student information system (possibly unauthorized) can be identified as well.
Increase Performance
Move the reporting burden off of your student information system to Estudias Enterprise. The optimized data model runs even the most complicated queries in seconds. Self-optimizing, Estudias Enterprise learns which queries are used most often and automatically optimizes them.
Reduce Training
Instead of retraining staff every time your student information system changes, simply change the way the text files are generated. Users continue seeing the the same interface. Reports never have to be re-written.

Additional Information

These documents provide a good introduction to Estudias Enterprise as well as a wealth of information that may help you even if you decide to implement your own solution.

Data warehousing projects can easily cost over $1 million. ZogoTech's approach is far less expensive and has a higher success rate.
ZogoTech's approach to data warehousing
The Estudias Enterprise data warehouse is much more powerful than simply adding a reporting solution to your ERP.
Reporting Comparison
Considering building your own data warehouse internally? This document can help you make a cost-effective decision.
Build or Buy?
Security has become one of the most important priorities for colleges and universities.
Improving Security with Estudias Enterprise

Architecture

Delve more deeply into the major components of Estudias Enterprise.
Estudias Enterprise Architecture
Estudias Enterprise is built on a very open architecture with standard tools and protocols. This allows a high degree of customization at every point in the process.
Estudias Enterprise Open Architecture
ETL (or Extract Transform Load) modules are one of the most challenging aspects of a data warehousing project. Many data warehousing projects stall at this stage.
ZogoTech's ETL approach
Estudias is a highly available, robust, low-maintenance application.
Maintaining Estudias Enterprise

Presentation

Estudias Enterprise Technical Overview
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Information Technology Resource Center

What Your Organization Should Be Spending for Information Security
Statistical information on security spending is uncertain and often unreliable. In general, Gartner recommends three to six percent of total IT spending as a guideline; however, there are many variables that will affect these numbers. (Gartner)

University of California at Merced Implements User Provisioning to Manage User Access
To attend to the unique needs of its many users, UC Merced has started automating its user provisioning processes. By assigning an electronic identity to each individual, the university will be able to manage user access and keep up with any role and status changes. (Gartner)

Information Technology

Empower End-users

Consolidate Information Silos

Control Permissions

Improve Auditing

Improve Data and Report Quality

Increase Performance

Reduce Training

Additional Information

Architecture

Presentation

Information Technology Resource Center