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Title
Flinders University builds a centralized analytics portal on Databricks for near real-time student insights
…cking. Leveraging Delta Lake as the foundation of their lakehouse architecture, the team developed the Flinders Intelligence Portal (FLIP), a centralized self-service portal boasting a sleek, intuitive user interface that enables access to federated dat…
Description
Flinders University used the Databricks Data + AI Platform on Microsoft Azure, with Delta Lake and MLflow, to build the Flinders Intelligence Portal (FLIP), a centralized self-service analytics portal replacing week-long manual data requests with near real-time reporting on student enrollment, well-being and performance.
…ive way for management to derive clear and ongoing meaningful insights from it. Gaining access to information was a slow and tedious process — usually taking up to a week — due to their legacy on-premises infrastructure. All requests for data were sent to the analytics team and there was often uncer…
Company
Flinders University
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Industry
Education
…niversity toward their strategic goals and aspirations. Share this post Details Industry : Education , Public Sector Use Case : Data Science , Data Engineering Cloud : Azure Product : Delta Lake ,…
Problem
With a student population of over 25,000, Flinders University's large volumes of siloed student, financial, research and education data hindered near real-time insight; gaining access to information was slow, usually taking up to a week, due to legacy on-premises infrastructure, and there was often uncertainty around the reliability and completeness of the resulting data.
…ransform the way they make decisions. Disorganized data that no one could trust With a student population of over 25,000, Flinders University was dealing with large amounts of student, financial, research and education data with no centralized and intuitive way for management to derive clear and ongoin…
Solution
Flinders adopted Microsoft Azure and the Databricks Data + AI Platform, using Delta Lake as the foundation of its lakehouse architecture to build the Flinders Intelligence Portal (FLIP), a centralized self-service analytics portal, alongside Power BI and Azure Data Factory; the Databricks platform along with MLflow also lets the team build, train, manage and deploy machine learning and deep learning models at scale.
…real-time analysis and a clear view of how the important elements are tracking. Leveraging Delta Lake as the foundation of their lakehouse architecture, the team developed the Flinders Intelligence Portal (FLIP), a centralized self-service portal boasting a sleek, intuitive user interface t…
Business value
University management can now gain a clear, consistent view of student enrollment with daily reports that used to take up to a week to generate, and the analytics team runs predictive models to streamline automation and model delivery around student behaviors, student success and financial modeling; Databricks also helped reduce technology costs and increase capacity, scale, performance and capability.
…oject’s success.” Uplifting of data science capabilities to transform higher ed University management is now able to gain a clear, consistent view of student enrollment with daily reports that used to take up to a week to generate. This has enabled them to actively manage students locally and internationally,…
AI capabilities
Predictive Analytics, Machine Learning
…d, train, manage and deploy machine learning and deep learning models at scale, enabling the analytics team at Flinders to run predictive models and streamline automation and model delivery around student behaviors, student success and financial modeling. By providing Flinders with a solution that turns their data into meaningful in…
Technology
Databricks Data + AI Platform, Delta Lake, Power BI, Azure Data Factory, MLflow, Microsoft Azure, Agent Bricks
…of empowerment. “This has been a massive leap in technology for the university. The Databricks platform alongside Power BI and Azure Data Factory make an incredibly powerful combination,” said Mick. “The work that Databricks [and Microsoft] did to integrate the var…
Deployment model
Cloud (Microsoft Azure)
…Industry : Education , Public Sector Use Case : Data Science , Data Engineering Cloud : Azure Product : Delta Lake , Agent Bricks Ready to get started? Try Databricks for fr…
Deployment options
cloud
…Industry : Education , Public Sector Use Case : Data Science , Data Engineering Cloud : Azure Product : Delta Lake , Agent Bricks Ready to get started? Try Databricks for fr…
Headline outcome
…oject’s success.” Uplifting of data science capabilities to transform higher ed University management is now able to gain a clear, consistent view of student enrollment with daily reports that used to take up to a week to generate. This has enabled them to actively manage students locally and internationally,…
Use case type
Analytics augmentation
…cking. Leveraging Delta Lake as the foundation of their lakehouse architecture, the team developed the Flinders Intelligence Portal (FLIP), a centralized self-service portal boasting a sleek, intuitive user interface that enables access to federated data for all forms of analytics. Staff members from colleges across the university now have direct, instant acc…
