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Case Study

Largest-Education-Company

This Company Uses Astera to Transform Student Recordkeeping Process.

Background

The world’s largest education network company works to empower young people by providing the technological resources, mentorship and support that many students need to pursue college and career training opportunities. With nearly 20 million registered learners, including 130,000 employers and over 4,000 educational institutions, this company, based in Boston, MA, is a national leader in developing customized district-wide, state-wide, national, and international web-based applications for students as they migrate through the learning lifecycle. 

Use Case

The Network company dealt with large batches of disparate data from different school districts and states that needed to be consolidated and synchronized into individual student directories. 

 

The Network company needed an integration platform that would enable it to manage disparate student data and migrate it in a timely, error-free manner, especially since small errors on students’ records could result in qualified students being denied important opportunities. It was apparent that the company needed a tool to consolidate large batches of data and cleanse them so that each student’s data was amassed into a format compatible with the high school-to-college transition and beyond. The process required data quality checks, data conversion, and automation – all in one platform. 

Enter Astera

After evaluating several data integration platforms, the business team chose Astera because it exceeded their expectations thanks to its exceptional usability, first-class functionality, and affordability. 

Profile

The world’s largest education network company provides web apps that permit students, teachers, counsellors, and employers to track their individual educational pursuits.   

Industry

Education

Use Case

The Network company wanted a single platform that provided data quality checks, data conversion, and automation.

Results

Using Astera, the Network company was able to synchronize, migrate, cleanse, and transform student data into a format compatible with their college and career planning services and platforms.   

“Astera is much more user friendly and requires less training. For someone who doesn’t have much training, SQL, etc., Astera’s tool is much easier to learn. I like that Astera is on the element level and that you have all the elements as opposed to SSIS where everything is object and script based. Utilizing it to review data quality rules, look up reference codes, transform data, and clean large batches of data, while automating the entire process, permits us to work with the data and make sure it’s up to specifications.”
— Laurence Duggan, Business Analyst

As Astera offers a high-performance, scalable data integration platform, it allowed the education network company to keep up with advanced data needs. Powered by an enterprise-grade, parallel processing engine, Astera offered the company data syncing, mapping, transformation, parsing, and extraction capabilities, all through a single platform. 

Astera, with its drag-and-drop functionality, was as easy to use for the company’s business users as it was for the IT staff, thereby shortening the training period and decreasing high training expenditures. The company currently uses Astera to synchronize, migrate, cleanse, and transform student data into a format compatible with their college and career planning services and platforms. 

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Authors:

  • Irfan Ahmed