To piece together a student's full picture, staff at one of Florida's largest school districts had more than 30 different applications and databases to work across. Information went out of date. The same reports got recreated over and over, because different departments had no way of knowing the work had already been done.
The cost wasn't just wasted staff time. It was slower answers for the questions that matter most: is this student on track, and what do they need right now to get there.
Staff no longer piece together a student's picture from scattered systems. A single, centralized data warehouse now gives them one accurate, up-to-date source to work from, so reporting that used to mean reconciling numbers from multiple places now starts from data everyone already trusts.
Staff used to recreate the same data transformations by hand for every report, sometimes without knowing another department had already built the same one. Automated pipelines now handle that work, freeing up staff time for what actually needs a person: supporting students directly.
A new data governance program, backed by 15 tailored policies, ensures only authorized staff can access sensitive student information. Since putting it in place, the district has seen a 20% reduction in data discrepancies, giving staff more confidence in the reports they rely on to support students.
A new data catalog acts like a map of everything the district collects, so staff no longer waste time hunting for the right data or accidentally duplicating a report that already exists.