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Data Analytics for Higher Education

A comprehensive data platform optimized for AI and built to uncover actionable insights that drive enrollment and retention, academic program efficiency, and revenue.

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DATA MANAGEMENT, STORAGE, AND MODERNIZATION

Unify your data with HelioCampus

With today's high stakes, your institution can't afford to be held back by conflicting, siloed data. You need a modern data platform that doesn't just store data, but makes it accessible and actionable. Our world class, 3-tiered data architecture is built just for higher ed, ensuring you can scale data operations and accelerate decision-making to drive enrollment, improve student success and retention, and grow net tuition revenue.

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Cloud-native and built to scale

Adapt to growth, handle data spikes automatically, reduce on-prem management costs, and free IT for innovation.

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Flexible data formatting

Integrate various systems–SIS, LMS, CRM, and more–and manage diverse data types to enhance cross-disciplinary collaboration.

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3-tiered data structure

Ensure data consistency and flexible access for users with raw, processed, and summary data layers.

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Semantic layer for accessible insights

Translate complex data into meaningful concepts, enabling AI-based analytics tools.

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Advanced analytics & AI capabilities

Predict patterns, detect at-risk students, and enable data-informed decisions through AI-driven insights.

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Self-service functionality

Empower users to access and analyze data independently, enhancing efficiency and reducing IT/IR bottlenecks.

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DATA MODELS, GOVERNANCE, AI READINESS

Destroy data doubt with Theia

Charting your path forward is both a science and an art. Theia, our trusted data layer, contextualizes your data within your institution's unique landscape so that you can make decisions with confidence.

More power, more possibilities

In Greek mythology, Theia is the goddess of light and vision. Our firefly, Theia, represents our trusted data layer, which helps to light the way and provides visibility as you navigate your data and today's high stakes.

Decades of higher ed data analytics expertise

Theia's data models put decades of relationship mapping and integration perfecting within reach. The models provide intuitive, logical relationships and integrations between and within data sources that are specifically built for reporting.

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NEW! Embedded data governance with Analytics Console

Ensure proper data hygiene, transparency, and visibility to build a trusted single source of truth for your institution. Embedded data governance through Analytics Console enables you to document and detail the ins and outs of your data - from original source to campus-specific definitions.

 

A built-in instruction manual for AI tools

Theia's Semantic Layer helps AI tools understand the content, table definitions, and grain of the data set. It provides sample queries, metric definitions and calculations, and translates source system jargon into meaningful information. In short, Theia's semantic layer is a built-in instruction manual for today and tomorrow's AI tools.

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Mission critical analyses at your fingertips

Once we've established your data architecture, you choose your priority: strategic enrollment management or academic portfolio analysis. Our team of expert analysts and data scientists support your ongoing work to ensure you're not left with an empty infrastructure devoid of insights.

Optimize enrollment, financial aid, student success, and retention

Student Lifecycle

Institutions that connect the dots across admissions, enrollment, financial aid, and retention are better poised to take effective action. Our core playbooks provide you with the analyses you need to diagnose, manage, and optimize your student lifecycle.

  • Target your enrollment and tuition revenue provides scenario planning and forecasting to align budgets, financial aid, and recruiting strategies.

  • Optimize admissions & financial aid ensures you can manage unmet need and leverage financial aid to maximize yield and retention.

  • Increase retention helps you understand student segmentation and risk scoring to advance retention and refine intervention strategies.
  • Achieve academic & course success identifies courses most important for student success so you can optimize for persistence.

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Uncover program opportunities for growth or reallocation

Academic Performance Management

Centralize your enrollment and instruction data to better manage your academic portfolio and optimize for efficiencies. HelioCampus supports:

  • Manage instructor activity & optimize capacity highlights opportunities to redeploy faculty and reduce admin time.

  • Optimize course scheduling pinpoints effiencies in alignment with student demand.

  • Strategic & institutional planning identifies potential levers to optimize and right-size department budgets.

  • Financial performance of the academic portfolio helps you understand the margin profile of programs and manage your portfolio.

Learn More about Academic Performance Management

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Optimize enrollment, financial aid, student success, and retention

Student Lifecycle

Institutions that connect the dots across admissions, enrollment, financial aid, and retention are better poised to take effective action. Our core playbooks provide you with the analyses you need to diagnose, manage, and optimize your student lifecycle.

  • Target your enrollment and tuition revenue provides scenario planning and forecasting to align budgets, financial aid, and recruiting strategies.

  • Optimize admissions & financial aid ensures you can manage unmet need and leverage financial aid to maximize yield and retention.

  • Increase retention helps you understand student segmentation and risk scoring to advance retention and refine intervention strategies.
  • Achieve academic & course success identifies courses most important for student success so you can optimize for persistence.

Learn More about Student Lifecycle

Dashboard of HelioCampus Retention Analysis

Uncover program opportunities for growth or reallocation

Academic Performance Management

Centralize your enrollment and instruction data to better manage your academic portfolio and optimize for efficiencies. HelioCampus supports:

  • Manage instructor activity & optimize capacity highlights opportunities to redeploy faculty and reduce admin time.

  • Optimize course scheduling pinpoints effiencies in alignment with student demand.

  • Strategic & institutional planning identifies potential levers to optimize and right-size department budgets.

  • Financial performance of the academic portfolio helps you understand the margin profile of programs and manage your portfolio.

Learn More about Academic Performance Management

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Why HelioCampus?

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Comprehensive Data Architecture

Only HelioCampus offers a complete data platform that takes you beyond the data lake to organize data and establish complex business rules that power high quality, consistent analysis. Our standardized approach to build processed and summary data layers leaves room for customization while guaranteeing a successful launch within 12 months.

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Theia, Our Trusted Data Layer

Theia unites our powerful data models, semantic layer, and embedded data governance through Analytics Console to appropriately contextualize your institution's unique landscape and bring confidence to your data. With Theia, you achieve the gold standard for actionable, trustworthy data insights.

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Unique Higher Ed Perspective

Our data analysts and scientists bring decades of higher ed specific expertise to every client's challenge. All clients receive ongoing data science services included, which ensures your success before, during, and after your data platform launch.

See how HelioCampus can help your institution do more with data.

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Your data. Our responsibility.

Our clients trust us with their data so that they can navigate today's high stakes. We have maintained exceptional privacy and security standards since our inception, and we actively update our standards and practices to ensure your data is safeguarded as we enter the age of AI, and beyond.

 

Register for our monthly Foundations of Confidence series!

Where data leads, confidence follows. Our monthly webinar series is designed to help you move forward with precision, speed, and agility when making decisions that directly impact students’ experience and success. We focus on practical applications for mission-critical analyses, as well as the processes and data governance practices required to ensure data are trusted, actionable, and AI-ready.

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See HelioCampus Data Analytics success stories

Powering innovation through data

Vice Provost for Strategy & Innovation at University of South Carolina Shannon Means shares how HelioCampus unites the flagship institution with a modern data platform and enables innovation through university-wide insights.

Building a Data Strategy for Higher Education

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Unlocking Financial Sustainability through Data

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Accelerating a Culture of Data Governance & Data-Informed Decisions

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