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Historically higher ed institutions have struggled to capture, access, understand, and report on their data to achieve performance goals such as enrollment, retention, and student success. Attendees learned how Tableau makes it simple to visualize key performance metrics, such as enrollment data to understand trends, patterns, and potential challenges that impact student success.

During this webinar, attendees: 

  • Heard use cases from real-world institutions turning data into actionable insights
  • Learned how to use data to understand student behaviors and outcomes, optimize the admissions and enrollment process, and improve the university experience
  • Discover how analytics programs can help meet enrollment targets, retain existing students, and see them through to graduation

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Data is a critical asset for all organizations. Managing data and using it to gain business insights is essential for strategic advantage. Data warehouses and data lakes are both popular approaches to data storage, but the definitions, uses, and strategies for each can be blurred.

This webinar answers what’s the difference between data warehouses and data lakes by defining both terms, exploring their uses, and showing all factors that should be taken into consideration when deciding the best fit for your organization’s needs by looking at accessibility, cost, and more.

Attendees will leave with a clear understanding of data warehouses, data lakes, and will be equipped with the right tools to be able to do more with data and make informed decisions.

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The force of the pandemic brought significant change to work habits, regulations, supply chains and business models. Many organizations now find their existing structure and ways of operating inadequate for today’s environment.

This session explores the way work has changed and how change management and organization design have impacted digital transformation and business models for faster decision-making. Attendees will leave with understanding the connection between culture, change, and organization design, demonstrated through real world examples, making these components a natural way of working. 

Attendees will learn about:

  • Significant changes to work habits
  • Trends, themes, and implications for companies for the future
  • Leader skill sets and mindsets for future success

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Predictive analytics with machine learning (ML) is growing rapidly across organizations of all sizes. However, many organizations face the same challenge when approaching applied ML: Big Data. When data becomes excessively large, developing and automating an ML workflow can feel like an impossible task. Fortunately, the key to success is simple. You just need the right toolkit!

Join this session, hosted by Avaap, to see how AWS, StreamSets, Snowflake, and Tableau enable a high-performance machine learning workflow built on 100 million eCommerce events.

Attendees will learn how:

  • StreamSets can deliver high-speed streaming of large datasets
  • Snowflake can provide an all-purpose analytics backbone for data engineering and model deployment
  • Tableau can enable instant business value via advanced analytics visualization

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Adoption of advanced analytics can have a lasting effect on an organization’s resilience. When it comes to change initiatives, often what distinguishes companies that prevail from those who struggle is the ability to measure and manage change. Read this executive brief to learn how your organization can begin applying change analytics to support project success and move through change better and faster.

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Government organizations are the second biggest targets of fraud after financial institutions. Not only does fraud impact the organization, but it impacts citizens and their trust in government. In 2021, $86 billion dollars of PPP loans found its way into the hands of fraudsters. On average, it takes almost two years to detect fraud when there is more than one conspirator, and those committing fraud are getting smarter every day, finding ways to go undetected.

Watch this webinar with experts from Avaap and Tableau to learn how data visualization and advanced analytics can be used to detect fraud, highlighting potentially fraudulent activities, so investigators can spend time and resources on situations that are more likely to be fraudulent.

Attendees will learn:
– How data visualization dashboards make it easy to identify fraud with drill-down features
– How to set up KPIs to detect fraud, such as duplicate addresses, phone numbers, and more
– How to stand up your own fraud detection dashboard

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Leadership transitions are risky endeavors for individuals and their organizations. To make the transition easier, leverage these actions and learn from our experience in preparing individuals and organizations for transition.

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Project delays or changes to project schedules can happen due to budget constraints, resourcing issues, scope changes, or other unexpected events. As a Change Manager, what should you do when your go-live date changes? Use this checklist to organize your thoughts and next steps to help you take action when your go-live date changes.

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Executive transitions are high stakes for leaders and their institutions. This session helps new leaders and employees working with new leaders to navigate transition by learning how to identify and assess opportunities and risks in guiding their institution through change initiatives. Presenters will draw from real-world experiences on strategies fully applicable to executive transitions. 

Learning Objectives:

  • Understand individual, institutional, and cultural factors associated with senior level transitions in higher education 
  • Identify and assess priorities for successful transformation 
  • Implement change management strategies to achieve change initiatives  

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