What is EAB Edify?
Edify is a data and analytics solution specifically designed for higher education institutions. According to the vendor, it aims to simplify the management of higher education data by providing a single solution for data access, warehousing, governance, reporting, and analytics. Edify is intended for use by higher education institutions of all sizes, including colleges and universities. It is used by various professionals in the higher education industry, such as administrators, enrollment managers, institutional researchers, data analysts, and IT professionals.
Key Features
Data Access And Warehousing: According to the vendor, Edify offers a cloud-native, secure, and infinitely scalable data lake and higher education data warehouse. It supports data ingestion through a library of pre-built connectors or custom extraction, and provides capabilities for downstream data delivery, system integration, data transformation, and snapshotting.
Data Governance: The vendor claims that Edify allows teams to implement best-practice rules and validations for education data management. It includes tools for data dictionary creation, data lineage, permissions management, and data processing logs and monitoring. Edify aims to ensure a single source of truth with a transparent and higher-ed specific data model.
Reporting And Analytics: Edify provides self-service, custom, and pre-built analytics to drive efficiency and support decision-making, as per the vendor. It supports no- or low-code data exploration, analysis, and ad hoc reporting. Additionally, it offers data visualization through preferred business intelligence tools and enables self-service predictive modeling and access to pre-built and customizable analytics.