Edify
Transform Your Data to Fuel Confident Decisions
250+
partner institutions
100s
of FTE hours saved
90%
average percent faster to build reports with Edify data
Meet Edify
Edify is an AI-powered data management platform that combines user-friendly analytics, data governance, data warehousing, and expert support so that you can unify, trust, and activate your data. What if you could ask any question of your campus data and get a clear answer? Edify makes it possible.
Designed specifically for higher education and trusted by over 250 institutions, Edify lets you access reliable data at your fingertips, enable strategic decisions across campus, and activate AI. Edify’s transformative approach to managing campus data helps colleges and universities of all types make decisions at every level with speed and confidence.
Edify Is Your Campus Data Command Center
Edify kickstarts your data strategy with 50+ reports and dashboards in the Edify Command Center. Leaders in 10 key functional areas including enrollment, HR, and financial operations can access reports, track trends, and ask questions. And Edify’s new AI-powered Insight Agents let you automatically monitor data in these reports to catch early signals and take action.
For example:
- A department chair who wants to find courses where students are struggling while there’s still time in the semester to intervene could ask for help identifying courses where a significant number of students are at risk of receiving a D or F or withdrawing.
- A CFO concerned with cost control could ask to be alerted of any individual purchase over a given price threshold, or any purchases from non-approved vendors.
Academic Leaders
Offer the right programs and courses for your school Your program portfolio and course schedule matter far beyond registration. How your institution allocates academic resources has implications for student progress, program growth, revenue, and more. Edify’s customizable, self-service program health analytics are designed based on EAB’s decade+ of higher education research with flexibility to account for your institution’s needs and goals.
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Business Leaders
Monitor financial health and performance Managing spending proactively is critical as budgets tighten. With Edify, you can forecast net tuition revenue, track workforce compensation and hiring, examine vendor spend patterns and contract cycles, optimize restricted fund spending, and more to address potential budget issues before they occur.
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IT Leaders
Modernize your technology infrastructure What if you could switch technology systems with limited disruption? Edify combines a cloud-based data lake and warehouse with an integration command center to create a flexible, vendor-agnostic foundation on which you can build a more modern campus technology infrastructure—while saving your team time.
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IR and IE Leaders
Speed up reporting Reporting requirements are growing, and most teams struggle to keep pace. Edify makes reporting—including accreditation and compliance reporting—fast and accurate, giving meaningful time back to IR and IE teams. Compile, transform, cleanse, and validate data in Edify’s higher education data model, then create automated workflows to generate reports that are ready for validation in hours, not days.
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Activate Your Data
Edify’s higher education data analytics solution powers  your most important decisions. The platform’s AI-powered insight agents monitor your data and deliver relevant insights right when you need them.
Your institution can also hit the ground running with Edify’s accelerators: sets of customizable dashboards designed for higher education priorities such as pinpointing re-enrollment opportunities, tracking enrollment trends, and optimizing the course schedule. See a full list of Edify’s accelerators here.
Role-based report and AI permissions control access so everyone can see the data they need without putting security and privacy at risk.
Reporting with Edify
Edify supports faster and more accurate operational and compliance reporting for IPEDS surveys, accreditation, and more.
See how one partner automated data preparation to reduce manual IPEDS reporting time by 75% in this case study.
Predictive Analytics with Edify
You can build your own predictive models in Edify or work with our experts on predictive analytics projects.
For example, what if you could predict student support needs within the first two weeks of a term? One area where our partners use predictive modeling to predict support needs at the course level by pairing LMS data with pre-enrollment data.
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- No coding needed: Edify AI lets you interact with data in plain language. Build queries without SQL expertise with AI Query Assist or make technical queries easier to understand and validate with AI SQL explainer.
- Bring-your-own BI: Edify supports data visualization through your preferred business intelligence tools.
Unify Your Data
Bring together data from all your campus systems in a scalable, vendor-agnostic foundation that supports true—and secure—data democratization.
Edify’s cloud-native data lake and warehouse for higher education can ingest data from virtually any campus system through a library of pre-built system connectors. You can also integrate systems—including homegrown ones—via custom extractions.
Throughout the platform, row-level security and role-based permissions allow you to expand data access while protecting sensitive data.
Get your campus AI-Ready with Edify
Edify prepares your data for AI activation, giving your AI systems access to centralized and governed data.
See how one partner is using Claude and Edify to accelerate trusted reporting in this case study.
More Data Access, Warehousing, and Integration Features in Edify
- Full data pipelines
- Downstream data delivery
- Data transformation
- Snapshotting
- Data processing logs and monitoring
- Permissions management
Pre-built connectors ingest data from these systems & more
Trust Your Data
With Edify, you can build confidence across your campus that data is reliable and ready for analytics and AI. Edify creates a single source of truth by keeping your data organized, accurate, and well-documented. Edify’s data governance tools and services are based on higher education best practices and our team’s experience with thousands of data integrations of higher ed data systems.
Edify’s data governance capabilities include:
- A transparent, customizable, and higher-ed specific data model
- 200+ out-of-the-box, customizable data and metadata definitions
- AI-powered data catalog creation to speed up your data documentation
- Data lineage visualization and AI lineage visualization to show the path of any data point
Make Progress on Data Governance with Your Peers
Edify partners can access EAB’s Enterprise Data Management Collaborative, a 3-part hands-on learning series dedicated to making meaningful progress on data governance and strategy.
Institutions working on data governance can also assess their strategy in customized consultation with EAB’s change management experts.
Gain AI-Powered Insights and Increase Your Team’s Productivity
Edify AI gives your team in-the-moment answers to their questions and empowers campus data consumers to make better decisions faster. Find, act on, and monitor trusted data in a matter of minutes with these embedded AI agents:
- Query Assist: Turn a simple prompt into data-rich reports without needing to write code from scratch.
- Data Search Assist: Find the data and context you need using plain-language prompts.
- SQL Explainer: Translate SQL statements into easy-to-read explanations.
Watch the video below to learn more about Edify AI.
Accelerate Your Work with Expert Support
Edify’s experts meet you where you are, providing tailored services to simplify higher education data management and AI activation. Our experienced team of higher education data scientists, data architects, integration engineers, programmers, and business process experts understand your unique environment and goals and can reduce strain on your staff while delivering results. Your use of Edify can be self-service, partially managed, or fully managed by EAB.
Professional services can be used for:
- Strategy and culture support
- Process consulting
- Data architecture design
- Data science and analysis
- Integration services
- General implementation support
How Our Partners Create Data-Enabled Institutions
With Edify, colleges and universities are connecting data from across campus for better and faster decisions. From creating a common language with campus data to avoiding a major funding loss, hear them describe the impact of the partnership in their own words in this collection of testimonials.
Work with higher ed data experts
Every partner works with a dedicated Strategic Leader who learns your organization and culture to steer your team to the right answers and resources. Our higher ed data and change management experts become an extension of your leadership team and expand the capacity of what you can accomplish.
Talk to Our Team
Lars Waldo
Managing Director, Data Science
Specialties Student Success, Information Technology, Data and Analytics
Wesley Pendarvis
Managing Director, Data and Analytics
Specialties Student Success, University Systems and Governance, Vendor Relations and Management
Ready to get started with Edify?
Connect with our Edify team to bring a customized demo experience tailored to your institution’s data strategy and goals.
Latest Research and Insights
The Data Governance Imperative
The Higher Ed Data Cleanup Checklist
How Will Agentic AI Show Up in Higher Education?
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