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University of Kentucky Deploys New Tools for Student Retention Analytics

By Jim Barthold
05/21/12

The University of Kentucky (UK) has deployed a new database solution in an effort to improve retention.

Specifically, the university is using Dell Services to help with its deployment of the SAP HANA in-memory database solution from SAP AG. UK is using the SAP HANA platform to analyze and predict student graduation likelihood, while Dell Services is providing the university with assessment, design, development, deployment, and management services.

The SAP HANA program is designed to help the university operate a student retention analytics model that identifies students who display early signs of needing help by highlighting their trouble areas. With the SAP HANA solution the university can deploy student self-service recommendation tools, review predicted graduation scores, and recommend advisor sessions to students, according to the company. The platform’s scoring model and analytics is designed to let the university share information with students and parents, among others, via opt-in notification.

Memory analytics were an especially important reason to choose the SAP HANA solution, said University of Kentucky CIO Vince Kellen in a news release, who said that
“in-memory analytics is a game-changing leap forward. With real-time data at our advisors’ fingertips and personalized, useful information in the hands of our students we will be able to help students in their academic careers. We can encourage student engagement with the university in ways that were previously not possible.”

The SAP HANA platform is designed to pull operational information from “virtually any data source” into a single environment where events and activities can be analyzed “without affecting existing applications or systems,” Dell said in a news release.

Dell has beefed up its support of SAP HANA by adding around-the-clock managed services, configuration of SAP data replication services, database migration services in support of migrating from SAP NetWeaver Business Warehouse to SAP HANA, and application development services for SAP HANA that include data integration, data modeling, statistical modeling, and performance dashboard and reporting design, the company said.

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Jim Barthold is a freelance technology reporter. He can be reached at [email protected].

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