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Beyond the Strategic Enrolment Plan: Framework Challenges & Knowing when to Restructure

When SEM becomes a struggle beyond a single process, or when multiple targets seem unachievable, the framework may no longer be able to bear the weight the institution requires.

How Data Governance Supports SEM

Building transparency in SEM and enrolment forecasting is key to ensuring alignment and collaboration between your stakeholders, and data governance helps to support this transparency while keeping data safe and secure.

Benefits of Mapping Data Lineage

Promote trust in your data with a metadata management tool, which ensures clarity of who is accountable for the accuracy of a particular dataset, who to turn to if questions arise, where a piece of data originates and how its used.

Tips for Moving to Near-Real-Time Data in Higher Education

Learning to work with daily or real-time data feels like learning to drink from a firehose. As more universities and colleges move to having near-real-time data, we offer these helpful tips.

The Data Only Updates 3x Per Year?

Snapshots can also be helpful with enrolment forecasting – in particular, many users I speak to don’t want their forecast to change daily, instead every second week or even every month.

Why Version Control Matters to Enrolment Forecasters

Enrolment forecasts are often large and complex models, involving information from databases, models, spreadsheets, and several other places. These models often involve thousands of lines of code and there are many opportunities for human error. I recommend using software to support versioning.

Using a Database for your Enrolment Forecast

Databases are great at storing the inputs and outputs of your enrolment forecast. Depending on your configuration, horsepower, and forecast design however, they may be very subpar for the steps that happen between input and output.

Two decades of data wrangling, and I’m still learning new things

Many institutions we work with struggle with the subscription models employed by many software vendors. Each time you onboard new staff, there is an added license cost that you didn’t plan for in your budget. But with FME, the cost of adding new staff to the platform is exactly zero.