Welcome ARUCC | PCCAT Conference Attendees.

If you found a 2-minute self-assessment in your conference bag — or scanned a code to get here — you're in the right place.

Across Canadian higher education, registrars and institutional research leaders are being asked to do more with their data: report faster, reconcile competing numbers, and stand behind metrics that leadership, government, and boards all depend on. That gets harder every year as systems multiply and definitions drift.

Plaid Analytics helps institutions build data foundations they can trust: consistent definitions, documented governance, and reporting that holds up under scrutiny.

Plaid specializes in higher education data infrastructure, supporting colleges and universities across Canada and the United States.

Join the Conversation at ARUCC | PCCAT 2026

Roundtable: Is Canadian Higher Education Ready for Shared Analytics Standards Like MortarCAPS?

This isn't a presentation — it's a working conversation among peers about what shared standards could solve, and what makes them genuinely hard to implement. If you took the self-assessment, bring your toughest "No" to the table. That's exactly what we'll be discussing.
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Tuesday, June 16 · 2:45–3:30 PM · St-Laurent 3, Hôtel Bonaventure Montréal

Join the Roundtable

The Questions Registrars and IR Leaders Are Being Asked

Across institutions, the people responsible for the numbers are increasingly being asked:

  • Why don't these two reports agree — and which one is right?
  • Can we reproduce last year's government and board submissions, exactly?
  • How much of our reporting still depends on one person and one spreadsheet?
  • Where do inconsistent definitions create friction between offices?
  • Could we map our data to an external standard without months of archaeology?
  • Does leadership actually trust these numbers enough to act on them?
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Answering these questions well requires more than another dashboard. It requires well-integrated data, documented definitions, and clear accountability for accuracy - the foundation everything else sits on.

How Plaid Helps

A Trustworthy Data Foundation

Most reporting pain traces back to the same root causes: definitions that live in someone's head, undocumented logic, and pipelines no one fully understands.

Data Governance That Sticks

Many institutions struggle with inconsistent definitions for core metrics — enrolment counts, retention, completion, headcount. [**Plaid Govern**](https://www.plaid.is/govern/) helps institutions document definitions, track data lineage, and build lasting institutional confidence in their numbers, so the answer to "where did this figure come from?" is always one click away.

Integration Across Your Systems

Trustworthy reporting often means connecting data across student information systems, CRMs, and institutional research warehouses. Plaid helps institutions build an integrated analytics foundation so teams can answer questions quickly and consistently — without rebuilding from scratch each time.

Looking Forward, Not Just Back

Once the foundation is solid, institutions can move from reporting on the past to planning for the future. With [**Plaid Forecast**](https://www.plaid.is/forecast/), institutions explore realistic enrolment scenarios and understand how today's decisions shape tomorrow's headcounts, course demand, and revenue.

Who We Work With

We collaborate with teams across the institution, including:

  • Registrars and records offices
  • Institutional research and analytics teams
  • CIOs and institutional IT- Strategic enrolment leaders
  • Provost and planning offices

Many of our clients are working to modernize reporting, strengthen governance, and build a data layer the whole institution can rely on.

Partnering with Plaid Analytics was instrumental in shaping our strategic enrolment plan. Their expertise in the SEM landscape across North America and their experience in leveraging data to inform strategy helped us to transform our aspirational goals into a clear evidence-based growth plan rooted in our institutional realities.
~ Melissa Padfield, Deputy Provost, Students and Enrolment
University of Alberta
See Our Solutions

Plaid Analytics specializes in higher education data and enrolment planning, with experience supporting colleges and universities across Canada and the United States.

Continue the Conversation

If you're attending ARUCC | PCCAT, we'd love to hear about the challenges you're working through.

We're always happy to discuss:

  • building reporting your institution can trust
  • documenting definitions and governance that actually gets used
  • what shared standards like MortarCAPS could mean for your institution
  • moving from fragile, manual reporting to a dependable data foundation

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Plaid Analytics

Helping institutions

Trust their numbers.
Document their data.
Decide with Confidence.