Case Study: Kansas State University achieves enterprise-wide self-service analytics to accelerate Top-50 ambitions with Microsoft Azure

Kansas State sets sights on top 50 distinction with an enterprise data analytics platform

Kansas State University, a land‑grant institution serving 25,000 students, set a goal to become a top‑50 public research university by 2025. To get there it needed better, faster, and more secure decision‑grade data: existing administrative systems were fragmented, produced inconsistent and outdated reports, and required heavy technical effort—challenges compounded by limited budget and staff.

K‑State implemented a Microsoft enterprise analytics stack (Azure SQL Data Warehouse, SQL Server, and Power BI) to unify data, standardize definitions, and enable self‑service reporting. Rolled out in phases with training and user groups, the solution automated data processing, cut report preparation from weeks to hours, improved timeliness and quality, and empowered departments to run relational reports without IT support—laying an analytics foundation for broader, data‑driven growth.

Kansas State University

Miriam Clark

Business Intelligence Expert