Case Study: Kansas State University achieves faster, more secure data-driven decision-making with Microsoft Corporation

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

Kansas State University, a large U.S. higher education institution, needed a better way to unify data from disparate systems and improve reporting on integrity, quality, timeliness, and security as it worked toward becoming a top 50 public research university. The university turned to Microsoft Corporation, using tools including Azure SQL Data Warehouse, Power BI, and SQL Server 2016 to support its enterprise analytics initiative.

Microsoft Corporation implemented a phased enterprise data warehouse and self-service analytics approach with Power BI, enabling Kansas State University to combine data from multiple subject areas into standard, up-to-date reports. The result was faster access to reports, improved collaboration, and major time savings: tasks that once took weeks, such as cleaning data and creating survey reports, can now be completed in hours.

Kansas State University

Miriam Clark

Business Intelligence Expert