Case Study: Fordham University achieves faster, more cost-effective data analytics with Microsoft Corporation

University empowers more decision makers with easy-to-use data analytics

Fordham University, a large higher-education institution in New York City, needed to give hundreds of administrators better access to data for decisions about enrollment, student success, and budgeting. Its legacy BI approach was too limited and expensive, forcing staff to rely on static reports, Excel workarounds, and a few licensed users. Fordham turned to Microsoft Corporation, using Azure and Power BI alongside its SQL Server data warehouse and related tools.

Microsoft Corporation implemented an easy-to-use analytics platform based on Power BI, Azure, and Azure Machine Learning, enabling more administrators to create reports and dashboards from a shared data source. The result was faster rollout, broader self-service analytics, and better insight into student outcomes, while reducing BI costs by 200 percent and saving IT 200 hours per year through cloud-based infrastructure management.

Fordham University

Rashid Khan

Director of Analytics