Case Study: Year Up protects mission-critical student data and ensures rapid recovery with OwnBackup

Year Up protects and preserves mission-critical student data with OwnBackup

Year Up is a nonprofit that closes the Opportunity Divide by preparing young adults from low-income backgrounds for careers and higher education—serving over 34,000 students across nearly 30 campuses, with 80% of new graduates securing jobs or continuing education and long-term earnings gains shown by rigorous studies. As Year Up scaled, its single student database in Salesforce became mission-critical: they needed to prevent accidental deletions, improve efficiency through automation, and onboard an intuitive solution quickly.

Year Up implemented OwnBackup’s Backup & Recovery and Archiver to archive historical records, reduce Salesforce storage, and restore deleted data rapidly. The result is reliable, off-system protection and storage savings that give Year Up confidence against data disasters and free staff to focus on their core mission of delivering equitable education and career opportunities.

Year Up

Tim Porter

Senior Director Enterprise Applications, Architecture and Security