Case Study: Arkansas Department of Education achieves faster, real-time data-driven decision making with Progress Software

Arkansas Department of Education The “Flashlight” Of Data-Driven Education Empowerment

The Arkansas Department of Education needed to expand data transfers from school districts from nine times a year to nightly and on-demand to support real-time, data-driven decisions across 265 districts. Its legacy Informix-to-SQL data-loading process was swamped by higher volumes, and built-in drivers were causing read errors during full-data pulls, all while the agency had to solve the problem entirely within its own systems. Progress Software helped by providing Progress DataDirect Platinum ODBC drivers.

Progress Software’s solution replaced the failing database drivers, enabling successful ETL processing for nightly district data pulls without requiring any changes from the districts. The result was a 20% faster data-transfer process, fewer load errors, and no need for additional processing capacity, while also improving data quality and operational efficiency for the Arkansas Department of Education.

Arkansas Department of Education

Cody Decker

Assistant Commissioner and Chief Information Officer, Division of Research and Technology