Case Study: Illuminate Education achieves rapid, scalable K–12 reporting and massive growth with TIBCO Software

Illuminate Education Excels at Reporting Educational Results

Illuminate Education, a K–12 data platform, struggled with a slow, code‑heavy reporting process that pulled engineers away from core online testing, attendance, and scheduling work. Generating Excel outputs in PHP produced stale exports and limited design flexibility, making it hard to deliver timely, meaningful reports for districts, principals, teachers, parents, and students across varying state data formats.

The company embedded TIBCO Jaspersoft (Jaspersoft Studio and Visualize.js) to add visualizations, faster report design, and self‑service reporting, with TIBCO Professional Services accelerating deployment. Results: report delivery shrank from weeks to days, the catalog grew from ~25 to 350+ reports (with 2,500+ user‑created reports), usage doubled annually, expansion from 3 to 42 states, and now hundreds of thousands of reports are used monthly across 1,600+ districts and more than 6 million students.

Illuminate Education

Christine Olah

Engineering Program Manager