Data Silos
Enrollment, retention, and success data scattered across systems that never talk to each other properly
IR Dashboards & Analytics and BI & Reporting, built for the questions your board, your accreditors,
and your leadership team actually ask.
Most institutions aren't actually short on data. They're short on time to turn it into something usable. One analyst is pulling numbers by hand for a board request due Friday, a federal reporting deadline next month, an accreditation cycle that never really ends. The data's sitting there in Banner, Colleague, or Workday. Getting it into something a provost can actually use, that's the hard part.
We treat institutional research as its own discipline, not something bolted onto IT as an afterthought. That splits into two connected areas:
Most IR offices aren't short on data — they're short on time to make sense of it. We've worked alongside institutional research teams who spend more hours reconciling numbers between the SIS, the CRM, and a half-dozen spreadsheets than they spend actually analyzing what those numbers mean for retention or enrollment planning. That's the gap we built 1EdgeIT to close.
Our team at 1EdgeIT has sat inside registrar's offices and IR departments, building the reports that feed accreditation submissions, board presentations, and state reporting deadlines, so we know exactly what "the numbers don't match" costs an institution in trust and time. We're not analysts learning your data model from scratch — we've already built the dashboards, cleaned the same messy enrollment files, and sat through the same year-end scramble somewhere else.
IR needs look a little different at every institution, but here's what stays consistent no matter where you're starting from:
Enrollment, retention, and success data scattered across systems that never talk to each other properly
IR staff spending more time reconciling spreadsheets than analyzing what those numbers mean for leadership
Pulling together accurate, defensible data fast enough to meet accreditation and state reporting deadlines every cycle
Different offices calculating retention or enrollment differently, so no two reports ever fully agree
Board members and cabinet leadership questioning numbers because past reports didn't hold up under scrutiny