Plaid Analyze is a subscription service consisting of strategic, tactical, and operational dashboards designed for strategic enrolment management professionals helping institutions meet their SEM goals and allows institutions minimize the cost of building dashboards. This includes a service level agrement of monthly dashboard improvements, access to online training, one new dashboard per fiscal quarter, and a quarterly dashboard check-in with one of Plaid's SEM experts.

Analyze dashboards can be customized based on your institution's brand, as well as the particulars of your data sources. Data dashboards focused on themes such as: admissions, course and student success rates, high DFW (D/F grades/withdraw) rates, tuition, financial aid, program enrolment, assessment, progress to targets. Dashboards can be viewed over time and broken down in multiple ways such as Faculty, domestic/international, program, time periods, and so on.

With the Plaid approach, we provide:

• Reduce manual data pulls: Automate dashboard updates to refocus time spent.
• Shift focus: Shift your analysts to focusing on the why? instead of the what with dashboards that update automatically.
• Interactive dashboards for all stakeholders: Understand the high-level trends, and drill into the detail.
• Better support underrepresented groups: Group your data by demographics, such as ethnicity or Indigenous status to identify opportunities for student success supports.
• Optimize enrolment: Track how class enrolment has changed by modality and optimize opportunities for students and faculty.

Our team worked with Plaid Analytics for a comprehensive series of training sessions on Tableau and Power BI. Throughout several months, Plaid Analytics worked closely with us to create a customized training to meet our specific needs, ensuring a highly effective and relevant learning experience.

The Tableau training, expertly led by Pat and Clara, spanned three full days and encompassed a range of topics from beginner to advanced. Their deep understanding of the software was evident in their ability to lead the exercises, answer questions from an audience with diverse levels of experience and make it enjoyable while keeping participants on track.

Ahmad, who conducted the Power BI sessions over two half-days, managed to cover all the essential basics. This training was designed as PBI for Tableau users to help users with experience in Tableau get up to speed quickly. Ahmed's coverage of the considerations needed to set up the environment to enable self-service was particularly helpful to us and not something that we have found in other Power BI training sessions.

The collective expertise of Pat, Clara, and Ahmad was a significant factor in the success of these sessions. Their ability to convey complex concepts with clarity and engage our team in interactive learning was impressive. Their passion for data visualization and enthusiasm for teaching were infectious and have left a lasting impact on us.

Thanks to the training provided by Plaid Analytics, our team is now better equipped to utilize the full capabilities of Tableau and Power BI, enhancing our data engagement and educational analysis. We highly recommend Plaid Analytics for their exceptional training services and their dedication to customer satisfaction.

Decision Support Team - Oregon State University