Higher education only · Accepting new engagements
Power BI dashboards, PostgreSQL pipelines, and custom analytics tooling, designed by an analyst who has lived inside the system. FERPA-safe by design, IPEDS-aware from day one.
Power BI · PostgreSQL · Microsoft Fabric · IPEDS
Delivered
Student enrollment in Power BI: census snapshots, headcount, credit hours, and term-over-term comparisons, all running on governed PostgreSQL views.
Services
Most higher-ed analytics work fails at the seams. The SQL doesn't match the dashboard, the dashboard doesn't match the meeting, the meeting doesn't change anything. We work end to end so the seams disappear.
Dashboards
Power BI dashboards that survive contact with cabinet meetings. Built from your real data warehouse, not slide decks. Versioned, documented, and handed off cleanly.
SQL & data
The pipeline behind the dashboard. PostgreSQL models, semantic layers, and documented query libraries your IR team can maintain after we leave.
Development
When a dashboard isn't enough. Internal web tools, data apps, and AI-augmented workflows tailored to how your institution actually operates.
Process
Higher ed runs on terms, not sprints. The process respects census dates, board cycles, and reporting deadlines, and produces artifacts your team owns at the end.
Stakeholder interviews, data inventory, and a clear scoping doc. We map what exists, what's broken, and what the board actually wants to see.
SQL models in Git, semantic layer documented, FERPA review baked in. Every metric defined once, used everywhere.
Dashboards, tools, or both, iterated weekly with your IR team in the loop. No black-box deliverables.
Documentation, training, and a 30-day support runway. Your team owns it. We're a phone call away when you need us.
Engagement
Project
Fixed fee · 2 to 6 weeks
A defined deliverable with a clear start and end. Best for one specific dashboard, data model, report migration, or internal tool.
Retainer
Monthly retainer · a term or a full year
Ongoing partnership where we act as fractional analytics leadership, supporting your IR office across a term or a full year. This is how we work with Southwestern Adventist University today.
Advisory
Written roadmap deliverable
Audit, recommend, advise. For institutions standing up an analytics function or rethinking the one they have.
Every engagement starts with a free 30-minute discovery call.
Why higher ed only
Most analytics consultancies treat higher education as a vertical to tack on. We do the opposite. Every engagement we take is for a college, university, or higher-ed adjacent organization, because the difference between a generic BI shop and one that already knows what FTIC, FFTE, and IPEDS Part E mean is measured in months of wasted ramp-up.
The practice is led by Davenee James, Enterprise Analytics Specialist at the University of Central Florida and former IR analyst at Southwestern Adventist University, where the Argos-to-Power BI migration, the Colleague ODS reporting layer, and five annual IPEDS surveys were built from the inside.
Let's talk
Start with a free 30-minute discovery call. We'll tell you honestly whether we're the right fit, and we respond within one business day.
What to include
Your institution, your SIS (Colleague, Banner, Jenzabar, PowerCampus), and the question leadership keeps asking that the current reports can't answer.
Higher education only · Accepting new engagements
