Data Integration for Higher Education: An NJIT and Splunk Case Study

Data integration has become a crucial capability for educational institutions in today's digital age. It is no longer enough to simply collect and store data. The real value comes from integrating and analyzing data across different systems to provide meaningful insights that can drive academic and operational success. 

One institution prioritizing data integration is the New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT), which has revolutionized its capacity to integrate data across its campus infrastructure. With the Splunk platform, NJIT can now combine disparate streams of event, academic and infrastructure data, bolstering physical and digital security across the campus. 

Redefining Student Success

After experiencing substantial growth in recent years, NJIT relies on the Splunk platform to help the institution collect non-obvious data from various facets of the student and campus experience across its community of over 12,000 full-time students. This way, NJIT’s IT teams can effectively monitor student and university progression toward critical objectives, such as expanding on-site attendance. By strategically mining non-obvious data from various aspects of the student and campus experience, NJIT has effectively monitored progress toward critical objectives, such as increasing on-site attendance, resulting in a remarkable 28% jump in enrollment in recent years.

Gaining a Holistic View of Campus Infrastructure

NJIT's IT team leverages Splunk Observability Cloud and Splunk Synthetic Monitoring to observe activity across the campus infrastructure and better prevent, detect and respond to downtime. Through a holistic view of its cloud environment, NJIT can detect issues and update applications ahead of critical university moments, like registration and exams. As a fast-paced institution, NJIT's IT team can proactively eliminate student disruption while addressing an issue before it has a long-term negative impact and improve student experiences with university services on campus or attending remotely.

Training Tomorrow’s Leaders With a Student-Powered SOC

NJIT's vision for a student-powered security operations center (SOC) is another example of how data integration can drive academic and operational success. By partnering with Splunk, NJIT aims to support hundreds of students and train the future cyber workforce over the next decade. This approach showcases NJIT's forward-thinking approach to educational excellence. 

Learn about how another leading institution is working to protect its students, community and state with a student-powered SOC powered by Splunk.

Data integration is critical for educational institutions like NJIT. Using Splunk, NJIT has effectively integrated data across its campus infrastructure, providing meaningful insights that have driven academic and operational success. NJIT's approach to data integration serves as an excellent use case for every university on how comprehensive visibility of its data — from academics to data privacy to space utilization — can impact the broader student experience.

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