The University of North Carolina located in Chapel Hill, North Carolina is the United States’ oldest public university. Its mission is to serve as a center for research, scholarship, and creativity and to teach a diverse community of undergraduate, graduate, and professional students to become the next generation of leaders.
“Informatica is helping students across all UNC System schools with the real-time information and flexibility they need to take courses required for graduation via online courses offered within the UNC System. This helps students fulfill graduation requirements even when the courses they need are not offered at their home institution.”
Business Need
- Automate participation in UNC Online and data sharing between UNC institution systems
- Deploy a real-time, cloud-based solution university-wide
Challenges
- Enable students to take UNC Online courses hosted by schools throughout the UNC system
- Devote more time to value-added application development and less time building interfaces among systems
- Satisfy demand for real-time data and integrations to support enrollment at 17 different institutions
Solutions & Results
- Informatica Intelligent Cloud Services automates data integrations between schools in the UNC System
- Prebuilt Informatica Cloud Connectors for Oracle Database, REST Web Services and other key data sources accelerate deployment
- Reduces development time up to 50-60%, enabling UNC to deploy new web services into production approximately 4x faster
- Informatica Cloud Application Integration consolidates real-time data between student information systems
- Makes it easier to accommodate requests for real-time data integrations across the university
