SAP Student Activity Hub Solution Overview

1. Monitor and Boost Student Performance
Through Data Integration
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Objectives
Make student success the center
of your data transformation
Your job as educator is to train students for productive lives and lifelong learning.
Data analytics can help you track their progress, but preparing data manually from
several sources distracts you from your goal.The SAP® Student Activity Hub solution
aggregates data from structured and unstructured sources automatically, delivering
the insights you need to help students succeed.
Recognizing the link between a well-educated work-
force and national economic development, govern-
ments and foundations often tie higher-education
funding to the success of graduates.Thus, student
success translates to institutional success. To help
your students succeed,you must provide an optimal
learning environment that guides them toward
graduating affordably and on time. Data-informed
decision-making is the key to improving results.
Through co-innovation with our customers,
SAP developed SAP Student Activity Hub to put
our advanced cloud analytics to work for you.
Grounded in common education data standards
and powered by SAP HANA®, it helps you make
the most of the information already recorded
about students and their activities. You can con-
solidate all relevant data from existing systems
into a single platform and data model to track
student progress and uncover signals from
student behavior that help you understand how
best to support each individual.
Make student success the center of
your data transformation
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Build the analytical content in a core
data model
Your advisors and administrators need to study
student performance and campus activities to moni-
tor fulfillment of degree requirements and detect
early signs of need for remediation or guidance.
SAP Student Activity Hub makes it easy for you
to find all data points on student activity in one place,
whether the IT landscape at your institution runs
on premise or in the cloud.
The hub needs no existing SAP software and con-
nects openly to your student information systems
and learning management systems for input.
Applying 40 years of SAPexperience in data manage-
ment, the solution runs on SAP HANA Enterprise
Cloud and aggregates data from multiple sources
to build a single large table of student activities.You
can display the resulting information in an intuitive
and attractive user interface built into SAP Student
Activity Hub, or send it to a solution from the SAP
BusinessObjects™ Business Intelligence suite or a
third-party business intelligence tool.You never have
to worry about collecting and processing raw data,
so you can focus on analyzing student performance
and need.
Build the analytical content in a core
data model
Accelerate and optimize analytics
through standard scenarios
Personalize as you turn insight into
action
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Exploiting the speed and power of SAP HANA, you
enjoy real-time insight at your fingertips – without
time-consuming IT intervention.
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Accelerate and optimize analytics
through standard scenarios
You can configure SAP Student Activity Hub to meet
any number of analytical needs, but it comes with
several preconfigured data models specific to higher
education.With leading universities as co-innovation
partners, SAP has developed common views that
meet the requirements for tracking progress in most
educational organizations. These standard views
feature student demographics, activities, organi-
zations, class and course enrollment, majors and
minors, academic calendars, and retention details.
The hub includes robust functionality from
SAP HANA to help fine-tune displays to specific
roles and preferences or to create entirely new
views.
Visualization formats include shortest-path graphs
to show your administrators and students the most
efficient way to reach particular goals and degrees.
The solution exploits performance-based techno­
logies for time-series,spatial,and predictive analytics,
along with the latest developments in machine
learning.
SAP Student Activity Hub can integrate any number
of data points into vertical or horizontal analytical
displays for actionable insight in milliseconds.
Build the analytical content in a core
data model
Accelerate and optimize analytics
through standard scenarios
Personalize as you turn insight into
action
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Personalize as you turn insight
into action
With SAP Student Activity Hub, you can monitor
and interact with microsegments of the student
population through customized alerts, reminders,
surveys, service offerings, and general messages.
For example, curated content in the hub can help
you determine how well scholarship students are
maintaining required grade point averages. You
can send a note of congratulations for a semester
on the honor roll or an offer of tutoring services if
grades are trending negatively. You can pay extra
attention to those at risk,such as first-year students,
students with double or triple majors, students with
outside jobs, or graduate students in particularly
stressful fields.
You can also track and encourage students in large
classes with five different monitoring sections so
that they do not feel anonymous and have greater
incentive to perform well. And, you can make spot
checks on regularly high-achieving students to
ensure they are being properly engaged and chal-
lenged. It’s as simple as changing your data view.
Build the analytical content in a core
data model
Accelerate and optimize analytics
through standard scenarios
Personalize as you turn insight into
action
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SAP Student Activity Hub lets you monitor
performance and tailor your interactions
with students for maximum effect.
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Capitalize on analytics to help ensure
student success
Designed with and for higher-education institutions,
SAP Student Activity Hub requires no supporting
software or hardware and, in fact, reduces IT com-
plexity. The solution complies with common edu-
cation data standards and is open to data input
from all institutional systems that follow student
progress.
The hub capitalizes on the speed and power of the
revolutionary SAP HANA platform to perform data
updates and analytical processing on a single copy
of the database. Lag times for reporting disappear,
so you can draw real-time insight from consolidated
structured and unstructured data and respond
immediately to changing circumstances. With
extensive research behind it and a clear road map
in front of it, SAP Student Activity Hub can easily
support future technological innovations and new
procedures to inspire student success.
By bringing a wealth of data to one central location,
the solution helps your administrators, faculty,
student advisors, data analysts, and IT staff under-
stand better than ever why students succeed or
fail. In a single holistic and comprehensive view,
you can discover new opportunities to provide
feedback and personalize the learning experience.
By helping your students succeed, you help your
institution thrive in the competitive higher-education
arena.
Capitalize on analytics to help ensure
student success
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Summary
The SAP® StudentActivity Hub solution gives admini­
strators, advisors, and data analysts a single holistic
and comprehensive overview of student progress.
By collating data from disparate systems, you can
synthesize information, perform advanced analysis,
and then act, by developing programs and proce-
dures.This flexibility allows you to repeat processes
until desired educational outcomes are achieved.
Objectives
•• Establish and maintain a single university-wide
overview of student progress
•• Focus data processes on delivering insights
rather than aggregating data sources
•• Quickly identify students in need and determine
where to focus oversight for optimal results
•• Base decisions on data rather than hunches
Solution
•• Open interface to student information, learn-
ing management, and business intelligence
systems
•• Higher-education data layer running on the
SAP HANA® platform
•• Curated views designed in co-innovation with
top educational institutions
•• Student grouping and personalized communi-
cation capabilities
Benefits
•• Make better decisions on student progress using
one information source
•• Boost retention to maximize institutional ranking,
revenue generation, and alumni satisfaction
•• Raise graduation rates to demonstrate success
to potential donors
•• Increase student satisfaction
Learn more
For more on helping students succeed with
SAP Student Activity Hub, visit us online.
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