Intuitive Data Integration Platform Enables Vanderbilt University to Leverage Endowment Data
公司规模
1,000+
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- Centerprise Data Integrator
技术栈
- Data Integration Platform
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Digital Expertise
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 平台即服务 (PaaS) - 数据管理平台
适用行业
- 教育
适用功能
- 商业运营
服务
- 数据科学服务
关于客户
Vanderbilt University, located in Nashville, TN, is a private research university with approximately 12,000 students from all 50 U.S. states and over 90 foreign countries. The University required a system for accurate and timely reporting of endowment investments. A key part of the solution was gathering and mapping data from a variety of sources, including outside money managers. The Office of Investments at the university manages the university's $3.2 billion endowment. The funds are typically invested through multiple external money managers who have little or no communication among each other.
挑战
Vanderbilt University Office of Investments (OOI) manages the university's $3.2 billion endowment. The funds are typically invested through multiple external money managers who have little or no communication among each other. In the uncertain economy, the OOI wanted to determine consolidated risk exposures of the endowment to better understand the impact of different macroeconomic and market shocks. This was a difficult task that often required manual entry because the investment data was scattered across multiple systems. The risk management team needed an application that could integrate and map data from multiple internal and external sources in a timely and repeatable manner and give accurate reports of the endowment's factor risk exposures.
解决方案
After a build-or-buy analysis, the decision was made to acquire a data integration platform and a team was formed to evaluate various integration tools. Vanderbilt conducted a detailed evaluation of several data integration platforms, including SSIS, which was already deployed at Vanderbilt. The team discovered SSIS was difficult to learn and use and therefore entailed a significantly high total cost of ownership. Other platforms either did not meet the evaluation criteria or were too expensive. Vanderbilt ultimately selected Centerprise Data Integrator. By leveraging Centerprise's dataflow, workflow, and scheduling capabilities, Vanderbilt was able to quickly develop integration jobs to automatically retrieve and map data from external money managers and internal systems into the endowment tracking software.
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