Scaling Student Success: Advancing Snowflake and Workday in Parallel with Xavier University

Xavier University partnered with Avaap to advance data modernization and student retention initiatives alongside its Workday implementation. By building a modern student retention data model on Snowflake before the Workday deployment was fully complete, the university accelerated access to actionable insights without waiting for the broader implementation to finish.

Explore how this approach can help higher education institutions modernize data, improve student retention strategies and establish a foundation for long-term student success.

Key Takeaways:

• Modernize student data alongside a Workday implementation
• Build a student retention data model on Snowflake
• Accelerate access to actionable student insights
• Improve data-driven student retention strategies
• Avoid waiting for a complete Workday deployment
• Establish a scalable foundation for long-term student success
• Advance data modernization while supporting ongoing transformation initiatives