Event Sponsors and Partners
Bringing together all of the sponsors and partners who have supported Institutional Research events. Their involvement has helped create opportunities for collaboration, knowledge sharing, and growth within the institutional research community.
40 data & analytics sponsors and partners
Academic Analytics
Academic Analytics is a full-service source for strategic intelligence and mission‑critical systems for researchers at universities, academic health centers, and national laboratories.
Visit website ↗Alteryx
Alteryx is a leading AI and data analytics company that powers actionable insights that help organizations drive smarter, faster decisions.
Visit website ↗Cardinal
Cardinal Digital Marketing crafts patient‑centric, scalable paid‑search campaigns (Google, Bing, YouTube) designed to boost qualified inquiries, lower CPAs, and fuel growth across multi-location healthcare providers . They pair human‑led strategy—keyword research, conversion tracking, HIPAA‑compliant reporting—with AI/ML optimization to continuously maximize efficiency and transparency for better ROI .
Visit website ↗DBI DataBrains
DataBrains (DBI) is a data management and business analytics firm based in Ponte Vedra, Florida, renowned as a Tableau Partner of the Year and now part of Argano . The company specializes in modernizing analytics platforms, cloud-based BI solutions, and managed services to empower enterprise clients across industries
Visit website ↗Data Cookbook
The Data Cookbook, a collaborative online data intelligence solution by IData Inc., provides organizations with a pragmatic data governance framework. It includes business glossary, data system inventory, data stewardship management, data request management, data catalog, data quality management, data lineage, integrates with 100s of data sources.
Visit website ↗Dataintelligent
DataIntelligent offers advanced data analytics and digital insights solutions, helping businesses make informed decisions. Their services focus on transforming complex data into strategic intelligence.
Visit website ↗DigitalMeasures
DigitalMeasures, now part of Watermark, specialized in faculty activity reporting and academic data management. It helped institutions streamline accreditation and performance tracking.
Visit website ↗Equifax
Equifax is a global data, analytics, and technology company focused on credit reporting. It provides financial institutions and consumers with insights to make informed credit decisions.
Visit website ↗Explorance
Specializes in feedback analytics. It empowers organizations in higher education and enterprise to collect, analyze, and act on feedback using solutions like Blue, MLY, and Metrics That Matter, serving over 25 million users worldwide
Visit website ↗FlexIt Analytics
Self‑service business intelligence (BI) and data visualization platform that combines enterprise‑grade capabilities—like advanced data modeling, interactive in‑browser spreadsheet grids, and natural language querying—with ease of use
Visit website ↗Gray Decision Intelligence
Gray DI provides the only complete academic Program Evaluation System (PES) for higher education—combining software, data, and facilitated processes to help institutions make data-informed decisions that improve growth, efficiency, and student success.
Visit website ↗HEDS
The Higher Education Data Sharing Consortium is a community of colleges and universities committed to sharing data, knowledge, and expertise to advance liberal arts education, inclusive excellence, and student success via surveys and workshops.
Visit website ↗IBM SPSS
IBM SPSS software offers advanced statistical analysis, a vast library of machine‑learning algorithms, text analysis, open‑source extensibility, integration with big data, and seamless deployment… its user-friendly interface and predictive analytics capabilities make it suitable for all skill levels.
Visit website ↗IData Inc.
IData provides consulting services and data management software (including Data Cookbook) for data governance, integration, and intelligence—helping higher education institutions manage data effectively and drive insights.
Visit website ↗IOTA360
Founded in 1999 by educators, IOTA360 offers an integrated platform for higher education that supports assessments, faculty activity, accreditation reporting, and course evaluations—all in one system.
Visit website ↗Information Builders
A global trusted leader in business intelligence, analytics, and data management solutions. Its fully‑integrated platform empowers organisations to make smarter decisions, strengthen customer and supplier relationships, and drive efficiency growth.
Visit website ↗Interfolio
Interfolio operates the first-ever Faculty Information System for higher education institutions, the widely used Dossier product for individual scholars, and the Researchfish impact assessment platform for funders and research organizations.
Visit website ↗Informer by entrinisk
Software company that specializes in intuitive, AI-powered business intelligence and reporting platforms used by over 3,000 organizations worldwide . The company’s flagship product, Informer, falls within the business‑intelligence and data‑analytics category—offering self‑service reporting, interactive dashboards, AI assistants, and secure data governance for midmarket and enterprise clients
Visit website ↗Kai Analytics and Survey Research, Inc.
Kai Analytics is a Vancouver-based market research and data analytics consultancy leveraging machine learning and NLP to analyze qualitative feedback, design and analyze surveys, perform statistical modeling, and deliver visual dashboards and insights.
Visit website ↗Lightcast
Lightcast is a labor market analytics company (formerly known as Emsi Burning Glass). They specialize in gathering, analyzing, and delivering comprehensive workforce data to help organizations make informed decisions about talent, jobs, and skills
Visit website ↗Microsoft Power BI
Power BI is Microsoft’s interactive cloud-based business analytics platform, part of Power Platform, enabling users to connect to a variety of data sources, model data, and create interactive visualizations and reports for data-driven decisions.
Visit website ↗Nuventive
Nuventive offers a cloud-based improvement platform that integrates strategic planning, accreditation, learning outcomes, and analytics for higher education institutions. The platform empowers continuous, data-informed institutional improvement
Visit website ↗Precision Campus
Precision Campus provides fully customizable reporting and analytics software designed specifically for higher education. It simplifies institutional data visualization—such as retention, budgeting, and program reviews—without needing technical skills
Visit website ↗QSR International (Lumivero)
Developer of NVivo, XSight and other qualitative research analytics tools, serving over 1.5M users globally.
Visit website ↗Qualtrics
A leading experience management platform (XM) used to capture and analyze customer, employee, product, and brand insights.
Visit website ↗Rapid Insight
A higher‑ed analytics provider offering a code‑free workspace and predictive modeling tools for data-driven decisions.
Visit website ↗Remark
Offers OMR-based data collection and analysis tools to streamline grading, surveys, assessments, and form processing.
Visit website ↗SAS Institute, Inc.
A leading private software company founded in 1976, specializing in advanced analytics, AI (SAS Viya), and business intelligence, used by Fortune 500 firms .
Visit website ↗SPOL
Institutional effectiveness software for higher education
Visit website ↗STATA
STATA is a comprehensive statistical software suite for data analysis, visualization, and automation, widely used by researchers in fields like economics, epidemiology, and social sciences
Visit website ↗Tableau (from Salesforce)
Tableau is a top-tier end-to-end analytics and BI tool, now part of Salesforce, offering powerful visual analytics and AI-driven dashboards for all users .
Visit website ↗VIsual Risk IQ
Visual Risk IQ is a boutique advisory firm specializing in data analytics, risk management, and internal audit enablement. They help organizations turn raw data into actionable insights through visual reporting, training, and hands-on coaching.
Visit website ↗Xitracs
Offers an assessment, curriculum mapping, accreditation, and strategic‐planning system for higher ed, helping institutions manage outcomes, credentials, and compliance more efficiently
Visit website ↗Zogotech
Specializes in higher-ed data analytics, integrating campus systems with pre-built models to surface enrollment trends, credentialing gaps, and student success metrics across the lifecycle
Visit website ↗iDashboards
An AI-powered BI/dashboard platform offering drag-and-drop analytics, preset visualizations, and real-time reporting to help educational institutions (and other sectors) make data-informed decisions efficiently
Visit website ↗Deloitte LLP
Provides higher education institutions and public-sector organizations with consulting, risk, and analytics services to modernize data ecosystems, strengthen compliance, and enable data-driven strategy, governance, and institutional decision-making at scale.
Visit website ↗Datatelligent
Delivers AI-driven analytics and intelligence solutions that help organizations unify complex data, apply advanced models, and translate insights into informed decisions that improve performance, planning, and operational outcomes.
Visit website ↗Motivate Lab
Applies behavioral science and data-driven research to measure motivation, engagement, and behavior change, enabling institutions to design, test, and scale programs that drive meaningful social and educational impact.
Visit website ↗Wavicle Data Solutions LLC
Helps organizations modernize data foundations through cloud-native architecture, analytics, and AI, building scalable data platforms that support advanced insights and continuous decision-making.
Visit website ↗Collibra
Provides an enterprise data intelligence platform to govern, catalog, and protect data, ensuring trusted analytics, regulatory compliance, and consistent data usage across institutional systems.
Visit website ↗Explore every U.S. college in one conversation
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