Using smarter data to strengthen higher education stewardship
by Kacey Hertan
8 hours → minutes | Processing time for a 300-million-record data job after moving to Databricks
1/2 day | To complete a student segmentation analysis that previously took two analysts two weeks
The Office for Students regulates more than 400 higher education providers across England and manages data spanning millions of student records over decades. As the scale and complexity of analysis grew, legacy systems could no longer keep pace. By moving to Databricks, the organisation transformed how its teams access, analyse and act on data, dramatically accelerating insight generation while creating a more flexible foundation for AI-driven decision support.
