Case Study
University of North Texas Creates a Real-Time Hadoop Data Lake to Enhance the Student Experience
CASE STUDY / UNT About UNT One of the nation’s largest universities Consists of 12 schools and colleges, 42,000 students, and 380,000 active alumni Offers 100 bachelor’s, 83 master’s, and 37 doctoral degree programs Main campuses in Denton, Dallas, and Ft. Worth, TX Objectives To enable their ‘Insights Analytics’ initiative, which provides real-time data to improve enrollment, retention, and the overall student experience, ensuring the university’s strategic competitive advantage. Solution A central part of the project included building a Hadoop data lake that provides a collective repository for the streaming, real-time data that Attunity Replicate ingests from several sources for analytic and