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Microsoft Cloud solutions are industry leaders on their own, yet they are even more powerful when combined. Combined, there are numerous benefits including a better end user experience, improved security, financial efficiencies, and IT transferable skills. From a user experience perspective, Microsoft’s integrated cloud enables a connected experience with familiar tools like email, chat, and more that can be orchestrated on the back end using Dynamics 365 and Power Platform to drive automated and personalised experiences. All of this comes on a secure platform that leverages Azure Active Directory for identity management. From an IT perspective, many of the skills for IT transfer between cloud solutions, making it much easier for staff to work across solutions.

Microsoft's integrated security platform provides market leading end-to-end extended detection and response (XDR) and SIEM/SOAR IEM/SOAR capabilities for modern higher education institutions. As schools innovate in their blended classrooms and across hybrid IT infrastructure, Microsoft cloud-powered, AI-enabled security tools can help schools do more with less. Schools require integrated, intelligent, and automated solutions that can help compensate for resourcing constraints, improve digital safety, and lay a solid foundation for Zero Trust Security. The Microsoft Security platform empowers schools by reducing financial risks caused by cyber-attacks and increasing cybersecurity insurance premiums while improving student safety and safeguarding student privacy.

Data is at the center of everything an institution does today and powers the insights that can drive what it should do tomorrow. Without a unified data platform, you end up with information for key areas—from your Student Information System (SIS) to your Learning Management System (LMS)—stored in a range of distinct silos that don’t talk to each other in useful ways. Microsoft Dataverse is a cloud-based, smart, secure, and scalable low-code data platform. Dataverse, integrates with your existing systems so you can start small with one workload as a trial and add other workloads over time, or deploy the full solution all at once. Whichever route you choose, we customise deployment for your systems and requirements. Dataverse includes a base set of standard tables that cover typical scenarios—such as student status, program level, course history, area of interest, and many more—but you can also create custom tables specific to your institution. Both standard and custom tables within Dataverse provide a secure, cloud-based, and central storage option for your data. (See more on information on What is Microsoft Dataverse? - Power Apps | Microsoft Docs)

On Microsoft’s integrated cloud, your data becomes readily usable for a variety of applications, including Microsoft Teams, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, and more. With your data speaking a common language, developing cutting-edge education solutions and harnessing analytics becomes easier than ever before.

Additionally, Microsoft is building open-source modules for common higher education data sources and we and our Open Education Analytics (OEA) Partners are building higher education related open-source packages relevant to higher education use cases like enrollment and admissions modelling, and academically at-risk students. (See Welcome to OEA | Open Education Analytics)

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