Institutions that stopped waiting on their data

Mountwest Community & Technical College

Mountwest Community & Technical College turned its annual program snapshots from weeks of manual work into an Argos report that runs in less than 30 minutes, and made program performance a regular part of academic conversations.

Argos|Community College|Institutional Research|Student Success

Texas A&M University

240 trained Argos users ask Data Agent questions of governed student data in plain language, and every answer shows the SQL behind it. Setup took one day.

Argos|Data Agent|IT|Public University|Registrar

Alvin College

Alvin College built a Student Progress and Completion report in Argos that shows leaders, advisors, and deans where every student stands, and who is close to finishing.

Argos|Community College|Institutional Research|Student Success

Loyola Marymount University

Twice a year, LMU’s Registrar certifies student athletes for NCAA competition. With Argos and Evisions Professional Services, each Progress Toward Degree calculation went from 30–60 minutes to 10–25, and the last two rounds were the fastest ever.

Argos|Private Institution|Registrar

Alvin College

A payroll variance dashboard replaced a line-by-line read of more than 300 pages of reports. 580 records became 355 variances, then 194 above a 25 percent threshold, caught before payroll was finalized.

Argos|Community College|Finance|Human Resources

University of Sharjah

Argos had been used for on-demand reports. Its scheduling features now produce and deliver more than 10,700 enrollment letters automatically.

Admissions|Argos|International|Registrar

The Citadel

Financial Aid broke ROTC invoicing into layers in Argos, turning a manual process for more than 400 award recipients into a consistent, automated one.

Argos|Finance|Financial Aid|Public University

College of the Sequoias

College of the Sequoias connected Argos to Invoke Learning’s Data Lakehouse on Snowflake, built data governance into the migration, and cut report update time from weeks to hours.

Argos|Community College|Institutional Research|IT

Stetson University

Staff had relied on Excel shadow systems and spent more time arguing over which number was right than deciding what to do. Reporting now runs from one reliable source, and academic standing notices go out automatically.

Argos|Institutional Research|Private Institution|Registrar

Oakland University

Oakland rebuilt its stop-out reporting in Argos. A query that took more than 20 minutes returns in under 30 seconds, and every cycle gives back over 40 minutes that other offices spent waiting.

Argos|IT|Public University|Student Success

Fashion Institute of Technology

One-click automation replaced manual letter generation, which now takes under 10 minutes. Data accuracy reached 99 percent and report verification time fell by up to 90 percent.

Admissions|Argos|Institutional Research|Public University

St. John’s University

Aid award letters that took days of manual work, weekends included, are now automated, alongside more than 100 DataBlocks and 1,200 reports.

Argos|Financial Aid|IT|Private Institution

University of Idaho

The University of Idaho’s Financial Aid Services team replaced 40+ Banner jobs and weekend spreadsheet work with Argos dashboards, turning a week-long Pell Grant process into one that takes under an hour.

Argos|Financial Aid|Public University

Emerson College

Emerson College replaced a powerful but hard-to-use BI tool with Argos and met the goals it had set: a centralized data repository, clearer dashboards, and end users who run their own reports.

Argos|Institutional Research|IT|Private Institution

Lamar Institute of Technology

Facing new Texas reporting mandates with a small, newly hired team, LIT brought in Evisions Professional Services to rework its Argos DataBlocks and reports, and finished the work within a month.

Community College|Institutional Research|Professional Services

Holmesglen Institute of TAFE

Notices that staff had printed, stuffed, and mailed now go out as HTML emails built in Argos, cutting postage and paper costs and getting faster replies from students.

Argos|Finance|International|Registrar

University of the West of Scotland

Students request a transcript through the student portal and Argos generates the PDF. In 2022 the university issued just over 3,500 this way.

Argos|International|Registrar

Maine Maritime Academy

When StarRez moved to the cloud, Maine Maritime Academy’s IT team lost direct database access. The Argos REST Connector, live in just a few hours, kept reporting running with very little downtime.

Argos|Higher Education|IT|Public University

New Mexico Junior College

New Mexico Junior College replaced a static, hand-adjusted statistics PDF with an Argos-powered FACT Book that is always live, runs for any semester, and needs no human intervention.

Argos|Community College|Higher Education|Institutional Research

American University of Beirut

Working with Evisions partner Naseej, the American University of Beirut built an Argos dashboard that gives advisors an uncluttered view of each student and stores their goals and notes straight in Banner.

Argos|International|Registrar|Student Success

Imperial Valley College

Reports and data had been scattered across tools on individual desks. Argos consolidated them into one browser-based location the college can sustain.

Argos|Community College|Institutional Research

Bridgewater State University

What began as a report to find student teachers for loaner iPads became a card-swipe check-in tool built on Argos and Banner data, now used by more than 30 departments and groups.

Argos|IT|Public University|Student Success

American University of the Middle East

The biggest private university in Kuwait traded slow, in-house report development for Argos, then watched it spread from IT to Finance, Procurement, Registration, and beyond.

Argos|Finance|International|IT|Registrar

La Salle University Case Study

La Salle University’s Office of Undergraduate Admission traded slow Microsoft Access reports for Argos dashboards, and presentation prep that once meant chasing ad-hoc requests now takes five minutes.

Admissions|Argos|Private Institution

West Valley – Mission Community College District

The district needed purchase orders Banner could not produce without modifying baseline code. An Evisions Professional Services engineer and FormFusion delivered a fully customized template.

Community College|Finance|FormFusion|Higher Education|Professional Services

University of Idaho

The University of Idaho replaced an unsupported reporting tool with Argos, cut report lead time by 85%, and put reports in the hands of end users across campus instead of waiting on developers for data dumps.

Argos|Higher Education|IT|Public University

Nicolet College

Within a few months the college had a couple of dozen DataBlocks in use. Nightly reports flag data entry issues to the Registrar, and advisors hear daily about students who add or drop.

Argos|Community College|Higher Education|Institutional Research|Registrar|Student Success

Liberty University

With more than 100,000 students on campus and online, Liberty University runs as many as 1,300 scheduled Argos reports daily and weekly to catch problems early and keep the campus informed.

Argos|Higher Education|IT|Private Institution|Registrar

Southern Illinois University

An average of 26,000 tuition bills a cycle moved from print and post to electronic delivery, saving the university more than $88,000 a year and giving students 24/7 access to their bills.

Finance|FormFusion|Higher Education|Public University

Ana G. Mendez University System

An IT programmer and two members of the institutional statistics office built a system-wide dashboard that more than 50 managers used within a year, with five-year trends across three universities and 17 locations.

Argos|Higher Education|Institutional Research|IT|Private Institution

Missouri State University

Argos rolled out campus-wide in under a year. The university now runs more than 300 production reports and has trained 70 DataBlock designers, 156 report writers, and over 1,000 faculty and staff viewers.

Argos|Higher Education|IT|Public University

Rockhurst University

Rockhurst University needed reporting that was affordable, easy, quick to deploy, and secure. An early adopter, it tested Argos before general release and now runs Admissions, Alumni, Finance, Registrar, and IT reporting on it.

Admissions|Argos|Finance|Higher Education|Private Institution|Registrar

University of Arkansas at Little Rock

To bring its “Fast Forward” strategic plan to life, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock used Argos Dashboards and OLAP Data Cubes to give users and executives real-time access to the KPIs behind it.

Argos|Higher Education|Institutional Research|Public University

North Orange County Community College District

Every department across the campuses had been building its own reports or hiring consultants. The district now runs centralized, secure reporting, with training built for more than 300 users.

Argos|Community College|Higher Education|Institutional Research|IT

Cuyahoga Community College

Argos went live across four campuses, and scheduled data-quality reports now find problem student records and email the results to the staff member who owns them, with nobody having to remember to run anything.

Argos|Community College|Higher Education|Institutional Research|IT

Lansing Community College

Staff got back 240 hours a year, and as many as 19 reports for one administrator were consolidated into a single DataBlock.

Argos|Community College|Financial Aid|Higher Education|IT

Butler Community College

Butler Community College paired Argos with IData’s Data Cookbook to replace siloed, manual reporting with a single, reliable view of institutional data. One retention report that took 48 staff hours a year now runs with a click.

Argos|Community College|Higher Education|Institutional Research

Stephen F. Austin State University

With Banner newly live and staff stretched thin, Stephen F. Austin State University partnered with Evisions on a transcript built to Texas requirements, completed in less than half the time an in-house build would have taken.

Higher Education|Professional Services|Public University|Registrar

City College of San Francisco

City College of San Francisco stopped printing and filing paper check copies. IntelleCheck now turns each check copy into a searchable PDF, saving the college over $100,000 a year.

Community College|Finance|Higher Education|IntelleCheck

University of Wyoming

The University of Wyoming stopped driving cases of envelopes to a print shop. FormFusion now delivers up to 10,000 student bills a month as PDFs with an email alert, and payments arrive faster.

Finance|FormFusion|Higher Education|Public University

Northwest Nazarene University

Facing a costly, time-consuming BI upgrade, NNU evaluated Argos instead. It was installed campus-wide in a little over an hour, and within four months NNU was automating budget reports and rethinking fundraising and scholarships.

Advancement|Argos|Finance|Higher Education|Private Institution

Point Loma Nazarene University

Point Loma needed one tool to report across PowerFAIDS, JICS, Blackboard, and Jenzabar CX. With Argos, IT builds the DataBlocks and departments run their own reports.

Argos|Higher Education|IT|Private Institution

Hilbert College

Hilbert College needed one reporting tool that could reach every campus system. Within a few months of choosing Argos, it had over 30 working reports and several dashboards, and nearly every department had the information it needs.

Argos|Higher Education|Institutional Research|IT|Private Institution

Australian Catholic University

Australian Catholic University replaced week-long spreadsheet reporting with live admissions dashboards and scheduled reports that are waiting for staff on all six campuses each morning.

Admissions|Argos|Higher Education|International

Lehigh University

Scheduled reports took over the daily production work the advancement team had been doing by hand. Forty reports now go out by email across campus every week.

Advancement|Argos|Higher Education|Private Institution

University Of Leeds

The University of Leeds replaced unstandardised, department-level reporting with Argos, started fast with pre-built DataBlocks from the CO-OP, then automated degree certificates, student letters, and applicant emails.

Admissions|Argos|Higher Education|International|Registrar

Jacksonville University

Jacksonville University consolidated a sprawl of reporting systems into Argos, cut $37,000 in licenses in a year, gave IT back 15 hours a week, and opened reporting to 16 departments and offices.

Argos|Higher Education|IT|Private Institution

SUNY Adirondack

SUNY Adirondack went from one employee hand-building every report to departments running their own. Report usage quadrupled, and the data now supports targeted recruitment and outreach to students who are struggling.

Admissions|Argos|Community College|Higher Education|Student Success

West Virginia Network

WVNet hosts Argos centrally for 14 of its 24 member institutions. Schools that once reported alone now share ideas and DataBlocks, and one college estimates the switch saves it $10,000 a year.

Argos|Higher Education|IT