NDUS leverages Databricks Data Intelligence Platform to revolutionize higher education management

Key Takeaways

[Music] ND or North Dakota University system serves our entire State we have 11 public higher education institutions that we govern and oversee for the state of North [Music] Dakota nus uses data and AI to provide as much access and value to the data that we have uh we do not want to be a barrier for our campuses the data bricks data intelligence platform is significantly upping our game it's allowing us to do so much more with so much less resources and you can do it all in one place within the datab bricks platform unit catalog is allowing us to marry both our structured and unstructured data anything from documents to traditional Erp data models that we create gen models traditional ml models anything else that was governed by unity catalog we can do right in one place now we can lay our AI processes right on top to our campuses and our students and our stakeholders seamlessly [Music] if we did not have that data bricks platform it would have taken at least two to three times longer to get anything we want probably into production and so it allows us to do so much more with a much smaller team uh because everything is just in one place currently we're using dbrx as a part of a rag application for our policy documents we have our state board policy documents procedures our entire state law and Constitution all in one place and then dbrx is being used to leverage and extract anything that the user would like out of those documents and it works incredibly well but I'm the most excited about is what can the model do in a system when they're working together with other models and other architecture how can we now accomplish these bigger goals if we're trying to unlock the most value we can out of all our data not just some of our data um then we're going to be able to do that