Admissions & Enrollment
Unifies enrollment data across siloed systems so trends track over time and demand is forecast, not guessed
Explore solutionScaffold DataX
A higher-ed-ready data warehouse — automated at scale.
Scaffold DataX unifies ETL, AI, governance, warehousing, and analytics into one automated system — delivering trusted, AI-ready data without pipeline complexity.
- Patented Tech
- LMS · SIS · CRM · ERP
- ISO 27001
- SOC 2 Type II
Scaffold DataX perfectly aligns with our mission to leverage technology to enhance our academic offerings and administrative efficiency. We are confident that the significant improvements in our data handling capabilities will lead to better outcomes across our student, staff, and faculty stakeholder groups.
What is DataX
One engine for governed, AI-ready data.
Scaffold DataX is the all-in-one data engine that automates and operates a governed, higher-ed-ready data warehouse. Using patented technology, it extracts and unifies data across LMS, SIS, CRM, ERP, and other institutional systems — delivering complete, trusted, AI-ready data without complex pipeline management or fragmented tools.
Your warehouse, run for you.
Team capacity
Specialized engineers move from pipeline maintenance to strategic initiatives.
Automation
Every source system aggregated automatically — no manual extracts, no custom integrations.
Cost
One automated platform replaces a stack of tools and technologies.
Use cases
Start with the problem you actually have.
Every institution running DataX started with one high-stakes question it couldn't answer fast enough. Each of them ended up with the foundation underneath everything else.
Agentic AI
Builds the accurate, current, governed foundation first — the layer every AI initiative needs
Explore solutionCash Reporting
Centralizes cash data into a governed framework aligned to month-end close — right-time position, consistent across campuses, traceable to the source
Explore solutionEndowment & Fundraising
A 360° view across CRM, finance, alumni, and engagement — giving patterns visible, contributions forecastable
Explore solutionEngagement & Attendance
Unifies participation data, automates compliance reporting, flags disengaged students in time to matter
Explore solutionEnterprise
Centralizes all of it into one governed warehouse — no custom pipelines to build or maintain
Explore solutionLMS Data Resiliency
A continuously updated, governed copy of your course data outside production — three tiers, start where you are
Explore solutionMarketing & Recruitment
Unifies CRM, SIS, and marketing automation into one funnel view — where prospects drop off, what spend returned
Explore solutionRetention & Persistence
Live cross-system risk indicators while the term is still running, with interventions automated
Explore solutionStudent Success
One student view across SIS, LMS, CRM, and advising — intervention personalized and early, not generic and late
Explore solutionSystemwide Visibility
One neutral model makes campuses on different platforms comparable, without anyone changing software
Explore solutionWorkforce Pell
Correlates program alignment, outcomes, and state criteria across SIS, LMS, CRM, and state data — evidence you can defend
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Every one of these started as a single, high-stakes use case. Every one of them became the institution’s data foundation.
See the customer storiesFeatures
One platform to automate, govern, and activate institutional data.
DataX is three things that only work because they're the same thing: an automated warehouse, a continuously protected copy of your data, and AI that reads from the governed model rather than the raw systems underneath it.
Pillar 01
Automated Warehouse
One governed source of truth — built automatically.
Automated ingest
Patented technology connects to your LMS, SIS, CRM, ERP, and the point solutions around them through public and private APIs — and, where APIs don't expose what you need, through authenticated front-end access.
Unified, neutral data model
A higher-ed-specific structure your data is translated into, independent of the systems it came from. A student, a course, and an enrollment get defined once.
Extract, normalize, transform
Cleaned and mapped at the model layer, so definitions are reconciled one time instead of repeatedly in every downstream report.
No custom pipelines
Nothing for your team to build, nothing for your team to maintain. When a source system changes, the platform absorbs it.
Blueprints
Governed, reusable data structures built on the model — the objects your team and your AI both draw from. Once defined, they refresh automatically.
Live in 3–4 months, not 18–24
A functioning governed warehouse in a semester, not a construction project measured in fiscal years.
Pillar 02
Backup & Continuity
Institutional data continuously archived, protected, and recoverable.
Continuous data backup
Captured on an ongoing basis — not on a nightly or weekly cycle you find out was insufficient during an incident.
Secure cloud warehouse
The copy lives in your governed environment, built on Snowflake and hosted on AWS.
Vendor-independent copy
Your access doesn't depend on a source vendor's availability, roadmap, or goodwill.
Governance and compliance
Retention that stands up to Title IV, accreditation, and audit obligations, with traceable lineage from source record to submitted number.
Rapid, verified recovery
Restoration that has been tested, not assumed.
Pillar 03
AI on Top of Truth
Answers from your data — without heavy SQL skills.
Natural-language prompting
Ask in plain language. Show me first-year students in developmental math with no LMS activity in the last fourteen days. No query syntax, no knowing which table holds what.
AI-generated SQL — shown, not hidden
Prompts translate into SQL against the neutral model, and the SQL is visible. Your analysts can read it, verify it, and reuse it. A drafting partner, not a black box.
Guided analysis
The assistant helps shape the question as well as answer it — surfacing relevant dimensions and suggesting the follow-up an experienced analyst would ask next.
Trusted, governed output
Every answer comes from the same governed model that produces your compliance reporting. There is one definition of active student, and the AI uses it.
Bring your own agent
Use the embedded assistant, point your existing campus AI platform at governed blueprints instead of raw source systems, or do both.
No data team required
A registrar, an advisor, a dean, or a CBO gets to an answer without opening a ticket.
The Foundation
Built for institutions that get audited.
Security & certification
ISO 27001, certified by Schellman. SOC 2 Type II. Data masking for sensitive fields. FERPA-aligned handling of student records.
Architecture
Built on Snowflake, hosted on AWS. Sized for the volume and velocity of statewide systems, not just single campuses.
Access control
Role-based permissions inherited by everything downstream, including AI. Users can't prompt their way to data they aren't entitled to see.
Integrations
LMS: Canvas, Brightspace, Blackboard. SIS: Banner, PeopleSoft. ERP: Workday. CRM: Slate, Admission Pros. Plus flat files, point solutions, and external datasets including IPEDS and workforce outcomes data.
Patented
Patent awarded 2024. The automation is the product; it isn't a services engagement wearing a software label.
DataX resources
Plan your data foundation.
Go deeper on the platform, then model the staffing, infrastructure, tooling, support, and implementation costs of building it internally.
Free guide
The definitive guide to DataX.
An in-depth look at how automated data warehousing is changing data management in higher education — and what it takes to strengthen governance and streamline operations at your institution.
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Platform planning
Institutional Data Platform Cost Calculator.
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- SOC 2 Type II
- ISO 27001
- FERPA Aligned