We are excited to announce progress with our newest tools. Our Innovator Group has been helping us test the updated Platinum Demand Analytics tools and Student Academic Planning tool. The big breakthrough is the addition of an engine that processes and interprets unmet degree requirements. Both tools leverage this patent-pending business intelligence engine to predicts/displays course needs of each progressing student back to Academic Departments and Students/Advisors, respectively.

This breakthrough, an addition to existing functionality that process historical demand and demand trends, allows departments and students to make decisions based on true need (not need which has been constrained and altered by availability in a fixed schedule. This approach helps answer question that, previously, were difficult or impossible to address like:

Has the number of seats for a course that are historically offered superficially constrained demand (especially if the fill ratio on historical sections is high)? How much does this lack of availability impact your students' ability to progress toward degree or academic career completion?

Is historical demand superficially inflated because other courses that meet the same requirements are not available to student?

More to come as the institutions apply these finding on their campuses to build better schedules!