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Campus Data Hubs (Snowflake) [1]

Campus Data Hubs are UIS-sponsored Snowflake database instances where campus Institutional Research (IR) developers and Data Scientists can combine and compare enterprise data with campus-supplied data in a single Snowflake instance.

Benefits of Campus Data Hubs:

  • A modern, scalable framework in Snowflake.
  • Options to add third-party solutions built on the Snowflake ecosystem.
  • Access to both CIW reporting data and original source data from enterprise systems.
  • An affordable and accessible way to combine campus and enterprise data.
  • Analytics can be shared back to Central Information Warehouse (CIW) to be used by a wider audience in CU-Data and Tableau reporting.

Who is eligible to use the service: Institutional Research and Central Data Analytics employees can receive access to each Snowflake database.

Data access approval from appropriate Data Management Groups is required.

More information: If you are using a CU VPN, you may also visit the CU Snowflake resource page [2] to find useful training and documentation on both Snowflake in general and the UIS Campus Data Hubs implementation of Snowflake.

Compatible Browsers: Snowflake Compatible Browsers [3]

Related services:  CIW [4], CU-Data [4], CU-SIS [5], CU-People [6]

Groups audience: 
University Information Services

Source URL:https://www.cu.edu/uis/service-catalog/campus-data-hubs-snowflake

Links
[1] https://www.cu.edu/uis/service-catalog/campus-data-hubs-snowflake [2] https://content.cu.edu/uis/CUonly/EnterpriseDataOfferings/snowflake.html [3] https://docs.snowflake.com/en/user-guide/setup.html [4] https://www.cu.edu/uis/service-catalog/central-information-warehouse-ciw [5] https://www.cu.edu/uis/cu-sis-campus-solutions-cs [6] https://www.cu.edu/uis/cu-people