Consulting for Educational Institutions with Data, Automation and AI Projects
Helping schools, educators and educational institutions modernize services and operations with Microsoft Cloud, Power Platform, and AI.
Educational Consulting Options for Everyone
How We Partner with Educational Leaders
Expertise in Compliance
Our consultants are knowledgeable about the specific security and compliance requirements of FERPA and other regulatory standards.
Maximizing Microsoft
We help you maximize your existing Microsoft licenses by integrating Power Platform capabilities with Microsoft 365 and Azure services.
Empowering Employees
Consultants build initial solutions and train staff to maintain & build applications using the low-code Power Platform, driving innovation.
Efficient Deployment
We help expedite digital transformation projects, moving intitutions off legacy, manual, and paper-based processes.Flexible Engagements
Options ranging from end-to-end projects, fractional consulting, virtual mentoring and quickstarts.
Best Practices
Implementation through governance and best practices that prioritizes security, scalability, and long-term sustainability.Solutions for Educational Institutions
Student Success & Equity
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Comprehensive Power BI dashboards: Track attendance, grades, graduation rates, and intervention outcomes across departments.
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Predictive insights: Use machine learning models to forecast student risk factors and proactively deploy support services.
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Actionable reporting: Provide administrators, faculty, and counselors with real-time and tailored reports that identify achievement gaps by demographics, programs, or campuses and drive measurable improvements in student success.
Modern Apps for Schools
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Digital transformation with Power Apps: Replace outdated paper processes with secure, mobile-friendly apps for enrollment, facilities requests, and financial aid applications.
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Workflow automation: Streamline approvals and notifications so staff spend less time on manual tasks and more time supporting students.
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Accessibility & inclusion: Build apps that meet accessibility standards, ensuring all students and staff can engage seamlessly.
Smarter Education Services
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Process automation with Power Automate: Eliminate repetitive tasks like approvals, case management, and reporting while freeing up resources to focus on teaching, research, and student engagement.
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Simplified workflows: Connect systems across HR, finance, and student services to reduce administrative burden.
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Case tracking & resolution: Provide staff with tools to manage student or faculty requests efficiently, ensuring accountability and transparency.
AI Agents for Students & Citizens
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Copilot Studio agents: Deploy AI-powered virtual assistants along with multilingual options that provide 24/7 support for admissions, HR, financial aid, and staff inquiries.
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Self-service portals: Empower students, parents, and community members to access information instantly without waiting for office hours.
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Scalable engagement: Reduce call center and administrative load while improving satisfaction through faster, more personalized responses.
Connected Data at Scale
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Unified data ecosystems: Integrate student information systems, learning management platforms, and institutional records using Microsoft Fabric and Azure.
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Predictive modeling: Monitor performance metrics and forecast enrollment demand, resource needs, and student outcomes to guide long-term planning.
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Data governance & compliance: Ensure FERPA and other regulatory standards are met with secure, centralized data management.
Ready to Modernize Your Educational Institution with Microsoft?
Pragmatic Works helps educational institutions with expert consulting in Power BI, Power Apps, Power Automate, Azure, Dynamics 365, Copilot and AI agents, Fabric and Power Pages, turning complex technology into simple solutions that drive real results.
Copilot Studio
Nothing has proven to have more ROI than artificial intelligence as far as student and educator interactions and taking pressure off staffing costs. With existing staff, development of these solutions is difficult.
Ways we can help:
- Chatbot development
- Identify with your team and construct process improvement with autonomous agents
Dynamics 365 CRM
Dynamics 365 customization and configuration for educators, administrators and staff can take many organizations months or years. Iterate into perfection with smaller fractional sprints where the app is constantly improving.
Ways we can help:
- Support requests from your staff
- Constant improvement to your D365 environment
- Handle more difficult coding requests outside the experience of your team
Power Apps
Model-Driven and Canvas apps are the perfect tool for constant process improvement. Development teams are drowning with requests to rapidly eliminate old processes.
Ways we can help:
- Elimination of paperwork by building a steady stream of applications.
- Handle support, security and development requests.
- Install and maintain governance with the COE (Center of Excellence) Toolkit.
Power Pages
Empower your educators to access and update their data directly on your website—minimizing support requests and creating a more satisfying user experience.
Ways we can help:
- Deeper development outside of your team's expertise.
- Manage and maintain security and governance for your sites.
- Constantly improve your existing sites and add new functionality.
Power Automate
Automating processes through Cloud Flows and Desktop Flows can lead to amazing ROI and a reduction in manual paperwork.
Ways we can help:
- Automate paper approvals and other workflows each month.
- Constant process improvement to help employee productivity.
- Monitor and administer workflows.
Microsoft Fabric
The newest enterprise platform from Microsoft for data analytics at scale has quite the learning curve and many teams are struggling to implement this amazing platform.
Ways we can help:
- Manage and develop new data loading processes (ETL).
- Design and build advanced data models to meet your specific institutional requirements.
- Write complex queries that might be out of the expertise for your team.
Power Platform and Microsoft Copilot Governance and Administration
Many organizations are great at building applications with the Power Platform but lack the knowledge to administer the environment and have no one dedicated to do this.
Ways we can help:
- Improve governance by installing and maintaining the Center of Excellence (COE) Toolkit
- Handle the requests for new environments and new security requests.
Power BI
While building reports and dashboards in Power BI is powerful and easy to learn, it can prove challenging to go from junior to senior skills for more complex reports.
Ways we can help:
- Tackle advanced DAX queries to solve your most complex reporting challenges.
- Reduce your reporting and dashboard backlog.
Project Managment
Accelerate your IT, AI, and software initiatives with expert fractional project management—flexible leadership, measurable results
Ways we can help:
- Transform your organization into an Agile methodology
- Program and project leadership during important rollouts
- Work on process optimization
- Work to transform your existing PMO team with training and mentorship
Why Pragmatic Works
Pragmatic Works is a trusted Microsoft partner serving 97% of the Fortune 100 and organizations across 55+ countries.
Our mission is simple: make complex Microsoft technology impactful and easy to adopt.
With proven experience in the public and private sector, we help educational institutions improve operational efficiency, deliver student and educator services, and ensure compliance through secure, data-driven solutions built on Microsoft Power Platform, Azure, and Copilot.
We are a certified Microsoft Gold Partner® with over 11 years of experience as Power Platform functional consultants. We have proudly worked with industry leaders such as Cisco, FedEx, Hess, Pfizer, RoomsToGo, Tyson, and more.
97% of fortune 100 companies trust us
Thousands of companies use Pragmatic Works to learn how to best develop and administer their analytics and data systems.
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