
Data analytics solution for a SaaS platform
The customer is a US eLearning provider for K-12 focused on professional development solutions, STEM curriculum & programs.

Key achievements
The Aristek team empowered the US eLearning provider’s SaaS platform with a robust data analytics system.
1,5 | years of fruitful work |
>100 Tb | of data |
Challenge
The client owns a SaaS platform specializing in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics). The competition in the client industry has been fueled by the demand for robust analytics tools, as these tools provide critical insights that help companies make informed decisions.
The company had a few other data-related challenges to be addressed:
Solution
To enable the management of all data types, workloads, and analytics, the Aristek Systems team suggested developing a powerful and flexible data management solution that will streamline administrative tasks, track student progress, pinpoint gaps in learning content, provide comprehensive analytics for internal stakeholders to make proactive decisions across sales, forecast platform features usage, and more.
Key features were to include:
Project scope
The project used a state-of-the-art technology stack, including dbt for data transformation and Pulumi for Infrastructure as Code (IaC) management. This significantly accelerated the development and deployment processes, ensuring the flexibility and scalability of the solution.
Aristek experts utilized AWS data security tools such as encryption, access control, and activity monitoring to comply with OWASP and FERPA standards.
Here’s how the team delivered the solution step by step:
During the development process, product owners and the tech lead were joining the team during SCRUM ceremonies. The stakeholders were shown the progress for each sprint. Such a сontinuous collaboration has made it possible to track the subtasks’ completeness and prioritize effectively.
In addition, the data security specialist was also present and co-operated with the team. He regularly audited the development process and shared valuable security recommendations.
Within the analytics section for teaching staff, the teacher can see a variety of analytical tools and dashboards with just a few clicks. They allow to filter data by the following criteria:
- Student results for a specific time period.
- Student’s grade.
- By topics covered, etc.
Team
Tools & technologies
Results
The customer received a fully GDPR and FERPA-compliant data analytics solution that improved operational efficiency and provided actionable insights for informed decision-making. An important project feature within the administrative analytics was that internal data analysts can create year-over-year ad-hoc reports on the following topics:
Creating a robust data warehouse was the cornerstone of this project. This critical infrastructure not only laid the foundation for the entire system but also enabled the introduction of new features for end users. Here are the opportunities it opened up for business:
- The opportunity to augment the platform with custom analytical tools based on cleansed and thoroughly prepared data.
- Self-service data ingestion and transformation services for employees.
- ML-based tools for data-driven predictions or decisions, and many more.
Overall, the main long-term advantage of such a well-organized system is ensuring all data components work together efficiently and provide timely data insights that can be an unrivaled competitive advantage in any industry.