Unizin Data Platform

Spec sheet

Purpose

UDP integrates, aggregates, cleans, and models teaching and learning data to support analytics, data science, and research.Read 7 Oct 2026 · resources.unizin.org

Audience

The platform is designed for higher education institutions using learning data to support advising, institutional research, business intelligence, and research.Read 7 Oct 2026 · unizin.org

Security

The platform overview describes UDP as having a secure, scalable cloud-native architecture; access to its context store requires approval from an institutional UDP Data steward and is restricted by IP address.Read 7 Oct 2026 · resources.unizin.org

Headquarters

Austin, Texas, United StatesRead 28 Sep 2026 · unizin.org

Founded

2015Read 28 Sep 2026 · unizin.org

Cloud services

UDP provides data lake and mart services that institutions can use with their existing analytics, BI, reporting, data science, and data virtualization tools.Read 7 Oct 2026 · unizin.org

Data standards

UDP supports the Unizin Common Data Model for context data and 1EdTech Caliper for behavioral data.Read 7 Oct 2026 · resources.unizin.org

Deployment option

Institutions may use UDP as a fully managed PaaS or purchase a license through Google Cloud Marketplace and operate it in their own Google Cloud Platform account.Read 7 Oct 2026 · resources.unizin.org

Features

It normalizes data into a common dictionary and automatically manages surrogate keys to associate learning data from different tools.Read 7 Oct 2026 · resources.unizin.org

Hosting

UDP is a cloud-native, single-tenant platform that integrates and warehouses data from SIS, LMS, and LMS-integrated tools.Read 7 Oct 2026 · resources.unizin.org

Integration formats

Context data uses CSV and is delivered every 24 hours; behavioral event data uses JSON and is sent in real time.Read 7 Oct 2026 · resources.unizin.org

Learning tool integrations

Learning tool integrations are typically developed by vendors, and a Caliper event stream can be plug and play.Read 7 Oct 2026 · resources.unizin.org

LMS integration

Unizin currently supports Canvas LMS through automated, fully managed integrations that institutions configure once.Read 7 Oct 2026 · resources.unizin.org

SIS integration

There are no packaged, fully managed SIS integrations; institutions must build an integration that conforms to the UDP SIS loading schema.Read 7 Oct 2026 · resources.unizin.org

Support and onboarding

Unizin offers UDP onboarding, training, and concierge services to help institutions start using learning data.Read 7 Oct 2026 · unizin.org

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

• Education Analytics Software#18 of 586.8
• Learning Analytics Software#19 of 256.7