Macmillan Learning’s Skyfactor Integrates its Student Success and Retention Platform with N2N's Illuminate

Macmillan Learning, a premier learning solutions company, today announced a strategic partnership between Skyfactor (formerly EBI-Mapworks) and N2N Services. For more than twenty years, Skyfactor has empowered hundreds of higher education institutions to harness data from the college experience in ways that materially impact retention, persistence, and student success rates. The Skyfactor product suite features two awardwinning offerings, the Mapworks student success and retention service, and the Benchworks program assessment instrument. This new collaboration with software integration provider N2N Services will provide tools and API's that automate data exchanges between Mapworks and Learning Management Systems (LMS) or Student Information Systems (SIS). Through this partnership with N2N, administrators, faculty, and student support staff will have even deeper insight into the lives and behaviors of students, which will enable them to better serve their student populations.

"Too often information about student performance, financial aid, new student enrollment, and fees are stored in disparate data systems found throughout an institution's infrastructure. Compartmentalizing data in this way, while typical, can be counterproductive to achieving the type of holistic perspective many higher education institutions are seeking to acquire," explained Macmillan Learning Institutional General Manager, Craig Bleyer. This is why we are thrilled to work closely with N2N, as this partnership provides customers with a 360-degree view of the student experience, which is integral to the mission of Skyfactor and the expectations from the marketplace."

N2N's Illuminate is a turnkey API integration platform specifically built for the needs of higher education. lluminate includes modules to build, secure, integrate, and share APIs. The platform can be used for integrations of all types and by any sized institution. Illuminate allows institutional business users to easily connect their systems, whether on premise, hosted, or in the cloud easily and securely.

"N2N is pleased to partner with SkyFactor to enable real-time data integration. We're confident that Skyfactor's student success and retention solutions, powered by N2N's integration strategy, will provide real-time and interactive solutions needed to support students, faculty, and staff worldwide," said Kiran Kodithala CEO and founder of N2N Services Inc. "N2N is committed to collaborations, such as with Skyfactor, that have a direct impact on student success and student progress towards graduation."

Institutions who utilize the integrated instance of Skyfactor and N2N will always be able to access real-time student data to leverage throughout interventions and remediation actions, with integration available for use beginning fall 2018.

For more information, please contact the Skyfactor sales and customer teams at: http://go.skyfactor.com/contact-request.html

About Macmillan Learning:

Macmillan Learning improves lives through learning. Our legacy of excellence in education informs our approach to using user-centered design, learning science, impact research, and data mining to develop worldclass content and pioneering products that are empathetic, highly effective, and drive improved outcomes. Through deep partnership with the world's best researchers, educators, administrators, and developers, we facilitate teaching and learning opportunities that spark student engagement and improve outcomes. We provide educators with tailored solutions designed to inspire curiosity and measure progress. Our commitment to teaching and discovery upholds our mission to improve lives through learning. To learn more, please visit http://www.macmillanlearning.com or see us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIN or join our Macmillan Community.

About Skyfactor:

A Macmillan Learning company, Skyfactor Mapworks (formerly known as EBI) makes program assessment easy. Mapworks is a proven student retention and success system that considers the holistic student experience when predicting risk. Skyfactor Mapworks equips institutions with the right information to empower the right choices for their students and their programs. For more information, please visit www.skyfactor.com

About N2N:

N2N Services Inc. is a leader in enterprise application and data integration for higher education. N2N's Illuminate platform is a cloud based SaaS platform providing standards based, turnkey integration enabling organizations to plug-in new SaaS applications in a matter of minutes to meet strategic institution goals. Our API integration platform is used by more than 150 institutions to enable enterprises to meet strategic integration objectives. N2N Services Inc. is based in Atlanta, GA. Learn more about N2N Services Inc. and the Illuminate platform by visiting our website at http://www.illuminateapp.com/