Software as a service (SAAS) services featuring software for use in integrating and analyzing data from educational institutions and applying predictive analytics in order to optimize academic outcomes, providing higher education administrators, faculty and advisors with information about student behavior and engagement, recommending and facilitating interventions to improve student success, measuring effectiveness of educational initiatives and innovations, tracking and assessing student progress, tracking student, faculty and staff engagement, providing insights and recommendations for improving academic and career outcomes in the field of education, and facilitating interaction between students, faculty, advisors, counselors, staff and administrators