Case studies
How Bulungula Incubator reduced reporting times by 70%
Industry
Non-profit organizations
What we did
Fully automated data flows from siloed apps into one source of truth
Outcomes
Reducing analytics, data cleaning, and reporting times by 70%
Industry
Non-profit organizations
What we did
Fully automated data flows from siloed apps into one source of truth
Outcomes
Reducing analytics, data cleaning, and reporting times by 70%
Background
Bulungula Incubator (BI), a non-profit organization, envisions eradicating poverty sustainably within a generation while enhancing community cohesion and vitality in South Africa's Elliotdale District.
Bulungula Incubator has amassed significant impact data from their projects, trust within the community and experience on a deep scale that they are leveraging for broader impact. To this end, the company works cooperatively with government and other organizations in supporting and providing insights into how to set up systems and run interventions similar to Bulungula Incubator. To learn more, contact info@bulungulaincubator.org.
“With a vast amount of data spread across various platforms, the challenge was to gather, store, and present it coherently without disturbing our workflow. By implementing Coupler.io for automated data workflows, we now save two full weeks of manual data work every month. This has also led to an 80% minimum enhancement in streamlined analytics, data cleaning, and reporting processes.
Challenge
Ryan Banks, the Data and Monitoring and Evaluation (M&E) manager at the BI developed an in-house data management system for business monitoring and evaluation but it required a heavy manual workload. The system's effectiveness heavily relied on the consistent movement of data among disparate siloed platforms.
The inefficiency associated with manual data transfer significantly impeded the organization's capacity to leverage its existing data optimally. The process of manually inputting and capturing data was not only time-intensive but also susceptible to errors. Employees had to spend a considerable amount of their time on mundane data-related activities. To do that, they had to limit their vital, in-person community development activities, such as stakeholder engagement and delivering training on how to use the M&E system.
Result
Coupler.io has revolutionized Bulungula Incubator's data management processes. It enabled smooth and automated data transfers from dozens of Airtable bases and into BigQuery. Bulungula is now able to fuel their Google Looker Studio dashboards with the fresh data with no effort on their end and close to zero manual work.
The dashboards they build on top of these integrations empower program managers to remotely monitor program statuses and operations in the field. At the same time, their management team can now retrieve comprehensive insights and make informed decisions about the projects with ease.
“In my experience of working with different data management platforms, I have found that using a platform that has a good customer support base that is responsive is imperative. This, along with the easy to use Coupler.io platform is the reason we chose to go with the platform. Without Coupler.io, achieving our current level of data visualization would not have been possible.
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