Nuventive develops planning and improvement software for higher education institutions that need to connect goals, evidence, and action. Since 2000, Nuventive has focused on helping colleges and universities use information in context, so strategic initiatives, assessment work, and institutional priorities are not separated from the data needed to evaluate progress.
Its cloud-based offerings support initiatives such as strategic planning, accreditation, learning outcomes, program review, general education, student success, sustainability, and administrative outcomes. By combining planning workflows with analytics, reporting, and supporting services, Nuventive helps institutions monitor progress, coordinate action across units, and turn planning into an ongoing improvement process rather than a periodic compliance exercise.
Offerings, Capabilities, and Integrations
Nuventive’s offerings center on data-informed improvement. The company provides a cloud environment where institutions can organize plans, measures, evidence, narratives, and follow-up actions in one place, giving leadership, faculty, and staff role-based visibility into priorities and progress.
Nuventive is designed to work with existing campus systems rather than replace them outright. It supports LMS connectivity, interactive analytics and dashboards, and Microsoft-centric environments that include Azure, Microsoft 365, and Power BI. Nuventive also extends its software with implementation and ongoing support services, plus partner integrations that bring academic planning, curriculum, business intelligence, and other institutional data into day-to-day decision-making.
Products and Services
- Nuventive Improvement Platform: Flagship cloud platform that links plans, measurements, evidence, and analytics to support strategic planning, accreditation, learning outcomes, program review, general education, student success, sustainability, and administrative outcomes.
- Nuventive Connect-LMS: LMS integration offering that pulls assessment data from supported learning management systems into Nuventive for aggregated, disaggregated, and contextual analysis.
- Nuventive Improve Analytics: Analytics and dashboard offering for the Nuventive Improvement Platform that uses Power BI models, templates, and services to visualize planning and assessment data.
- Nuventive Implementation Services: Deployment and onboarding services covering project management, configuration, training materials, and alignment of plans with institutional KPIs and reporting needs.
- Nuventive Managed Services: Ongoing administrative and configuration support for institutions that want Nuventive to manage roles, labels, lists, navigation settings, rules, and related platform upkeep.
- Nuventive Sustainability Ecosystem: A sustainability-focused offering for participating higher education institutions that combines shared data, collaboration, and improvement tracking on top of the Nuventive Improvement Platform.
Target Customers
Nuventive targets colleges, universities, and multi-campus higher education organizations that want a more structured approach to institutional effectiveness. It is especially relevant for institutions managing interrelated processes such as outcomes assessment, accreditation, strategic planning, program review, student success, and sustainability.
Typical stakeholders include institutional effectiveness and assessment leaders, academic affairs, student affairs, institutional research and planning teams, and IT groups supporting data and reporting workflows. Cabinet-level administrators use Nuventive for visibility into goals and progress, while faculty and staff use it to submit plans, review evidence, analyze results, and document improvement actions.
Cloud Integrations and Marketplace
- Microsoft Azure Marketplace: Nuventive Improvement Platform is available through Microsoft Azure Marketplace for higher education institutions. Nuventive also aligns the platform with the broader Microsoft cloud stack, including Microsoft 365 and Power BI, to unify plans, reporting, and analytics.
Key People
- David Raney: Chief Executive Officer
- Gary Choban: Senior Vice President & Chief Product Officer
- John Voloudakis: Chief Innovation Officer
- Scott Johnson: Vice President of Sales
- Denise Raney: Vice President of Customer Success
- Paul DeSante: Director of Information Experience & BI
Key Facts
- Headquarters: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
- Employees: Approximately 25-30
- Annual Revenue: $1M-$5M
- Parent Company: None
- Subsidiaries: None
- Publicly Listed: No (privately held)
