Helsinki transforms student success and well-being with advanced education analytics
The City of Helsinki Education Division, serving over 100,000 students and 14,000 teachers, partnered with Microsoft to create an advanced education analytics platform. Leveraging Microsoft Azure AI and Open Education Analytics (OEA), Helsinki developed its digitalization strategy to turn 'invisible' educational factors into actionable insights using big data and AI. The objective was to enable personalized learning, inform pedagogical decisions, and foster a culture of responsible and ethical AI in education. Through collaboration and global community support, Helsinki built an evolving analytics system designed to continuously improve operational decisions and student well-being, while ensuring data privacy and fairness remain paramount.
- Organization
- City of Helsinki
- Industry
- Education
- Location
- Finland
- Published
- May 2025
Reported outcomes
Strategic outcomes
Why do we believe this deployment?Customer identity, provider attribution, maturity, and source checks
- Customer
- City of Helsinki
- Provider
- Microsoft
- Maturity
- Scaled Production
- Linked source
- microsoft.com
Developed robust, ethically governed learning analytics at scale
Primary read
Use case focus
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- 1student learning analytics
- 2personalized education insight
- 3AI-powered decision support
- Lack of visibility into critical educational factors affecting student success and well-being.
- Complexity of serving 100,000 students and 14,000 staff across a diverse education system.
- Need to shift from replicating existing processes to innovating with new AI-driven pedagogies.
- Concerns about student data privacy and ethics in applying AI to sensitive data.
- Difficulty benchmarking and collaborating with peers on digital transformation strategies.
- Implemented Microsoft Azure AI and Open Education Analytics for large-scale learning analytics.
- Developed Helsinki’s digitalization strategy with Microsoft’s Education Transformation Framework.
- Built data infrastructure to collect and analyze student and school data for improved decision-making.
- Fostered a data-driven culture among educators and policy-makers with support from a global Microsoft community.
- Integrated responsible AI principles emphasizing privacy, fairness, and ethical data use.
- Enabled schools to make data-driven decisions that improve student learning and well-being.
- Increased insight into previously invisible factors shaping education outcomes.
- Developed robust, ethically governed learning analytics at scale.
- Created a framework for continuous evolution in alignment with societal changes and emerging needs.
Architecture
Helsinki uses Microsoft Azure as the foundation for its analytics platform, integrating Open Education Analytics to collect and analyze educational data at scale. Responsible AI guidance is embedded in the end-to-end data pipeline—from policymaking and data acquisition, through algorithm design and deployment, to front-line usage—ensuring ethical implementation throughout the lifecycle.
Sources & evidence1
- Customer explicitly identified
- Deployment status explicitly supported
- Primary source available
- Technical implementation details available
- Recent evidence check available
- Last evidence check: Jun 1, 2026.
The cited source is no longer reachable and the organization has no newer case. Not a claim the system was discontinued.
- Cited source last checked Jun 1, 2026 — broken (1/1 broken).
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