Florida Atlantic University’s BI Dashboard for Multiple Departments Tim Beckett, Higher Education Solutions Manager Michael Heiser, Sr. Systems Engineer June, 2008
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Information Builders Corporate Overview Agenda Challenges of Banner Reporting The WebFOCUS Banner Reporting Foundations Demonstration Q & A
FAU has been a customer of Information Builders since 1994, and has been running WebFOCUS at their institution since 2002. This press release from Campus Technology magazine highlights the fact that they have deployed WebFOCUS for their SunGard Banner system to help them serve their 26,000 undergrads across seven campuses.
BI Center of Excellence: A partnership between IBI and FAU Benefits: Establishing a COE that defines BI standards to support FAU’s goals for information management Beta test site for new WebFOCUS releases Input on new product development for higher education solutions Common user interface Best practices model that will pay dividends in future BI projects by FAU departmental and technical staff Integrated business intelligence throughout all departments Information Builders is working with FAU to create a Center of Excellence for WebFOCUS that will benefit both parties. This program is designed to facilitate a closer working relationship with a select number of clients. The collaboration with FAU is to establish a Business Intelligence Center of Excellence. List out the benefits of this partnership as it relates to building a stronger solution around WebFOCUS for SunGard HE solutions.
Information Builders Corporate Overview Agenda Challenges of Banner Reporting The WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations Demonstration Summary
Key reporting challenges for Banner customers Banner has the data, but how do we leverage it? How do we get answers for all our ad hoc questions? May we create our own web-based reports? How do we reduce the burden on IT? May we access existing data stores outside of Banner, and multiple data sources concurrently? Are charts and graphs available? How will we leverage our existing security? There are lots of question users have, but to get answers do we have to add to their training load? And is there a way we can create reports without having to learn SQL? I have other applications that we’ve built along the way? Can these be integrated into our reporting strategy? I’d love to use graphics, but is it possible? Do we have to add another sign-on, or will this fit right into the security we have?
Information Builders Corporate Overview Agenda Company Background and Customer Experience Challenges of Banner Reporting WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations Demonstration Summary
Zero Latency, Real Time Access Approaches to Data Access Student ID Card system Management Employees Partners Customers Object Access EDW Direct Drill-Through for Detail ODS CRM Systems Legacy Data Banner Banner Tables Zero Latency, Real Time Access
Banner Reporting Foundations The WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations for ODS & Banner give you a jumpstart for these modules: Student Finance Human Resources A complete end user reporting solution A dynamic dashboard for all departments Customizable tabs with reporting templates Security that leverages the Banner ID The Banner Reporting Foundations are a set of templates and a dynamic template input process which will allow you to generate your own templates. Parameterized reporting Dynamic template generation process to generate your own templates Uniform look & feel Applies to all Banner schools Templates are based on (a) interviews with many customers and (b) surveying SunGard’s ODS handbook The Reporting Foundation secures each reporting template with an associated Banner object allowing access to only those users who have been approved to run a report. Your access to the DART BOARD and what you can see is based upon the secured banner objects associated to your Banner account.
Student The Reporting Foundation for Banner Student includes these reporting templates such as: Admissions statistics Enrollment reports Registration details Publication-quality enrollment summary Non-zero balance report for accounts receivable
Finance The Reporting Foundation for Banner Finance includes these five reporting templates: Budget reports General ledger Operating ledger Balance Sheet Grants
Human Resources The Reporting Foundation for Banner HR includes these five reporting templates: Employee Position Statistics Benefit Deductions Terminations Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) report Appraisals
Information Builders Corporate Overview Agenda Company Background and Customer Experience Challenges of Banner Reporting The WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations Demonstration Summary
WebFOCUS7 Summary Frank N. Magid Associates, Inc. an independent market research firm, conducted a survey of companies with experience with 4 leading Enterprise Business Intelligence Tools. WebFOCUS… Is Considered To Be More Critical By Its Users Has 2 1/2 Times the number of users (on average) Requires less development and support resources to implement Requires little or no training for Users (as compared to other products) Is more likely to access existing data Is used to build more new applications after initial implementation than with competing vendors products Requires Fewer machines and CPUs to run Has a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) Including Cost of Software Cost of Development/Consulting Cost of Hardware In summary…
Summary The WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations for ODS & Banner give you a jumpstart for these modules: Student Finance Human Resources Dynamic dashboard reporting, featuring templates that leverage Banner security The equation for success: Dynamic sorts Drilldown reporting Easy navigation Quick installation + Zero training --------------------------------------------------------------- TIME SAVINGS FOR FUNCTIONAL USERS!
Thank you! Contact Information: Tim Beckett, Higher Education Solutions Manager Tim_Beckett@ibi.com 832-251-5702 Michael Heiser, Sr. System Engineer Michael_Heiser@ibi.com 832-251-5703 In summary…