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Today’s conversations continued to tell the story of the enhanced importance of analytics, a greater emphasis on affordability, the attractiveness of multi-vendor approaches, and unlocking data resources that are hiding in plain sight. Mark Somerville, Vice President, Global Product Management, Business Intelligence, SunGard SunGard has made a significant commitment to analytics in higher education. This [...]

Introduction Analytics is in demand by decision makers and in the higher education news, on the exhibit floor and in presentations at EDUCAUSE 2010 and in numerous blogs, books, and was also a key issue at the recent National Productivity Conference. This White Paper has been built around a series of interviews with industry and [...]

Wednesday’s program at EDUCAUSE was initiated by Gary Hamel’s rousing address on “Reinventing Management for a Networked World.” Hamel, well known management guru and professor at the London Business School, laid out a set of principles for Management 2.0 and discussed a set of seven steps enterprises could take to be as nimble as the [...]

The Public Forum on Action Analytics and the Action Analytics Community of Practice are now available to higher education institutions and technology vendors worldwide via edu1world.org. Funded by a grant from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to the Minnesota State Colleges and Universities to support the Action Analytics Education Partnership (AAEP), these online communities [...]

The World of Educational Dashboards More sophisticated educational dashboards may contain complimentary operational management and governance functionality as well, aiding in compliance with the No Child Left Behind Act as well as other federal, local, and state mandates—from facilities management to attendance tracking. As education becomes more progressive, the lines between student management and school [...]

Academic Analytics is the term for business intelligence used in an academic setting. There is an increasing distinction made between academic analytics and traditional BI because of the unique type of information that university administrators require for decision making. – Wikipedia Why Academic Analytics By leveraging technology, skills, and process improvements to bring data and [...]

How do you deliver dashboards that end users will adopt and use? Posted by admin on June 11, 2010 That was the gist of the insightful and humorous presentation titled “Dashboards to Die For” delivered by John Rome, at the Association for Institutional Research Conference (http://www.airweb.org) this year in Chicago. You’d be hard-pressed to find [...]