There are some exciting things planned for release over the next few months. Most visibly will be our redesigned web site. It is still on schedule for release at the end of March.
The other project to mention is the business intelligence (BI) system. The vendor chosen to produce our BI was Birst, a cloud based system.
According to Gartner, Business intelligence (BI) is an umbrella term that includes the applications, infrastructure and tools, and best practices that enable access to and analysis of information to improve and optimize decisions and performance.
(I am sure there are other less flattering descriptions of business intelligence!)
The development team at Harding are on working on our first dashboards - Retention, Graduation Rates and an Enrollment dashboards. They will show trends and provide the ability to drill down at various levels. The information in the dashboards is drawn a data warehouse that holds accurate current and historical data.
BI systems provide great information for planning and decision making. We will be adding more dashboards as the development continues.
The BI system at Harding has been given the name, Tardis. What is Tardis? The Tardis is the time machine that Dr Who uses. It stands for, Time And Relative Dimension In Space! On the outside it is a British Police Box, but inside it is much larger with many rooms and so forth. For those who want to know more (and who doesn't), check this out - The Tardis.
BI systems are a bit like that as well - simple on the outside, more complex as you get into them. I know - it is a bit 'nerdy' but we needed to call it something.
There are some dashboards below that Google provides for us. These dashboards give us a good idea of how we used some of our Google Apps suite last Fall. As we look at these dashboards over time, it can help us plan for future use, services and capacity.
God bless you all as we serve Him this semester.
The development team at Harding are on working on our first dashboards - Retention, Graduation Rates and an Enrollment dashboards. They will show trends and provide the ability to drill down at various levels. The information in the dashboards is drawn a data warehouse that holds accurate current and historical data.
BI systems provide great information for planning and decision making. We will be adding more dashboards as the development continues.
The BI system at Harding has been given the name, Tardis. What is Tardis? The Tardis is the time machine that Dr Who uses. It stands for, Time And Relative Dimension In Space! On the outside it is a British Police Box, but inside it is much larger with many rooms and so forth. For those who want to know more (and who doesn't), check this out - The Tardis.
BI systems are a bit like that as well - simple on the outside, more complex as you get into them. I know - it is a bit 'nerdy' but we needed to call it something.
There are some dashboards below that Google provides for us. These dashboards give us a good idea of how we used some of our Google Apps suite last Fall. As we look at these dashboards over time, it can help us plan for future use, services and capacity.
God bless you all as we serve Him this semester.
