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Balanced Business Intelligence: A Capability Approach to BI Program Alignment
This White Paper explores a method for assessing and planning for a well balanced business intelligence program that focuses on your organization’s distinctive culture. From dynamic to disciplined, it takes into consideration the unique circumstances of the organization’s life cycle, delivery and ability of business intelligence from a capability perspective rather than a maturity perspective. The balance of both efficiency and effectiveness is explored to enable a well rounded intelligence program in any organization.

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Lean Principles and IT Demand Management
IT spending level is typically based on historical or competitive benchmark levels. Given the current global economic climate many IT organizations face frozen budgets and cost-cutting efforts and this puts a squeeze on many innovative initiatives in the backlog. The only way for folks to get more done for less will be to plan and prioritize the IT portfolio based on strategic fit, business value, risk, and complexity.

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Ensuring & Maintaining Data Quality: Data Quality for Data in Motion & Data at Rest
Businesses that apply mature Information Technology processes understand “Data Quality as the foundation of Business Intelligence”, and therefore are aware of data quality problems. At the same time, there is a common misconception that data quality is expensive and is not required through early maturity stages. However, this has the opposite effect of accumulating bad data in the operational data stores and data warehouses, which then requires a huge effort to fix. This whitepaper, useful for data stewards, enterprise architects, project managers, and IT executives, examines how the data quality problems arise even in the most controlled environments and the measures to be taken to ensure and maintain data quality in operational and data warehousing systems.

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Master Data Management: Managing Data as an Asset
With an increase in the pace of business, organizations have already built up Business Intelligence systems to aid efficient decision-making. Globalization and mergers and acquisitions have served as catalysts for organizations to realize the criticality of data and data integration. With this background, many organizations have begun to treat data as one of their key assets. This white paper explains how core business entities known as master data can be considered organizational assets and how to manage these entities holistically.

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The What’s and How’s of ETL Architecture
This paper is basically a high level description of a highly technical subject - Extract, Transform, Load (ETL) Architecture. It is written for IT management and professionals to address and explain an area which often has been overlooked.

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Organizational Alignment: Empowering The Business
The term Organizational Alignment brings to mind many different interpretations when spoken of in the context of an Information Technology (IT) organization. When applied to an organization as a whole, it addresses consistency of purpose and activity throughout the organization as a means to achieve organizational objectives. A similar context is true with respect to an IT organization except that an IT organization typically supports multiple parts of the organization, each of which each have their own strategies woven into a cohesive organizational strategy. When Organizational Alignment principles are applied within IT disciplines, resources create and deliver sustainable business value enabling business units to achieve their objectives.

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Business Intelligence Best Practices: Transforming Data into Information
The introduction of information technology systems decades ago helped organizations worldwide benefit from more efficient operations and greater productivity. Over the years, companies have acquired volumes of data in these applications, but much of this data is trapped in multiple, disparate systems which cannot easily communicate. As a result, firms must expend considerable effort to tap into the full potential of these data assets to strategically maneuver the business in a rapidly changing and competitive marketplace. The latest evolution in IT is “business intelligence,” which promises to help businesses better tap into and leverage their data assets. But what, exactly, is BI? How can it help? How is it implemented? And what can it do for your company? Essentially a primer on BI, this paper describes BI, how it can help you, and best practices to consider when launching or refining a business intelligence initiative.

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Enterprise Information Management in the Real World: Strategies for Success
Enterprise Information Management—or EIM—encompasses several important contemporary business concepts: Business Intelligence, Data Governance, Data Warehousing …

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Make Your Data Shine: Protect Your Company’s Image by Maintaining Good Quality Data
This article by Joyce Norris-Montanari, appeared in Teradata Magazine in September 2008

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21 Feb 2011
CIBER Promotes Business of Healthcare Organizations;
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06 Oct 2009
CIBER Adds to SAP Partner Credentials By Providng SAP® BusinessObjects™ Solutions
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CIBER has completed the redesign and redevelopment of the first of three hospital patient flow and capacity management applications for Pittsburgh-based TeleTracking Technologies.

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“Ohio University is partnering with CIBER to significantly change how technology aids in the delivery of services to students and faculty. CIBER’s expertise with complex Higher Education projects made them well equipped to assist us with this extensive transformation.”

Brice Bible — Chief Information Officer , Ohio University

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Business Intelligence for Higher Education

Running an institution of higher education is different than managing any other enterprise.

So CIBER offers a unique approach to Business Intelligence (BI) specially tailored to the needs of higher education that gives you the analytical tools to make the right strategic decisions for your institution. To cite just a few examples, you’ll be able to:

Minimize the repeated efforts often involved in preparing IPEDS reports with increased automation.
Track students in ways you’ve only imagined in the past – the original prospect referral source, how many submitted admission applications, how many enrolled (Census Data and Cohort Tracking), how many graduated (retention), and how many are contributing alumni. Or drill even deeper to understand the demographics of the students you’re harvesting (recruiting) and where they come from.
Analyze every facet of your fundraising activities, such as, institution campaigns, fundraising, gift giving, or memberships to understand exactly what’s succeeding and what isn’t.
Give your department heads a full view of their budgets so they’ll know instantly whether they’re on budget and the impact of spending options on compliance with the many financial requirements they must meet. Also provide the ability to do year to year comparison across all modules, such as, admissions, student records, academic advisement, financial aid, student financials, etc.

Are You Ready?

If that sounds appealing, then you’re ready for CIBER’s solution-based approach to Business Intelligence (BI) for higher education – practical and proven solutions that build on Oracle’s Business Intelligence foundation.

View the Entirety, Not Silos

Sound management decisions require reliable, up-to-date information – based on data aggregated and organized so you can view it at a strategic level to see trends and relationships between the activities of every part of your institution. Unfortunately, the information needed to make sound decisions often resides in separate “silos” that aren’t easily analyzed together for a complete picture of what’s happening.

CIBER’s proven approach to Business Intelligence eliminates the silos to give you a full view of your institution so you can analyze all the information you need to make good strategic decisions.

Data Working Side-by-Side

Any good BI software will give you the ability to analyze multiple categories of data from a single database. One of the unique strengths of CIBER’s BI service solution is the ability to analyze data from multiple locations and multiple databases side-by-side. That means, for example, that you can:

Compare financial aid recipients to student financials to finance.
Predict course/class demand based on new student orientation and/or pre-registrations.
Estimate projected increase costs in tuition.
View side-by-side, year-to-year comparisons based on institution requirements.
Simulate financial expenditures by financial aid item types (grants, loans, work) and student attributes (income level, EFC, number in household and number in college, etc.).
Track and compare business processing times, for institution populations such as, prospects, applicants, students and advisees.
Create specific dashboard alerts based on outcomes of processes, admissions, enrollment, packaging and awarding financial aid, advising, or tuition and fees.
Identify at-risk students by midterm grades and/or student attributes, such as first generation.

CIBER’s BI approach also gives you unparalleled ability to run what-if scenarios to see the impact of the choices available to you before you have to make your final decision.

BI Success Goes Beyond the Install

Successful implementation of BI software is a challenging undertaking that represents a major investment of time and money. In fact, some organizations get so caught up in the requirements-gathering process that they never get to a fully successful implementation of their BI system.

So, CIBER will approach the implementation of your BI with a practical, proven approach designed to get a basic BI system up and running quickly. Then we’ll help you build on these basics as your understanding of your needs evolves.

We’ll help you develop institution-wide standardization of the performance indicators for your operations so everyone within your institution is on the same page when it comes to defining key performance indicators.

One major benefit of our approach is that you’ll no longer have different departments showing up at meetings with different numbers for the same performance indicator.

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