Dashboards

Dashboards help inform the end-user community of progress on major IT initiatives and also help the IT community keep focused on the status of less intensive projects. Dashboard interface uses can range from an individual campus-wide initiative dashboard to a one showing multiple projects occurring simultaneously. A dashboard not only can enhance a website's visual appeal, but it can also give project managers (and IT and other campus leaders) information at a glance that helps them understand the current status of the IT organization's priorities and its future direction.

Several levels of information are required to run a healthy institution. Executives need to gauge progress on strategic objectives. Midlevel managers need to develop tactics. Many people require daily transactional information. We will address both the organizational and technical requirements needed to partner with each level of decision makers.

At the University of Illinois, a partnership exists between progressive deans and administrators and the Decision Support unit to "prove the benefits" of dashboard technology as part of the enterprise business intelligence architecture. Learn how a program framework encourages effective collaboration across and within academic and technology teams.

Reporting quality and showing the value of an IT organization is a challenging proposition. The old saying you can't manage what you can't measure is still true. Determining how to show "hard numbers" for IT services takes a good deal of thought and planning. This session will discuss one way to achieve the desired measurement objectives.

Since the 1980s, higher education has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on administrative technologies to improve access to information. Institutions implemented new enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, data marts, data warehouses, and technologies to improve reporting. This study analyzes the outcomes at more than 380 higher education institutions. It looks at what the chosen strategies have accomplished, in what ways institutions use the data they collect, whether institutions are investing more resources in tools that enable them to collect and manipulate management information, and the degree to which information and analysis are being used to support institutional decision making. A corporate edition is available here.

These Key Findings describe the major discoveries of the ECAR research study called "Academic Analytics: The Uses of Management Information and Technology in Higher Education". Since the 1980s, higher education has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on administrative technologies to improve access to information. Institutions implemented new enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, data marts, data warehouses, and technologies to improve reporting. This study analyzes the outcomes at more than 380 higher education institutions. It looks at what the chosen strategies have accomplished, in what ways institutions use the data they collect, whether institutions are investing more resources in tools that enable them to collect and manipulate management information, and the degree to which information and analysis are being used to support institutional decision making.

Since the 1980s, higher education has spent hundreds of millions of dollars on administrative technologies to improve access to information. Institutions implemented new enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems, data marts, data warehouses, and technologies to improve reporting. This roadmap analyzes the outcomes at more than 380 higher education institutions. It looks at what the chosen strategies have accomplished, in what ways institutions use the data they collect, whether institutions are investing more resources in tools that enable them to collect and manipulate management information, and the degree to which information and analysis are being used to support institutional decision making.