Business Intelligence
What is Business Intelligence?
Business Intelligence (BI) is an application or reporting layer that is provided to facilitate access and analysis of the data. This is where business users access reports, dashboards, and analytical tools.
BI Initiative
The College’s Business Intelligence (BI) initiative was created by Office of Institutional Effectiveness to deliver timely strategic information to key college constituencies and enable effective use of information to support the academic and administrative planning and decision making.
WebFOCUS
WebFOCUS (Information Builder's analytics platform) is a BI tool that receives data from various sources such as Banner, flat files, historic archives etc. and displays data into meaningful information.
The list of functionalities provided by WebFocus include reporting, online analytical processing, data mining, process mining, complex event processing, business performance management, and predictive analytics. WebFOCUS provides a scalable architecture that supports multiple application types.