Florida Atlantic University’s BI Dashboard
for Multiple Departments
Tim Beckett, Higher Education Solutions Manager
Michael Heiser, Sr. Systems Engineer
June, 2008
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Session Rules of Etiquette
 Please turn off your cell phone/beeper
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 Please avoid side conversation during the presentation
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Information Builders Corporate Overview
Agenda
 Challenges of Banner Reporting
 The WebFOCUS Banner Reporting Foundations
 Demonstration
Q & A
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BI Center of Excellence:
A partnership between IBI and FAU
Benefits:
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Establishing a COE that defines BI
standards to support FAU’s goals for
information management
Beta test site for new WebFOCUS
releases
Input on new product development for
higher education solutions
Common user interface
Best practices model that will pay
dividends in future BI projects by FAU
departmental and technical staff
Integrated business intelligence
throughout all departments
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Information Builders Corporate Overview
Agenda
 Challenges of Banner Reporting
 The WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations
 Demonstration
 Summary
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Key reporting challenges for Banner customers
 Banner has the data, but how do we leverage it?
 How do we get answers for all our ad hoc questions?
 May we create our own web-based reports? How do we
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reduce the burden on IT?
May we access existing data stores outside of Banner, and
multiple data sources concurrently?
Are charts and graphs available?
How will we leverage our existing security?
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Information Builders Corporate Overview
Agenda
 Company Background and Customer Experience
 Challenges of Banner Reporting
 WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations
 Demonstration
 Summary
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Approaches to Data Access
Management
Student
ID Card
system
Employees
Object
Access
CRM
Systems
EDW
Direct Drill-Through
for Detail
ODS
Partners
Legacy Data
Banner
Banner
Tables
Customers
Zero Latency, Real Time Access
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Banner Reporting Foundations
 The WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations for ODS
& Banner give you a jumpstart for these modules:
 Student
 Finance
 Human Resources
 A complete end user reporting solution
 A dynamic dashboard for all departments
 Customizable tabs with reporting templates
 Security that leverages the Banner ID
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Student
The Reporting Foundation for Banner Student includes
these reporting templates such as:
 Admissions statistics
 Enrollment reports
 Registration details
 Publication-quality enrollment summary
 Non-zero balance report for accounts receivable
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Finance
The Reporting Foundation for Banner Finance includes
these five reporting templates:
 Budget reports
 General ledger
 Operating ledger
 Balance Sheet
 Grants
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Human Resources
The Reporting Foundation for Banner HR includes
these five reporting templates:
 Employee Position Statistics
 Benefit Deductions
 Terminations
 Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO) report
 Appraisals
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Information Builders Corporate Overview
Agenda
 Company Background and Customer Experience
 Challenges of Banner Reporting
 The WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations
 Demonstration
 Summary
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WebFOCUS7
Summary
 Frank N. Magid Associates, Inc. an independent market research firm, conducted a
survey of companies with experience with 4 leading Enterprise Business
Intelligence Tools.
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WebFOCUS…
Is Considered To Be More Critical By Its Users
Has 2 1/2 Times the number of users (on average)
Requires less development and support resources to implement
Requires little or no training for Users (as compared to other products)
Is more likely to access existing data
Is used to build more new applications after initial implementation than with
competing vendors products
Requires Fewer machines and CPUs to run
Has a lower total cost of ownership (TCO) Including
 Cost of Software
 Cost of Development/Consulting
 Cost of Hardware
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Summary
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The WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations for ODS &
Banner give you a jumpstart for these modules:
 Student
 Finance
 Human Resources
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Dynamic dashboard reporting, featuring templates that
leverage Banner security
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The equation for success:
Dynamic sorts
Drilldown reporting
Easy navigation
Quick installation
+ Zero training
--------------------------------------------------------------TIME SAVINGS FOR FUNCTIONAL USERS!
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Thank you!
Contact Information:
Tim Beckett, Higher Education
Solutions Manager
Tim_Beckett@ibi.com
832-251-5702
Michael Heiser, Sr. System Engineer
Michael_Heiser@ibi.com
832-251-5703
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