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	Oklahoma Boosts Academic Success Rates With WebFOCUS Information Builders

Oklahoma Boosts Academic Success Rates With WebFOCUS

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Technology Category	Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization
Applicable Industries	Education
Applicable Functions	Business Operation
Challenge	The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education needed a better way to present metrics about student activities in conjunction with a national initiative called Complete College America (CCA). The agency had collected a wealth of data from public and private colleges in the State of Oklahoma. It previously analyzed the data using SQL procedures and Excel spreadsheets, but the output was restricted to rigid printouts and standard reports. To meet federal, state, and institutional demands for measuring progress, they needed a better way to share this insight with a broad base of constituents, from state legislators to college chancellors. Read More
About Customer	The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education prescribes academic standards for 25 colleges and universities throughout the state. It analyzes a tremendous amount of student data to help these institutions develop relevant courses of study, grant degrees, manage scholarships, apply allocations, and set tuition and fees within the limits set by the Oklahoma legislature. The State Regents works with the National Governors Association to support an educational initiative called Complete College America (CCA) that was launched to increase the number of Americans with career certificates and college degrees, as well as to close attainment gaps for traditionally underrepresented populations. Read More
Solution	The agency used Information Builders’ WebFOCUS business intelligence (BI) dashboards and reports to make this information available via a public-facing web portal called Oklahoma Education Information System. With help from Information Builders Professional Services, these employees used WebFOCUS to create a web-based portal that displays the state’s higher educational data as well as Complete College America initiative data through interactive dashboards. The project currently encompasses 20 dashboards plus 15 static reports and is growing rapidly. State Regents is also using WebFOCUS InfoAssist to help users to create their own reports. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Analytics & Modeling - Real Time Analytics

Application Infrastructure & Middleware - Data Visualization

Applicable Industries

Education

Applicable Functions

Business Operation

Challenge

The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education needed a better way to present metrics about student activities in conjunction with a national initiative called Complete College America (CCA). The agency had collected a wealth of data from public and private colleges in the State of Oklahoma. It previously analyzed the data using SQL procedures and Excel spreadsheets, but the output was restricted to rigid printouts and standard reports. To meet federal, state, and institutional demands for measuring progress, they needed a better way to share this insight with a broad base of constituents, from state legislators to college chancellors.

About Customer

The Oklahoma State System of Higher Education prescribes academic standards for 25 colleges and universities throughout the state. It analyzes a tremendous amount of student data to help these institutions develop relevant courses of study, grant degrees, manage scholarships, apply allocations, and set tuition and fees within the limits set by the Oklahoma legislature. The State Regents works with the National Governors Association to support an educational initiative called Complete College America (CCA) that was launched to increase the number of Americans with career certificates and college degrees, as well as to close attainment gaps for traditionally underrepresented populations.

Solution

The agency used Information Builders’ WebFOCUS business intelligence (BI) dashboards and reports to make this information available via a public-facing web portal called Oklahoma Education Information System. With help from Information Builders Professional Services, these employees used WebFOCUS to create a web-based portal that displays the state’s higher educational data as well as Complete College America initiative data through interactive dashboards. The project currently encompasses 20 dashboards plus 15 static reports and is growing rapidly. State Regents is also using WebFOCUS InfoAssist to help users to create their own reports.

Impact #1	WebFOCUS dashboards are used to allocate funds to institutions based on goal achievement.
Impact #2	The information is freely available to the general public and to decision-makers who the agency supports, including chancellors, vice chancellors, and other key personnel within the educational community.
Impact #3	Members of the state legislature also depend on the information to assess progress towards state goals, create proposals and appropriations, steer educational policy, and help with a variety of higher-education funding efforts in the state.

Impact #1

WebFOCUS dashboards are used to allocate funds to institutions based on goal achievement.

Impact #2

The information is freely available to the general public and to decision-makers who the agency supports, including chancellors, vice chancellors, and other key personnel within the educational community.

Impact #3

Members of the state legislature also depend on the information to assess progress towards state goals, create proposals and appropriations, steer educational policy, and help with a variety of higher-education funding efforts in the state.

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Oklahoma Boosts Academic Success Rates With WebFOCUS

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