1. State System Analytics Platform
Office of Educational Intelligence
State System Analytics Platform
OEI Mission
The Office of Educational Intelligence’s (OEI) mission is to Increase student success and regional responsiveness through the effective use of data, analytics, and information. To achieve this mission, OEI has developed the State System Analytics Platform to help stakeholders gain access and insight into critical information to enhance fact based, data-driven decision making.
Enterprise Analytics
Actionable
Insights
State System’s EdHub
Persistence and Graduation
SharePoint
State System Analyst
Career Coach
SIMS Data
Warehouse
Single Sign On
Analytics Technology Stack
Enrollments and Completions
Data Architecture
BI and Visualization
Advanced Analytics
The State System’s Analytics Platform provides robust enterprise wide analytics focused on enhancing decision making through insight and discovery. The platform supports a myriad of reporting capabilities including advanced analytics, business intelligence, and interactive visualizations.
It provides access to over 100 key performance indicators in an intuitive integrated solution accessible via Sharepoint. The platform leverages Single Sign On providing stakeholders with the ability to access a multitude of solutions without have to provide separate login credentials.
The platform is built on the SIMS infrastructure which is adaptable, modular, interoperable, and configurable. This helps ensure that it meets the information needs and requirements of today, but also establishes a scalable architecture which lays the foundation for future growth and additional data needs.
Data Architecture
OEI SharePoint Site:
The OEI SharePoint site is the centralized repository of State System Analytics Platform. Users can access an array of reports, dashboards, datasets, and information about the State System and its’ students.
SIMS Data Warehouse:
The SIMS data warehouse is the foundational support to the State System Analytics Platform. It integrates the disparate university datasets and stores them in a centralized repository for consumption by the various analytic solutions.
Analytics Technology Stack:
In order to support analytics needs at the State System a series of analytics tools and technologies have been implemented. These tools have been selected based on extensive vendor analysis/ evaluation, and are used to support BI, Visualization, and Advanced Analytics. A subset of the tools currently being leveraged include: SAS (VA and Base), QlikView, Tableau, and SSRS
Single Sign On:
The State System Analytics Platform leverages SSO to standardize analytics delivery on to a single integrated platform. In addition SSO removes the need for users to provide multiple user names and passwords when logging into the solution.
BI and Visualization
Persistence and Graduation Dashboard:
This dashboard solution provides meaningful insight into the factors that influence student retention, persistence, and graduation in the State System universities. Through the use of interactive student data filters, users can answer a multitude of business questions and compare the performance of various student groups.
Enrollments and Completions Dashboard:
This solution analyzes State System enrollments and completions data in an interactive dashboard. Along with national IPEDs data for benchmark comparison, users can choose from a number of integrated student data filters to compare and discover trends related to student enrollments and completions.
Career Coach:
The State System’s Career coach is a resource for students to connect education to employment opportunities. Students can search for careers and related degrees, build their resumes, and even take a career assessment to find recommendations based on their personality types, skills, and experience.
Advanced Analytics
State System’s EdHub:
The State System’s EdHub an analytics platform that allows State System’s external and internal stakeholders to intuitively analyze and understand critical university metrics across the system. It organizes over 60 reports, dashboards, and data files into five intuitive domains that allow users to research and analyze State System metrics and data. Users can also view interactive reports to quickly learn about the State System and its’ data.
State System Analyst:
Analyst is an advanced research toolset compromised of a number of different reports, including the Alumni Insights report and the State System Academic Portfolio. The Alumni Insights dashboard provides labor profile information on State System Alumni. Powered by the EMSI API, the report display’s top Alumni skills, occupations, job titles, residencies, education, employers and more. The Academic Portfolio connects student demand to workforce demand for all instructional programs offered by State System Universities. It answers questions about labor statistics and how they impact the various State System academic programs.
Actionable Insights
The State System Analytics Platform helps to provide stakeholders with the right information, to make the right decisions, at the right time. In addition, the platform provides stakeholders with actionable insight and analysis to help enhance decision making across the State System.

2. Quick Access Guide State System Business Analytics Platform
Office of Educational Intelligence
Quick Access Guide
The State System Analytics Platform solutions can be accessed via the OEI SharePoint Site at the following location:
The table below contains a sample of the analytic solutions available on the SharePoint site and provides a brief summary of the top business metrics in the solution as well as information on how to directly access the solution.
State System Business Analytics Platform
Solutions
Top Business Metrics
Solution Access Information
State System Enrollments and Completions Dashboard
Student Enrollments
Student Completions
Avg. Final GPA
Avg. Cumulative Credits
Student data filters
National IPEDS data
The solution can be accessed on the OEI SharePoint site at:
Once the page loads, click the “Enrollments and Completions” button to view the dashboard
Additional information can be found on SharePoint at:
State System Persistence and Graduation Dashboard
Retention Rates
Persistence Rates (2nd, 3rd, 4th )
Graduation Rates (4th, 5th 6th )
System vs. University rates
Once the page loads, click the “Persistence and Graduation” button to view the dashboard
State System’s EdHub
Workforce Statistics
Student Performance
Alumni Statistics
High School Graduations
The solution can be accessed on the OEI SharePoint site at:
Coming Soon: The State System’s EdHub will soon be available to external stakeholders as well as internal stakeholders.
State System Analyst: Academic Portfolio
Occupational Data
Wage Information
 The solution can be accessed on the State System Analyst at:
Coming Soon: The Academic Portfolio will soon be available all internal stakeholders through the SharePoint site. No login will be required to access the report.
State System Analyst:
Alumni Insights
University Alumni Profiles
Alumni Skills
Alumni Occupations
Alumni Education
The solution can be accessed on the State System Analyst at:
Career Coach
Job search information
Resume building
Pennsylvania Workforce Needs Assessment
Educational Program Supply/Demand
Occupational Supply/Demand
Workforce undersupply and oversupply gaps
Coming Soon: The Pennsylvania Workforce Needs Assessment will be available through the OEI SharePoint. There will be no additional login requirements to view the report.