1. Florida Atlantic University’s BI Dashboard for Multiple Departments
Tim Beckett, Higher Education Solutions Manager
Michael Heiser, Sr. Systems Engineer
June, 2008

2. Session Rules of Etiquette
Please turn off your cell phone/beeper
If you must leave the session early, please do so as discretely as possible
Please avoid side conversation during the presentation
Thank you for your cooperation!

3. Information Builders Corporate Overview Agenda
Challenges of Banner Reporting
The WebFOCUS Banner Reporting Foundations
Demonstration
Q & A

4. FAU has been a customer of Information Builders since 1994, and has been running WebFOCUS at their institution since This press release from Campus Technology magazine highlights the fact that they have deployed WebFOCUS for their SunGard Banner system to help them serve their 26,000 undergrads across seven campuses.

5. BI Center of Excellence: A partnership between IBI and FAU
Benefits:
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
Information Builders is working with FAU to create a Center of Excellence for WebFOCUS that will benefit both parties. This program is designed to facilitate a closer working relationship with a select number of clients. The collaboration with FAU is to establish a Business Intelligence Center of Excellence. List out the benefits of this partnership as it relates to building a stronger solution around WebFOCUS for SunGard HE solutions.

6. Information Builders Corporate Overview Agenda
Challenges of Banner Reporting
The WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations
Demonstration
Summary

7. 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 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?
There are lots of question users have, but to get answers do we have to add to their training load?
And is there a way we can create reports without having to learn SQL?
I have other applications that we’ve built along the way? Can these be integrated into our reporting strategy?
I’d love to use graphics, but is it possible?
Do we have to add another sign-on, or will this fit right into the security we have?

8. Information Builders Corporate Overview Agenda
Company Background and Customer Experience
Challenges of Banner Reporting
WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations
Demonstration
Summary

9. Zero Latency, Real Time Access
Approaches to Data Access
Student
ID Card system
Management
Employees
Partners
Customers
Object
Access
EDW
Direct Drill-Through for Detail
ODS
CRM
Systems
Legacy Data
Banner
Banner
Tables
Zero Latency, Real Time Access

10. 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
The Banner Reporting Foundations are a set of templates and a dynamic template input process which will allow you to generate your own templates.
Parameterized reporting
Dynamic template generation process to generate your own templates
Uniform look & feel
Applies to all Banner schools
Templates are based on (a) interviews with many customers and (b) surveying SunGard’s ODS handbook
The Reporting Foundation secures each reporting template with an associated Banner object allowing access to only those users who have been approved to run a report. Your
access to the DART BOARD and what you can see is based upon the secured banner
objects associated to your Banner account.

11. 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

15. Finance
The Reporting Foundation for Banner Finance includes these five reporting templates:
Budget reports
General ledger
Operating ledger
Balance Sheet
Grants

22. 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

24. Information Builders Corporate Overview Agenda
Company Background and Customer Experience
Challenges of Banner Reporting
The WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations
Demonstration
Summary

25. 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.
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
In summary…

26. Summary
The WebFOCUS Reporting Foundations for ODS & Banner give you a jumpstart for these modules:
Student
Finance
Human Resources
Dynamic dashboard reporting, featuring templates that leverage Banner security
The equation for success:
Dynamic sorts
Drilldown reporting
Easy navigation
Quick installation
+ Zero training  
TIME SAVINGS FOR FUNCTIONAL USERS!

27. Thank you!
Contact Information:
Tim Beckett, Higher Education Solutions Manager
Michael Heiser, Sr. System Engineer
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