During an 18 month ERP upgrade Casper College began a journey to learn how to effectively deploy Business Intelligence. As we began to more fully understand the scope of our project as well as the enormity of this new and growing field we began asking how we could more effectively utilize business analytics for our entire data set. We will cover the types of tools, costs and how you can begin your journey to learn about this amazing field. We will also touch on the almost untouched topic of analtyical ethics. This session will help you move from being knowledge free to a tenderfoot in the expanding field of Business Intelligence in education.

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Laramie County Community College
BI/ Analytics Observations & Review:
Getting from Data to Insight
Kent Brooks
IT Director
Casper College
May 22, 2014
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 Turn off cell phones
 #rmug2014
 @ellucian
 @kentbrooks
Housekeeping
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− From Data to Insight
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“We don’t have enough data….the
sample size is too small”
-Moneyball
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The Data Challenge (Part 1)
 We have Web Intelligence but are
lacking the ability to create reports
from our whole data set.
 SAP( for example) = good daily reports
but no ad hoc, no visualization no
dashboards
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The Data Challenge (Part 2)
 We are being asked to be wise
stewards of state resources about a
field that is brand new
 The skills we are being asked to learn
to do this right are in addition to all the
other things we must know
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Overcoming the Data Challenge
 TDWI
 BI Scorecard =
http://tinyurl.com/l6u76yl
 Higher Ed BI Conference = NKU
 HEDW = http://www.hedw.org
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Observations for the BI Tenderfoot
 Getting a common set of definitions is
important
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Observations for the BI Tenderfoot
 We are decent at collecting data but
not at turning data into useful and
timely information
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Observations for the BI Tenderfoot
 Not one tool does everything
 Even if you say you have a Data
Warehouse you can only say you're
doing Business Intelligence if you have
tools to change data into useful
information.
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Observations for the BI Tenderfoot
 We need collect more data more
rapidly and turn it into information
 There is never enough resources
allocated to education
 The perfect is the enemy of the good
 People matter more than technology
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Observations for the BI Tenderfoot
 Premise options give more options and
capabilities for customization than
cloud options
 This is all brand new, you need a data
scientist but they are not
common….yet
 The only KPI that matters is user
adoption
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After all of this…
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Source: http://thedoghousediaries.com/

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Other Observations:
 100% BI utilization should be goal
 Immediate need is still real-time Ad Hoc
Reporting and analysis
 Ethics in Analytics is virtually ignored
 Whatever you do should be Data Source
Agnostic
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CROA for daily reporting combined with other
tools for:
Data Visualization
Charts/ Graphs
Mobile
Analysis
is a very reasonable solution.
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CROA for daily reporting combined with
other tools for:
 Data Visualization
 Charts/ Graphs
 Mobile
 Analysis
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Resources about our experience:
 Casper College BI Learning Center
− http://bit.ly/1qWFX5C
 Other Tools in Our View
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Resources from our experience:
earn More About CROA . (You must be logged in to the
Ellucian Live portal to view the recordings.)
Institutional Reporting at Lake Tahoe Community
College: A Case Study
https://ellucianlive.activeevents.com/2014/connect/sessionDe
tail.ww?SESSION_ID=1861
Creating Snapshots in Colleague Reporting and
Operating Analytics
https://ellucianlive.activeevents.com/2014/connect/sessionDe
tail.ww?SESSION_ID=1862

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Resources from our experience:
earn More About CROA . (You must be logged in to the
Ellucian Live portal to view the recordings.)
Institutional Reporting at Lake Tahoe Community
College: A Case Study
https://ellucianlive.activeevents.com/2014/connect/sessionDe
tail.ww?SESSION_ID=1861
Creating Snapshots in Colleague Reporting and
Operating Analytics
https://ellucianlive.activeevents.com/2014/connect/sessionDe
tail.ww?SESSION_ID=1862

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Integrated Student Success Dashboard
Other Interesting Things:

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Any Questions?
Kent Brooks
kbrooks@caspercollege.edu
Twitter: @caspercollege
www.kentbrooks.com
Questions
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