Information Technology Strategic Planning
Projects
Project Title:
Business Intelligence Platform
Project Advocate:
Mariette Araya
Project Manager:
Mariette Araya
Project Overview:
Select, procure, and deploy a business intelligence software (query, analysis, dashboards, etc.), including pilot reports and functionality.
Key Stakeholders:
Office of Institutional Planning and Analysis
All other units with needs for reporting and analysis of administrative data.
Benefits:
BI platform will facilitate decision support, performance measurement, and operational reporting and analysis by a broad set of campus stakeholders.
Project Deliverables:
BI platform production environment
Initiative(s) Supported:
Related Projects:
Milestones:
Complete RFP document.
Select BI software via RFP process.
Procure BI software.
Train BI software administrators and developers.
Establish BI test environment using ODS as initial data source.
Develop pilot reports and functionality.
Define data access security approach in conjunction with campus stakeholders.
Establish BI production environment.
Costs & Funding (Capital & Operational):
Software licensing.
Implementation consulting.
Administrator and developer training.
No new hardware required – will leverage existing ODS application server hardware.
Project Team:
Nancy Ochsner, IPA
Chris Speckens, IPA
Gary Lowe, IPA
John Souza, IT
Jason Belhumeur, Financial Aid
Issues/Risks:
Overall costs (licensing/consulting/training) exceed resources available.
Data governance issues could delay project or cause it to fail.
Competing priorities of project team members could delay progress.
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