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News Facts
-- Valdosta State University, a regional university in South Georgia
serving approximately 12,491 undergraduate students, has seen a 10 to
15 percent improvement in student midterm and final grades since
implementing Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition at the
start of the Fall 2012 semester.
-- To address its 67 percent one-year student retention rate, which costs
the university $6.5 million in lost revenue each year, Valdosta State
University chose Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition to
provide 600 faculty and 100 staff members with rich insight into
student academic performance. With instant, on-demand access to
student class loads and grades, faculty can make timely decisions on
how to facilitate student success, whether the right path is notifying
the student's advisor, conducting one-on-one meetings with the student
or implementing tutoring services.
-- With the new business intelligence environment, Valdosta State
University has improved administrative productivity by more than 500
percent. Administrative staff can now complete 90 percent of all data
requests from faculty, department heads, deans and Office of Financial
Aid grants staff within 24 hours -- compared to the previous average
response time of one to three weeks -- using the solution's
interactive dashboards, which enable faculty and staff to build
reports from existing templates.
-- With Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition, faculty can
receive important, recurring reports via email, eliminating the need
for administrators to log in and run reports at specific times during
the semester. Moreover, faculty can now easily communicate with each
other across campus -- expediting and simplifying the process for
flagging student issues and delivering help to students. The solution
also provides faculty with access to an interactive class roster
containing student photos, thus personalizing communication between
faculty and students and improving interactions.
-- The university's new business intelligence environment has also
streamlined IT responsibilities and cut database administration time
in half, enabling database administrators and programmers to focus on
core tasks such as implementing new Web applications, exploring new
technologies and building new reports.
-- Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition adds to the
university's Oracle footprint, which includes Oracle Database, Oracle
Data Integrator and Oracle's PeopleSoft Financial Management.
-- Valdosta State University began implementing the multi-phase project
in April 2012, and released phase one to faculty and staff campus wide
in August 2012, on time and on budget. The university continues to
expand its data warehouse and business intelligence tools across all
campus areas -- including alumni relations, student life, housing and
student affairs -- and in early 2013 will release a portal to its
students.
Supporting Quotes
-- "Since implementing Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition in
August 2012, we have seen an obvious increase in support and
productivity among our faculty and staff, creating an atmosphere of
innovation at Valdosta State University. The number of campus
departments requesting access to the Oracle portal for applications,
forms and automated processes has risen significantly, and with the
platform's customization capabilities it is easy to build one
application or report and fit it to the specific needs of each
department. This interoperability, combined with Oracle's rapid
application and development model, enabled us to achieve long-term
goals in a short period of time," said Brian Haugabrook, director of
data warehouse, Council of Student Affairs (COSA) chair, Valdosta
State University.
-- "Valdosta State University demonstrates that the right business
intelligence environment can yield astonishing benefits to an
institution looking to improve student success and retention. With
Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition's out-of-box reports,
Valdosta State University's faculty and staff have the information and
tools they need to continuously monitor student performance and make
quick decisions on how to support each student and improve the
educational experience," said Cole Clark, global vice president,
education and research industries, Oracle.
Supporting Resources
-- Oracle in Higher Education -- Oracle Business Intelligence Enterprise Edition -- Oracle Database -- Oracle Data Integrator -- Oracle's PeopleSoft Financial Management -- Oracle Higher Education on Facebook -- Oracle Higher Education on Diigo
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