Published on the 02/10/2009 | Written by Newsdesk
Having a common reporting platform across the institution will means savings in licence costs, software administration and maintenance for UTS…
The University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) has selected IBM Cognos 8.3 as its new student management reporting tool to deliver information faster to students and improve productivity.
UTS is in the process of transforming the way it uses information, allowing the university to gain valuable insight about what is happening across the organisation to help drive smarter decisions.
UTS Student Administration is responsible for managing information for around 33,000 students via the Student Management portal – from student applications and enrolments through to curriculum documents, examination results and alumni data. To support this flow of data, UTS Student Centre staff process an average of 15 student inquiries per minute.
The Student Management portal application (also known as Ci) introduces .NET technology and workflow management allowing for better student self management and staff to student interactions, overall giving staff more time to focus on business improvement. The new business intelligence tool leverages the Student Management source system for reporting, in turn providing greater flexibility of report format and prompting, audit capability to better understand usage, as well as integration with the Student Management portal application.
“Making IBM Cognos the common reporting platform across the university offers savings in licence costs, savings in software administration and maintenance, and capitalises on the existing IBM Cognos skills within the university. It also offers the future potential for a consolidated portal for all strategic University information,” says Miranda Brookes, UTS’s student systems implementation project manager.
