Education

Higher Education

Cognos, an IBM company, helps universities and colleges transform mountains of data into clear, actionable information for higher performance in these areas:

Superior advancement and alumni management

• Track state and other public grants, gifts, pledges, and endowments from alumni, corporations, and others.
• Identify your most effective fund raising programs.
• Analyze donor and alumni information based on geography, education level, occupation, and timing.

Improved financial performance

• Collect, analyze, and report on revenue and expense data from different departments and systems.
• Track compliance with institutional, state, and national regulations.
• Measure the effectiveness of research funding against results achieved.

Enhanced student management

• Identify and accelerate recruitment of the right students to achieve your goals.
• Measure in-class performance and curriculum management against plans.
• Compare student aid requests with grants and outcomes.
• Track and manage student performance across courses and disciplines.
• Deliver secure information services to staff, faculty, and students via the Web.

Increased overall organizational performance

• Align institutional strategy with execution.
• Monitor ongoing performance against stated goals, and track critical performance metrics.
• Understand and manage organizational HR requirements, now and in the future.
• Consolidate student and administrative information across applications and databases into a single source.

For more information, read the article:

• New Cognos Performance Solution Helps Colleges and Universities Improve Faculty Planning: Cognos continues to extend its higher education market leadership, announcing the launch of a new performance solution designed to help colleges and universities drive more efficient faculty salary and position planning.
• Cognos’ BI Solutions Create Smarter Decision-Making at the University of Minnesota: Learn how Cognos helped the University of Minnesota identify $5 million in unbilled tuition and increase revenues since 2000 to over $187 million annually.

Additional Resources:

Managing the Business of Education

White Paper

Read about how universities are using Cognos to gain new insights into the most effective fundraising programs; where to find the best students and professors; and understand the exact costs of curriculum.

Business Intelligence for Higher Education

Online Demo

This demo will illustrate how Cognos can provide a complete solution for addressing reporting and analysis needs for colleges and universities that range from finance, planning and budgeting, recruitment, tuition, admissions, student retention, and alumni development.

IBM Cognos Enrollment & Tuition Planning Performance Blueprint for Higher Education

Online Demo

View this demo to learn how to better understand and plan for changes in demand, to adopt new strategies to deal with the evolving market for education, and ultimately to assure the ongoing legacy of your institution.

IBM Cognos Go! Mobile demo for your BlackBerry

Online Demo

IBM Cognos 8 Planning for Higher Education: Plan to Perform

White Paper

Find out how to use business modeling, budgeting, planning, and forecasting to deal with ineffective processes and technologies, and accurately assess market conditions.

The University of Wollongong

Podcast

Find out how this Australian university is using Cognos to get an accurate and comprehensive view of its operations and share consistent, timely information among departments and faculty.

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