Kent Brooks is the IT Director at Casper College in Casper Wyoming, blogs at KentBrooks.com, is a contributor to MoodleNews, and Wes Fryers Internationally acclaimed "Speed of Creativity" blog. He served as Chief Technology Officer/ Dean /Computer Coordinator at Higher Education Institutions in Oklahoma and New Mexico for nearly 20 years. While in New Mexico he was actively involved in the Los Alamos National Laboratory EDUNET program which sought to bring telecommunications technologies to the four corners area of the US. Kent has been heavily involved in numerous teacher-training projects and efforts to bring networking and telecommunications technologies to rural areas. His grant writing efforts have brought over $50 million dollars to equip rural schools, tribal complexes and museums across the US with distance learning technologies. Kent's work interests include the acquisition of technology and training resources for rural under served communities. More specifically his work interest and focus is on the "open" or "free" software movement and its impact on delivery of technological services in education.

1. BI/ Analytics
Observations
Evaluation
Overview
& Tool
Demo
Dec 16, 3:00pm
Dec 17, 1:00pm

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4. The Data
Challenge
We have Web Intelligence but are lacking the
ability to create reports from our whole data set.
SAP( for example) does a good job of daily
reports but does not give you the visualization
tools needed for decision makers
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

5. The Topics
• What is BI?
• BI Our path/ experience
• BI tools demo for today
Entrinsik Informer
Domo
Tableau

6. What is BI?
BI software tools assist you with …
•Query and analysis
• Analysis tools
• Ad hoc reporting
•Reports
• Dashboards / Scorecards
• Plan vs. Actual
• Trend Line Analysis
• Performance Management
•Plan, forecast, and budget
Special Thanks to: John (JP) Palmer, Senior Consultant, Vivantech, Inc.
Bruce Alexander, Sr Consultant to the CIO, Michigan State University
Maury Hope, Associate CIO, Iowa State University
For the content in this slide

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8. Overview/ Our Path - Part 1
1. Initial Ellucian recommendations
included TDWI
2. Purchase BI Scorecard $2995
http://www.biscorecard.com/Register.
asp
a. Share/Present with CIO Council

9. Overview/ Our Path - Part 2
3. Engaging with Higher Ed BI groups:
a. NKU BI conference
b. HEDW.org Attend 2014 event?
Link to last years event:
http://www.hedw.org/index.php/ge
neral-information-2013

10. Overview/ Our Path - Part 3
3. Developing our evaluation matrix
4. Get a Demo of our top 5ish or
6ish
a. Western will do a presentation of
their experience with iStrategy
5. Make Decision & Recommendation

11. Other Observations:
-Cube vs. No Cube
-iStrategy prebuilt ; Could reduce
development time
-Cognos uses them, not sure of
details...but I will soon

12. Summary
-The perfect is the enemy of the good.
-People matter more than tech
-This is all brand new, you need a data
scientist but there is no such thing….yet

13. Recommended Resources
BI Summit Session Recordings. To access the sessions, please contact
Kent for Login Info. The keynote sessions will display without logging in.
http://webcast.themetscenter.com/NKUMETS/Catalog/Full/ac1ef48d4c484f0ea98547820ce29ffc21/
4142caadc4e54ed9a6dd6b487769e28514/ac1ef48d4c484f0ea98547820ce29ffc21
Reading:

14. Next Steps
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HEDW in April 2014
More TDWI when feasible
Other Products
License Qty + Product mix?
To decide or to not decide by March
2014...that is the question