Organisational Profile

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Organisational Profile

INTO UEA is part of a rapidly growing network of university-based study centres. It provides new and higher quality standards of preparation for undergraduate and postgraduate study in the UK. Combining the resources of University of East Anglia with major independent investment, INTOUEA delivers a world-class educational and cultural experience for international students, with fast, effective and assured progression to university degree courses. Having students from all around the world and being responsible for their development for higher education, it is imperative of the establishment to be run effectively and efficiently. To achieve this, it needs to be able to make learned decisions at every level of the organisation.

Business situation

The organisation needs to find a new way to give quality business and student performance information to users across the organisation. Additionally, it needs a better way to manage and access complicated metrics designed to measure the progress and success of students, teaching staff and the overall performance of the organisation.

What is Business Intelligence?

Decision-making process can be a complex issue. Getting the right information to the right people at the right time is not easy. One way of doing this albeit not a cost-effective way is having a dedicated group of employees whose main responsibility is to gather and analyse various information gathered from the organisation’s ERP and other legacy systems. The whole process cost money and time. Information is only valuable when it is produced in a timely manner. Business intelligence basically helps to gather data and transform them into information that is relevant in a timely manner. With it, decisi...

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...at a reasonable price. Identify services included in the costs of implementation. Do the vendor provide training, and if so, what sort of training? Is it a one day crash course or a longer but more effective training for different levels of the organisation. We need to assess risks associated with the before, during and after the implementation. Would data stored in our current systems be jeopardised during the installation of the new software? This is crucial in maintaining high data integrity in the organisation. Like any other new technologies, adoption processes can be daunting. It requires users of varying levels of information needs having to learn using new BI products. The feasibility study is hoped to help us identify the necessary product with greatest ease of use and user-friendly interface to fit different levels of information users in the organisation.

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