Elmhurst University Saves Time & Money by Utilizing True SelfService Reporting & Analytics with Entrinsik Informer
公司规模
Large Corporate
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- Entrinsik Informer
- Raiser's Edge
- Kronos
- Colleague
技术栈
- UniData
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Productivity Improvements
- Cost Savings
- Customer Satisfaction
技术
- 平台即服务 (PaaS) - 数据管理平台
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据可视化
- 功能应用 - 企业资源规划系统 (ERP)
适用行业
- 教育
适用功能
- 商业运营
- 质量保证
用例
- 远程控制
服务
- 系统集成
- 培训
关于客户
Elmhurst University is a higher education institution located in the United States. The university offers a wide range of undergraduate and graduate programs and is committed to providing a high-quality education to its students. Elmhurst University has a diverse student body and a dedicated faculty and staff who work together to create a supportive and engaging learning environment. The university places a strong emphasis on the use of technology to enhance the educational experience and improve operational efficiency. With a focus on innovation and continuous improvement, Elmhurst University seeks to leverage advanced tools and solutions to meet the evolving needs of its students and staff.
挑战
Before implementing Entrinsik Informer, staff members at Elmhurst University were completely dependent on their IT department for report creation. IT staff were spending hours of valuable time writing queries in Query Builder from their Colleague database and manually customizing delivered reports for specific needs. Reports were distributed to end-users as one-off reports or through mnemonics and often times needed to be modified by someone in IT, taking hours or even weeks to complete. Non-IT staff had no way to access the real-time data that they needed without taking valuable time away from IT. In order to run analytics, IT staff at Elmhurst had to manually export data from the database, send the data to another office to run specified analytics externally, then wait for the results to be returned.\n\nRon Darschewski, Jr., Associate Director of Computer Services and Ellucian Colleague Administrator for Elmhurst University, saw first-hand the problems caused by the lack of an efficient reporting solution. “The major inefficiencies were that end-users required IT to do the work for them; this took hours away from work that IT could be doing, including creating system customization for the betterment of the institution,” said Darschewski.\n\nElmhurst needed a reporting and analytics solution that would allow end-users to access, create, and run customized reports, as well as streamline the analytics process, all without assistance from IT. Users needed a true self-service solution that would give them access to the real-time data they needed, with full reporting capabilities and a user-friendly interface.
解决方案
After first seeing Informer demonstrated at a Datatel User Group (DUG) conference, Elmhurst decided to fully implement the software in 2009. Elmhurst added Dashboards to their Informer platform in 2011 after experiencing a high learning curve and difficulties with another visualization tool. The key features that the University was looking for in a reporting tool were ease of use for the end-user, the ability to report from multiple databases in a UniData environment, and security down to the field and file level of the system. “Informer delivered on all accounts,” said Darschewski. “Reporting became easy; end-users could use the system with ease to get the data they needed.”\n\nInformer is designed for ultimate ease-of-use, not only in reporting functions but also during the implementation process. Installation takes minutes and Informer’s intuitive interface eliminates the need for lengthy training periods. “It was one of the easiest implementations I have ever done. The total time for initial installation took about half a day but we could have done it in about two hours or less. We took our time with it and within a week we had it out to our first end-users.”\n\nInformer has also been integrated with other systems on campus at Elmhurst. The Development office uses Informer with their fundraising software, Raiser’s Edge, to report on donors and giving, as well as selecting individuals for mailings. The University has also integrated Informer into their time-keeping solution, Kronos, in order to review the data imported from Colleague and checking for inaccuracies as data is moved between the two systems.
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