Saint Louis University Streamlines Reporting with WebFOCUS
公司规模
1,000+
地区
- America
国家
- United States
产品
- WebFOCUS
技术栈
- HTML
- Java
- COBOL
实施规模
- Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
- Cost Savings
- Productivity Improvements
技术
- 应用基础设施与中间件 - 数据交换与集成
适用行业
- 教育
适用功能
- 商业运营
用例
- 过程控制与优化
- 实时定位系统 (RTLS)
服务
- 软件设计与工程服务
- 培训
关于客户
Saint Louis University (SLU) is one of the largest employers in the area, with 6,200 people working in 150 buildings across a 300-acre campus. The university offers a broad array of undergraduate, graduate, and professional degree programs on campuses in St. Louis, Missouri, and Madrid, Spain. The university depends on WebFOCUS for everything from student registration and admissions to financials, human resources, payroll, alumni development, and fundraising. Reports for all these departments were previously created on a mainframe computer and delivered to recipients as hardcopy.
挑战
Saint Louis University (SLU) was transitioning from its SCT/Plus ERP applications to SCT Banner. The challenge was to enable end users across 300 departments to generate reports from the new ERP system, with no disruption to their familiar reporting activities. The university also wanted to isolate end-user reporting activities from the back-end ERP infrastructure to keep business processes on track during the changeover. The goal was to create a Web-based reporting system as a front-end for the ERP applications, providing instant end-user access to information from the desktop and create an executive dashboard for new types of forecasting, trending, and analysis exercises.
解决方案
To create an enterprise-caliber reporting environment for the new ERP system, SLU chose Information Builders WebFOCUS. The university was able to deploy WebFOCUS without outside help, building on their existing knowledge of FOCUS. The transition involved teaching COBOL programmers HTML and Java since they were new to the Web environment. WebFOCUS provided a lot of flexibility, giving SLU options they never had before. The programmers learned how to create many types of reports and display results in formats such as Microsoft Excel and Adobe Acrobat. WebFOCUS has been rolled out to users across many departments. Faculty members can create reports to help them manage student performance, while administrators use it for backoffice functions such as registration and accounting.
运营影响
数量效益
Case Study missing?
Start adding your own!
Register with your work email and create a new case study profile for your business.
相关案例.
Case Study
IoT platform Enables Safety Solutions for U.S. School Districts
Designed to alert drivers when schoolchildren are present, especially in low-visibility conditions, school-zone flasher signals are typically updated manually at each school. The switching is based on the school calendar and manually changed when an unexpected early dismissal occurs, as in the case of a weather-event altering the normal schedule. The process to reprogram the flashers requires a significant effort by school district personnel to implement due to the large number of warning flashers installed across an entire school district.
Case Study
Revolutionizing Medical Training in India: GSL Smart Lab and the LAP Mentor
The GSL SMART Lab, a collective effort of the GSL College of Medicine and the GSL College of Nursing and Health Science, was facing a challenge in providing superior training to healthcare professionals. As clinical medicine was becoming more focused on patient safety and quality of care, the need for medical simulation to bridge the educational gap between the classroom and the clinical environment was becoming increasingly apparent. Dr. Sandeep Ganni, the director of the GSL SMART Lab, envisioned a world-class surgical and medical training center where physicians and healthcare professionals could learn skills through simulation training. He was looking for different simulators for different specialties to provide both basic and advanced simulation training. For laparoscopic surgery, he was interested in a high fidelity simulator that could provide basic surgical and suturing skills training for international accreditation as well as specific hands-on training in complex laparoscopic procedures for practicing physicians in India.
Case Study
Implementing Robotic Surgery Training Simulator for Enhanced Surgical Proficiency
Fundacio Puigvert, a leading European medical center specializing in Urology, Nephrology, and Andrology, faced a significant challenge in training its surgical residents. The institution recognized the need for a more standardized and comprehensive training curriculum, particularly in the area of robotic surgery. The challenge was underscored by two independent studies showing that less than 5% of residents in Italian and German residency programs could perform major or complex procedures by the end of their residency. The institution sought to establish a virtual reality simulation lab that would include endourological, laparoscopic, and robotic platforms. However, they needed a simulator that could replicate both the hardware and software of the robotic Da Vinci console used in the operating room, without being connected to the actual physical console. They also required a system that could provide both basic and advanced simulation training, and a metrics system to assess the proficiency of the trainees before they performed surgical procedures in the operating theater.
Case Study
Edinburgh Napier University streamlines long-distance learning with Cisco WebEX
• Geographically dispersed campus made in-person meetings costly and inconvenient.• Distance-learning programs in Malaysia, India, and China required dependable, user-friendly online tools to maximize interaction in collaborative workspaces.• Virtual learning environment required a separate sign-in process, resulting in a significant administrative burden for IT staff and limited adoption of collaboration technology.
Case Study
8x increased productivity with VKS
Before VKS, a teacher would spend a lot of time showing a group of 22 students how to build a set of stairs within a semester of 120 hours. Along with not leaving the teacher much time to provide one-on-one support for each student to properly learn carpentry, it also left a considerable amount of room for error. Key information would be misinterpreted or lost as the class was taught in the typical show-and-tell way.
Case Study
Scalable IoT Empowering GreenFlex's Sustainable Growth
GreenFlex, a company that supports sustainable development, decarbonization, and energy efficiency, faced several challenges in its quest to expand its business. The company needed to deploy a robust and sustainable IoT technology to support its growth. It was crucial for them to monitor and control devices at customer sites in a safe and reliable manner. They also needed to integrate devices across a range of communication protocols and gather and act on data to meet efficiency targets. GreenFlex had previously built IoT capabilities into its digital platform, GreenFlexIQ, to monitor and manage customer sites remotely. However, they soon realized that they needed a new platform to support their ambitions. They needed a platform that could scale to connect more devices for production management and make it easier for the operations team to manage devices in the field.
