Achieve a more intelligent campus:
business intelligence in higher education
Fully exploit your data to improve decision-making and cut costs
FREE briefing for higher education organisations looking to optimise their use of business intelligence
Thursday 24 January 2008
09:30 – 14:30
Oracle City Offices, 1 South Place, EC2M, London
OVERVIEW OF THE EVENT
The competition to attract students and resources is tougher than ever. Colleges and universities must improve the quality of their tuition and services, even as their budgets shrink. Although they accumulate vast amounts of data on staff, students and suppliers, higher education organisations often find it is spread across incompatible IT systems and file formats. As a result, the information is not available to decision makers.
Access to timely, accurate and complete data is vital if decision-making and planning are to be improved. Staff must be equipped with analytical and reporting tools that will empower them to:
- Improve long-term planning using timely, accurate reports;
- Save money by analysing projected revenues and expenditure both accurately and completely;
- Make decisions based on high quality, current information;
- Improve student retention and graduation rates through better analysis of admissions data;
- Implement a more effective curriculum that more closely matches the needs of students; and
- Cut facilities costs by planning space more accurately.
An effective business intelligence solution can do all this, bringing together data from disparate sources and enabling staff to access, analyse and share information.
Come and join Oracle and SolStonePlus at this free seminar, where both companies will provide new insight into how your organisation can maximise its use of business intelligence.
Special guest speaker David Sowerby, Systems Development Manager at the University of Bedfordshire, will outline the challenges his institution faces and how business intelligence will help to tackle them. This event is also an opportunity to learn more about Oracle’s feature-rich BI platform.
SolStonePlus is Oracle’s most experienced Business Intelligence partner, with 25 years in the business. The company has over 500 customers throughout Europe.
Agenda
| 09.00 |
Registration |
| 09.30 |
WelcomeDuncan Fitter, UK Business Development Director, Oracle |
| 09:35 |
Introducing SolStonePlus, Oracle’s most experienced BI PartnerGraham Spicer, Chief Executive, SolStonePlus |
| 09:45 |
Oracle’s BI & EPM StrategyDuncan Fitter, UK Business Development Director, Oracle |
| 10:15 |
The Need for BI In Higher EducationDavid Sowerby, Systems Development Manager, University of Bedfordshire |
| 11:00 |
Break |
| 11:15 |
How does Oracle’s BI Strategy Resolve these Issues?Graham Spicer, Chief Executive, SolStonePlus |
| 11:30 |
Delivering BI Across The Campus: Oracle Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus in Action!Paul Cannon, Consulting Director, SolStonePlus |
| 12:30 |
Lunch |
| 13:15 |
Delivering BI Across The Campus: Oracle BI Publisher in Action!Lisa Dobson, Pre-Sales Consultant, SolStonePlus |
| 14:00 |
Panel Discussion
University of Bedfordshire: David Sowerby |
| 14:30 |
Close |
* Agenda may be subject to change without notice
