Performance management initiatives in the areas of budgeting, multi-year forecasts, reporting, analysis, dashboards, and data warehousing in strong demand at higher education institutions today. Facing rising costs and limited funding sources, universities and colleges are increasingly looking towards modern Business Intelligence (BI) technologies to help drive organization-wide change and performance improvements.

The Microsoft-based BI360 solution gives education managers the ability to quickly deploy an integrated, cost-effective solution for:

• Budgeting, forecasting and modeling 
• Reporting and roll-ups
• Dashboards and scorecards based on key performance measures
• Data warehouse or data marts

With BI360, educators will be able to:

1. Implement a combined reporting, budgeting, dashboard and data warehouse solution for:
   • Financial data (e.g. GL, AP, projects, assets, etc.)
   • HR/Payroll data
   • Student data (recruiting/admissions as well as current students)
   • Other data (survey data, class data, etc.)
2. Engage department heads and administrators in setting goals
3. Assess funding needs
4. Develop focused strategies
5. Track progress and evaluate continuously
6. Demonstrate improvements
7. Reduce costs and improve administrative processes
8. Increase accountability and student satisfaction

Solver and its global network of implementation partners will implement the Microsoft-based BI360 solution to aid educational institutions in delivering on their missions, goals and objectives.