Education

IBM Cognos Enrollment and Tuition Planning Performance Blueprint

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For many universities and colleges, tuition is a major source of revenue. Being able to track and project such metrics as enrollment, tuition discounts, retention and matriculation rates, and revenue potential can help a higher education institution succeed in a climate of reductions, in both public funding and student numbers. It can help organizations meet cumbersome reporting requirements for government funding, compete for top students and staff, and plan for its continued legacy.

Leave cumbersome, spreadsheet-based planning behind

Many institutions track enrollment and tuition for planning or reporting purposes through spreadsheets. What results is an inflexible, time-consuming, cumbersome process that suffers the usual shortcomings of spreadsheet-based processes:

• Finding and validating data is challenging
• Data is error prone, and an inordinate amount of time must be spent collecting and validating it rather than analyzing it
• Costs prescribed by the model may not reflect actual costs the budget owner sees in their own organization
• Budget owners cannot analyze their budgets or do scenario planning
• There is no integration of budgets with performance management tools
  

Integrate enrollment and tuition planning with performance management

Based on industry best practices, the IBM Cognos Enrollment and Tuition Planning Performance Blueprint helps organizations improve revenue planning. Combined with performance management, the blueprint lets budget owners:

• Analyze trends, history, and projections
• Produce dynamic reports with hierarchical drilling capability from summary to detail, such as the profitability of a single class
• Create efficient and rapid changes across all levels
• Provide a collaborative application with narrative ability
• Plan for an entire year with the ability to submit modification
• Perform “what-if” modeling and scenario analyses to compare alternatives, such as adding capacity to enroll more students
• Improve budget accuracy and consistency through integrated planning and greater flexibility

View the Blueprint:

See the IBM Cognos Enrollment and Tuition Planning Performance Blueprint on the Cognos Innovation Center for Performance Management, where you can:

• Read the Issue Paper to understand the value the blueprint offers
• Read the Application Brief to see how the planning model works
• Download the blueprint data model (if you’re a customer and member of the Innovation Center)
• View the Web Demo to learn how to use the blueprint solution

Additional Resources:

Business Intelligence for Higher Education

Online Demo

This demo will illustrate how Cognos can provide a complete solution for addressing reporting and analysis needs for colleges and universities that range from finance, planning and budgeting, recruitment, tuition, admissions, student retention, and alumni development.

IBM Cognos Enrollment & Tuition Planning Performance Blueprint for Higher Education

Online Demo

View this demo to learn how to better understand and plan for changes in demand, to adopt new strategies to deal with the evolving market for education, and ultimately to assure the ongoing legacy of your institution.

Managing the Business of Education

White Paper

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IBM Cognos 8 Planning for Higher Education: Plan to Perform

White Paper

Find out how to use business modeling, budgeting, planning, and forecasting to deal with ineffective processes and technologies, and accurately assess market conditions.

Education Customer Story Bundle

Article

Learn how organizations such as the University of Minnesota and the Burke County Board of Education are using Cognos to save time and money, while enhancing student performance.

K12 Enterprise Planning

Online Demo

This demo shows how a school district can use Cognos performance management software to manage student achievement as well as budget for the future.

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