Education

Overview

Schools, school districts, universities, and colleges use Cognos performance management software to improve student performance, deliver on performance mandates, improve financial performance, and enhance advancements management.

To achieve these results, Cognos, an IBM company, offers:

The right technology and solutions

Cognos provides an integrated platform for education performance management. It aggregates and leverages critical data, and delivers the scorecarding, reporting and analysis, and planning tools to optimize performance and accountability. With Cognos, educational institutions can make timely, informed decisions in all areas—student performance, recruitment, endowments, program costs, and more.

Cognos performance management software and services help the education sector to:

• Calculate curriculum costs, identify good fundraising programs
• Monitor student headcount and performance, program outcomes, school reputation, national agendas, and other KPIs
• Share secure Web-based information with all stakeholders
• Manage endowments and recruitment through driver-based planning
• Spot high- and low-performance schools or programs
• Map enrollment to attendance and attendance to performance
• Speed compliance reporting
  

The requisite experience

Administrators, school districts, universities, and colleges the world over choose Cognos, including:

• K12 education districts from Northern Ontario to Pasadena, California and Palm Beach, Florida.
• Zurich University of Applied Sciences and Southern Methodist University.
• Northwestern University, and the University of Kent.
  

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

Read about how universities are using Cognos to gain new insights into the most effective fundraising programs; where to find the best students and professors; and understand the exact costs of curriculum.

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.

The University of Wollongong

Podcast

Find out how this Australian university is using Cognos to get an accurate and comprehensive view of its operations and share consistent, timely information among departments and faculty.

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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