The Office of Business Analytics investigates and analyzes business and higher education data and metrics that allow recognition of current patterns and trends from the past that will aid in future decisions for the University.
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Finance & Operations Dashboards
Dashboards for various departments within Finance & Operations that are used by leadership to drive decision making. These dashboards contain a number of metrics and visualizations that provide data and analysis at a high level with the ability to drill down to more granular information.
Course Efficiency
A series of dashboards that were developed with the help of the Registrars office that provides course level information for Academic Affairs and the Dean of each college.
Featured Spotlight
Ad-hoc reports and analysis for executive leadership during COVID-19 Pandemic.
We offer consultation and facilitation services for academic and administrative units throughout The University of Alabama. Services include:
16 dashboards created Dashboards developed and used by departments and divisions on campus to make data informed decisions
96 Users Within departments and divisions at the University using developed dashboards
The University of Alabama in partnership with the Office of Business Analytics provides UA Faculty and Staff with access to analytical tools to analyze, evaluate and showcase a variety of data.
Microsoft Power BI is a suite of business analytics tools used to analyze data and share insights. Power BI dashboards provide a 360-degree view for business users with their most important metrics in one place, updated in real time. Microsoft Power BI allows users to model and visualize data to better understand business processes.
HelioCampus accelerates institutional analytics at a fraction of the time and cost of doing it yourself. Our comprehensive platform-as-a-service includes everything you need to accelerate or jumpstart your analytics initiatives – cloud technology, data infrastructure, data visualization, and most importantly, a data scientist to help you put it all to work.
The Higher Education Performance Analytics (HEPA) suite of dashboards provides insights across data domains and supports the adoption of Alabama’s new analytics infrastructure.
OIT offers collaboration building block tools and reporting infrastructure through applications including, but not limited to: Argos, Tableau, SSRS, Crystal Server, Microsoft 365, Microsoft Power Platform, Big Pulse, Kace/Jira, OnGuard, PCR360, M5, and Flex. In addition to supporting applications and software, OIT can provide IT consultation and guidance to help ideas become reality.
Microsoft Power BI webpage provides hands-on guided-learning approach with different online courses to meet your goals and learn at your own pace.