Institutional effectiveness for Higher Education

Microsoft in Education | IT solutions

Unlock the power of data for all of your administrators, faculty, and staff.

Help increase student performance.

Meet enrollment goals.

Manage recruitment and retention.

Help meet state and local reporting requirements.

Overview

Provide everyone in your institution with the right information they need to make decisions using an institutional effectiveness for Higher Education solution. It gives an intuitive and cost-effective way to enable all of your users to access and analyze information through familiar tools such as a web browser, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft SharePoint.

With ready access to relevant data from virtually any source, your users can make better decisions and inform actions by tracking progress against key performance indicators (KPIs).

Maximize opportunities

Institutional effectiveness solutions can help Higher Education institutions:

Make better decisions. Inform routine decisions and long-range strategic planning across all business functions and disciplines with accurate, readily-available data.
Use budgets more efficiently. Gain a better understanding of projected revenues and expenditures.
Meet enrollment goals. Make it easy to analyze recruiting and retention data, grade and graduation trends, tuition discounting programs, and other information.
Maximize funding opportunities. Improve responses to legislative and grant requests, compliance with the accreditation requirements, and tracking of top alumni donors.
Increase student performance. Give faculty a clear picture of student performance at an individual or group level so they can adjust instruction accordingly.

Why choose Microsoft for institutional effectiveness?

Some solutions focus on enabling a select few with expensive, specialty tools. The Microsoft business intelligence (BI) strategy is to enable breakthrough organizational results by bringing BI to the “masses” and equipping all employees with affordable, familiar tools that align an individual’s everyday actions with the organization’s long-term goals. With institutional effectiveness solutions, you benefit from:

Reduced costs. Take advantage of your existing investments in Microsoft products, such as SQL Server and Microsoft Office.
Rapid time to value. Connect with your ERP software (PeopleSoft, Datatel, Campus Management, and Banner) and many other data sources.
Flexible functionality. Institutional effectiveness solutions are simple enough for average users and robust enough for power users.
Make better decisions. Data is delivered through familiar interfaces, such as Microsoft Excel, so your users do not have to learn a whole new system—which means they will actually use it.
High adoption rates. Get the technology and assistance you need from a Microsoft education partner you can trust.

Find a partner

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Products

Microsoft Office 2010

Microsoft Office 2010 provides the ultimate arsenal of productivity tools for your education organization. From word processing to classroom presentations and animated web design, Microsoft Office delivers a powerful and easy-to-use experience.

Microsoft Excel

Microsoft Office Excel is a powerful tool you can use to create and format spreadsheets and to analyze and share information to make more informed decisions.

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2010

Microsoft SharePoint Server offers an integrated suite of server capabilities for building educational portals. Portals provide easy access to curriculum resources, student records, and classroom materials and activities.

Microsoft SQL Server

Microsoft SQL Server is a trusted, productive, and intelligent relational database management system that provides an enterprise-ready data platform for organizations to manage any data, any place, any time.

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