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For years, higher education institutions have faced the challenge of doing more with less. Competition for attracting students – who now look to loans instead of grants to finance their education – has increased. In order to minimize student loan debt, institutions must find an optimal balance between quality and cost-effectiveness.
As a result, it’s more important than ever for institutions to:
- Streamline operations while providing the best support for students.
- Utilize the best available resources.
- Understand institutionwide relationships that affect the response to student needs.
- Define targeted objectives – and the resources needed to meet them.
- Use data driven intelligence to support their requests for funding from external sources.
SAS® provides answers to your operational efficiency questions
Using SAS, college and university leaders at all levels can understand the big picture of operational efficiency by bringing data together from multiple sources and cleansing the data to ensure accurate reporting.
SAS provides advanced analytics that identify significant correlations in the data, analyze trends and predict future scenarios. Through modern point-and-click graphical user interfaces, the right intelligence can be surfaced to the right people – allowing users to make critical resource adjustments at the right time.
SAS can help with questions such as:
- How do we streamline budgeting and planning while maximizing results?
- What is our cost per student, per class, per program, or per classroom or building?
- Where can we improve our effectiveness by repositioning resources?
- What is the best way to improve our recruiting and student retention so that we minimize instability and maximize predictable student success?
- What recruiting strategies return the best results?
- What events cause a drop in retention? When should we position resources to intervene?
- What is the best way to tie operational efficiency back to overall institutional effectiveness, accreditation, strategic planning, operational planning and so forth?
The solution – bringing it all together with SAS®
SAS provides an integrated, flexible and scalable intelligence platform that serves as the foundation for creating and delivering accurate, in-depth intelligence across the institution and to all levels of education. The SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform is a low-risk framework that can grow and be customized into new applications to meet your future needs. This framework allows you to make the most of your existing IT investment because it integrates with a wide variety of data sources – ensuring a smooth flow of information across campus, departments or colleges. The SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform provides an unmatched ability to turn administrative, teaching and research data first into information, then into insight – allowing you to make effective decisions with confidence.
Using the SAS Enterprise Intelligence Platform as a foundation, SAS Financial Management, SAS Activity-Based Management, and SAS Human Capital Management help ensure that your institution’s operations are effective and efficient.
With SAS Financial Management, financial officers and other education leaders can:
- Develop accurate plans and forecasts that users can easily update in response to changing circumstances.
- Reduce the time and cost of producing and publishing financial reports.
- Maintain data integrity and security through the financial data mart that supports intelligent decision making.
SAS Activity-Based Management helps institutions:
- Determine factors that contribute to – and detract from – achieving optimal financial performance.
- Track costs of activities and work processes.
- Provide education leaders with cost intelligence to drive improvements.
SAS Human Capital Management helps institutions:
- Integrate disparate human resources data sources needed for workforce planning – providing analysis of demographics, diversity, age and critical skills.
- Recruit for hard-to-fill positions by incorporating data from the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Integrated Postsecondary Education Data Systems.
- Measure strategy against key performance indicators.
SAS solutions combine data integration and powerful analytics to surface meaningful, easy-to-understand intelligence – creating a solid foundation for improving operational efficiency.
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