SAS, which got its start three decades ago in academic surroundings, provides data-driven performance management capabilities to improve an organization’s effectiveness as a whole, allowing educators to address a multitude of problems tied to improving every student’s educational experience.

K-12 performance management
Education legislation like No Child Left Behind signals changing expectations about the quality and kinds of evidence that reflect whether students are achieving positive outcomes. In response, schools and districts – just like the private and government sectors – are relying more on technology to help them meet their goals. IT infrastructures can be complex, heterogeneous environments – the result of years of investments. Unleashing data in these systems to provide the intelligence demanded by state officials, school boards, teachers, students and parents poses a constant challenge.

With SAS, schools and systems can assemble a comprehensive view of their organizations, allowing them to analyze data on student performance, finances and grants, teacher recruitment and retention, as well as data on all daily operations – from physical plant management to food service and more – in an integrated and highly effective manner.

Higher education performance management
Strategic performance management is critical in today’s higher education environment. Understanding institutional effectiveness is paramount. Without the capability that a sound strategic performance management initiative provides, a college or university will not be able to provide accurate accountability reports within its own college or university system, or to its stakeholders outside the system. Colleges and universities relying on state and federal funding, grants, capital contributions, and endowment income must demonstrate value to their stakeholders: students, alumni, industry, government and the public.

Demonstrating value involves developing a performance management strategy that incorporates key performance indicators that measure a plan’s effectiveness. The final step is communicating results to your staff and administration so action can be taken to make adjustments and meet goals.

SAS Strategic Performance Management
SAS Strategic Performance Management helps K-12 and higher education integrate existing data systems and provides a decision-support platform for robust, analytical performance management reporting. Our solution captures your strategy – no matter which management philosophy you choose – and reports on the performance indicators that demonstrate how well you are implementing your strategy and mission. And it takes the process further by helping you integrate, distribute and analyze information from across the enterprise – and then act on it. Organizations can see the causes and effects of strategy, identify sources of failure, and isolate best practices that lead to success. In short, SAS provides a strategic heads-up that helps organizations stay on course. SAS Strategic Performance Management also provides robust reporting and analytics for more operational or tactical performance management to support strategy. View a screenshot of the solution.

SAS Strategic Performance Management also works together with SAS Activity-Based Management to report on indicators related to cost and performance. SAS Activity-Based Management gives organizations the power to contain costs, improve operational efficiencies, and accurately predict future costs and resource requirements. SAS has consistently led the industry in helping large organizations manage, analyze and deliver information.