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Increase Enrollment, Retention, and Student Success: Best Practices for Information Delivery and Strategic Alignment in Higher Education

With a clear strategic focus, enterprise-wide business intelligence, and a formal best practices process for executing strategy, colleges and universities can navigate the operational challenges of data access and performance management to increase enrollment, retention, and student success. This white paper shows you how.

Data Quality Management: The Key to Successful Predictive Analytics

This white paper discusses the importance of data quality management as it relates to predictive analytics and explores various methodologies for assessing and improving data quality. It highlights best practices in preparing data for predictive analysis purposes and how poor data quality can negatively impact predictive modeling efforts.

Cost-Effective Business Intelligence as a Service

This paper highlights key requirements for successfully building and deploying SaaS-based BI applications for external users, and how some companies are using the WebFOCUS BI platform to make vital, timely corporate information available outside the firewall.

Leveraging Advanced BI to Increase SaaS Success

This white paper explores the types of reporting and analysis functionalities that SaaS users need, and the BI capabilities SaaS vendors must incorporate into their solutions to meet those demands. It presents some real-world successes and highlights the WebFOCUS BI platform as the ideal choice for SaaS vendors to extend their offerings with advanced BI features.

Big Data Analytics and The New Era of Data Warehousing

This paper discusses how customer demands have led to recent changes in the data warehouse market. As a result, companies and departments of all types and sizes can leverage advanced data warehouse solutions to facilitate effective use of innovative business analytics and support of various mission-critical BI initiatives.

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