Portland State University Success Story
February 19, 2020
PSU graduates to the next level with IBM COGNOS TM1
Customer profile
- Nationally acclaimed school in downtown Portland
- Over 3,500 staff members, 29,000 students
- Over 220 degree and educational program offerings across eight schools
Key challenges
- Limited public funding creates constant pressure on expense management
- Challenges with accurate student enrollment planning
- Existing Excel templates were fragmented, inconsistent and manually intensive
- Difficult to consolidate data from various academic and administrative offices
- Data integrity
Objectives
- Structure and automate the university-wide budgeting process
- Automate data integration with Ellucian Banner
- Overall process optimization and automation
- Standardize and integrate planning sub-modules
Results
- Integrated web-based, workflow-managed planning solution
- Significantly shortened budget and forecast cycles
- Automated integration of Ellucian Banner structures and data
- A low-maintenance and efficient solution with minimal burden on Finance
- Better data, better analytics!