Portland State University Streamlines Budgeting and Controls Costs

Answers in Analytics: Portland University Success Study

 

Problems:

• How to streamline budgeting
• How to control costs
• How to increase student retention

Solution

Portland State University implemented IBM Cognos BI and TMI for control over finances and student retention.

Results

• Portland State University now has deeper insight into budgeting and student performance;
• It can manage finances to keep tuition costs low.

The role of Prolifics

• Prolifics helped PSU structure and automate the university-wide budgeting process;
• Prolifics automated integration of Ellucian banner data;
• Prolifics extended the solution to include enrollment and tuition revenue planning.

“Prolifics was able to take a budgeting system which was inadequately designed and turned it into a fully functional system which is user friendly, much easier to maintain and incorporates best practices.”

– Robert Naranjo, Business System Analyst/Programmer, Portland State University