Campus Technology Magazine Honors Information Builders Customer With an Award for Its Student Information System.NEW YORK New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of -- University of North Texas Health Science Center Implements a Comprehensive Online Student Tracking System Powered by WebFOCUS Information Builders (Information Builders, Inc., New York, www.informationbuilders.com) A software company founded in 1975 by Gerald Cohen that specializes in enterprise business intelligence and real time Web reporting. , the enterprise business intelligence (BI) standard of choice for organizations around the world, today announced that the University of North Texas Health Science Center was honored by Campus Technology magazine with a "Most Innovative" award for its Student Information System. The real-time application, created using Information Builders flagship WebFOCUS business intelligence software, protects students from academic and financial pitfalls by alerting faculty and administrators of students who are faltering and directs their academic counselors to provide the necessary guidance to ensure their academic success. The honored project uses business intelligence to create a comprehensive online student tracking system. The University wanted to create a system that met a number of different criteria. They needed it to be Internet-based and have a strong underlying database with robust integration capabilities for connecting multiple data sources. Finally, but just as importantly, the team wanted a solution that offered powerful data visualization See information visualization. functionality. WebFOCUS met all of the team's criteria. Visuals are key components to help cut the interpretation time of reading the Student Information System reports. They include color-coding and bar charts to reflect where students' scores range from the class or national mean. An added benefit of the system is that it has motivated mo·ti·vate tr.v. mo·ti·vat·ed, mo·ti·vat·ing, mo·ti·vates To provide with an incentive; move to action; impel. mo students to request counseling sessions to learn about their status and how they can improve their academic standing. "Information Builders has allowed us to focus on our medical students and provide them with exactly the information and support that they need to succeed," said Jerry Alexander, director of Academic Information Services See Information Systems. at the University of North Texas. "Digging through printed reports to find out about a student's situation took a great deal of time, but with our new system, this information can be found in one color-coded document and has allowed us to move more swiftly in addressing the individual academic needs of that student. WebFOCUS has truly allowed us to 'leave no medical student behind.'" Alexander and his team continue to fine-tune the tracking system and future versions of the system will include more "soft" qualitative information on the students, such as extracurricular activities, interests, and career goals to give faculty a more well-rounded view each student. "Information Builders is proud to see the University of North Texas recognized for the smart application of technology to benefit higher education higher education Study beyond the level of secondary education. Institutions of higher education include not only colleges and universities but also professional schools in such fields as law, theology, medicine, business, music, and art. ," said Gerald Cohen Gerald Allan "Gerry" Cohen, (born 1941) is the Chichele Professor of Social and Political Theory, All Souls College, Oxford. Born into a Jewish family in Montreal, Cohen was educated at McGill University, Canada (BA, philosophy and political science) and the University of Oxford , president and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Information Builders. "Education is an important building block for success and this is a great example of how technology can be used to enhance and ensure academic achievement." About the Award The annual Campus Technology Innovator Award is a competition for academic institutions, academic visionaries Visionaries may refer to:
About Information Builders Information Builders, is the leader in enterprise business intelligence and real-time operational reporting. The company's WebFOCUS product - the industry's most scalable, secure, and flexible - is able to meet all the reporting needs of the extended enterprise, ranging from analysts to power users to the widest deployments for hundreds of thousands of users. Additionally, WebFOCUS' empowerment em·pow·er tr.v. em·pow·ered, em·pow·er·ing, em·pow·ers 1. To invest with power, especially legal power or official authority. See Synonyms at authorize. 2. of organizations seeking to leverage all their data - by accessing it all from legacy to data warehouse - is unmatched. Information Builders' award-winning technology has successfully provided quality software and superior services for 31 years to more than 12,000 customers, including most of the Fortune 100 and U.S. federal government agencies. Headquartered in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. with 90 offices worldwide, the company employs 1,750 people and has over 350 business partners. |
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