Microsoft Business Intelligence Case Study
Microsoft BI is Head of the Class at
Coppin State University
Overview
The organization: Coppin State University
(CSU) is a fully accredited institution with
quality undergraduate and graduate degree
programs, attracting students from around
the world. Despite its small IT staff and
limited resources, CSU is widely recognized as
an innovator in the use of information
technology.
The challenge: CSU needed to find a way to
provide quality business and student
performance information to users across the
organization. Additionally, it need a better
way to manage and access complicated
metrics designed to measure the progress and
success of students, as required to maintain
its status as an accredited university.
The solution: CSU’s fully integrated
performance management solution includes
the following Microsoft technologies:
Microsoft Office PerformancePoint
Server 2007
SQL Server 2005 Enterprise Edition
Integration Services
Analysis Services
Reporting Services
Microsoft Windows 2000
“The Microsoft BI offering, combined with iStrategy’s industry
expertise, satisfied 90% of our analysis and reporting needs
right out-of-the-box. Eyes open and mouths drop when we
show new users how easy it is to use. Our ability to access
and analyze information has created a cultural change in the
way we look at things and make decisions.”
Prasad Doddanna, Director of Information Systems at Coppin State University
Coppin State University (CSU) is a residential liberal arts
university with a rich history in providing quality academic
programs in the arts and sciences, teacher education,
nursing, graduate studies and continuing education. As a
fully accredited institution, Coppin serves Baltimore residents
as well as students from around the world. It is widely
recognized for its intelligent use of Information Technology
(IT) and it is a recent recipient of the EDUCAUSE Award for
Innov