The Business Intelligence Strategy Initiative The goal of this initiative was to develop a BI “Strategy” based on user requirements gathered through work sessions and interviews with a number of representative Penn State information users.  Once the strategy was created, we developed an Implementation Roadmap, including a high-level time line and an incremental, iterative framework on how to achieve the desired BI capabilities.  Both the BI Strategy and the Implementation Roadmap will help us understand the key BI priorities for Penn State, as well as provide direction and focus for all BI development and implementation efforts. Highlights of the Business Intelligence Strategy Initiative include: Project Approach The Business Intelligence Advisory Committee The Interview Process The key recommendation from the Business Intelligence Strategy Initiative is that,  for academic and academic-support units to continue to function effectively and efficiently, it is essential that Penn State move toward a university-wide approach to data management.  Data should be looked at as a common asset that can be made into information and knowledge to support effective decision making across all of Penn State.  The underlying concept behind the proposed strategic vision is the concept of Penn State data as a valuable asset that is commonly owned by the university community.  Penn State data should be looked at not as a collection of independent fragments but as a flow of interdependent events that provide maximum value only when viewed as a whole. Strategically, Penn State should move towards providing its information users (staff, faculty, researchers, and administrators, and others) with access to a unified and integrated view of Penn State’s core data; meaning university-wide data that are needed by a large number of Penn State constituencies and are core to the Penn State mission.  This integrated and unified data view will need to be secure, accurate, timely, consistent, intuitive, and easy to obtain so that information users are better able to assess their needs, set priorities, understand the impact of change, and thus fulfill their responsibilities more efficiently.  For additional details, see the Business Intelligence Strategy document.

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