Building an Executive-Level KPI Dashboard in Two Months
Aurora University Partners with Edify to Accelerate Progress Toward Strategic Goals
Edify partner since 2024
- type
- Private Institution
- location
- Aurora, IL
- undergraduates
- 5,924
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Opportunity
AU’s fragmented data landscape, with information spread across siloed data systems, made access and analysis laborious and time consuming. As AU’s president prepared to kick off their new institutional strategic plan at an upcoming Board of Trustees meeting, she sought a partner that could rapidly build an executive level dashboard to serve as a single source of data, tracking KPI benchmarks and goals across every facet of the strategic plan.
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Solution
EAB’s Edify team is partnering with AU to integrate multiple campus data systems into the Edify platform, which will provide them with a central data warehouse that serves as a single source of truth for all data questions. The team successfully launched the executive KPI dashboard in just two months.
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Impact
With Edify simplifying and automating previously time-intensive tasks, AU’s Institutional Effectiveness (IE) team can focus on providing their insights and expertise on key decisions campuswide. The executive dashboard will serve as a powerful source of guidance as AU works to meet the goals of their strategic plan.
Demystifying Data and Accelerating Insights
| AU's Data Challenges | Edify-Powered Solution |
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| Siloed data landscape makes access and analysis time-consuming | Data warehousing and reporting capabilities free up IE capacity to act as consultative data experts on key decisions |
| Campus stakeholders lack sufficient data literacy to confidently use data for informed decision-making | Current and planned dashboards make it easy for non-experts to analyze and understand nuances in data |
| Urgently need KPI dashboard to inform progress toward goals in new strategic plan | Edify team stood up an executive-level dashboard to track KPI benchmarks and goals in just two months |
"Edify empowers our team to maximize the value of our expertise by reducing the time spent on manual tasks. It enables us to leverage our specialized skills and focus on using the data to support institutional decision-making.
"Katie Tharp, AVP of Institutional Effectiveness and Decision Support
Aurora University
"We need to be able to show different audiences why we're making a decision and where the data is coming from. With many data sets across the enterprise in different systems, we’re looking to Edify to homogenize all that data—to give us easier, quicker access and a better view of all the data that influences our decisions.
"Derek Abrams, Special Assistant for Strategic Initiatives, Office of the President
Aurora University
