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Cognos BI (Business Intelligence) Portal

Cognos BI is the starting point to access, view, or download business reports, analyze data, and monitor admissions, enrollment, and retention data. To learn about the Cognos BI Portal, please reference this guide.

The goals of the Cognos BI Portal are:

To empower administrators, department chairpersons, program directors, faculty advisors, and student affairs professionals to retrieve and explore data on student enrollment;

To promote an understanding for the common terminology and processes that encompass a student’s application to, registration at, and graduation from SRU;

To conduct its affairs in an open environment which values transparency and access to information; and

To further engage faculty and staff across the campus in the core business of the University, that is the recruitment, education, and success of lifelong learners.

SRU DATA COOKBOOK

View University and State System terminology and definitions, both business (functional) definitions as well as technical definitions.

The data cookbook can be found on our Rock Operational Analysis Repository (ROAR) site here. You will need to use your SRU log on credentials to access the link.

Data Requests

All requests for data or reports from the Office of Analytics and Decision Support should be submitted through the IATS work order system.

Directions for Data and Report Request Procedure

New Program Market Analysis

SRU relies heavily on industry and occupation projections and on job posting data to inform whether or not a new degree should be launched or a tenure track position should be filled. The default region of analysis includes 117 counties which are roughly within 150 miles from campus. When possible, we use job posting data to assist curriculum development.

To request Market Analysis, email request to kevin.mccarthy@sru.edu.

Survey Requests

Surveys are an excellent way to gather data, and Analytics & Decision Support can help faculty, staff, and students design and administer surveys using a variety of tools (ex. paper surveys, MS Forms, Google Forms, SurveyMonkey, Qualtrics).

Qualtrics is a popular survey tool. SRU has a license to the suite of Qualtrics tools, and all faculty, staff, and students can access it by clicking here and using their SRU network credentials to sign in.

Qualtrics Support

Analytics & Decision Support is one of several offices here to support SRU's use of Qualtrics.

Technical questions
- Pamela Beck || Coordinator of Accreditation and Assessment || pamela.beck@sru.edu
- I.A.T.S || helpdesk@sru.edu
Survey design and administration help
- Pamela Beck || Coordinator of Accreditation and Assessment || pamela.beck@sru.edu
- Kevin McCarthy || Director of Analytics & Decision Support || kevin.mccarthy@sru.edu

To request a survey to be built through Qualtrics, please fill out and submit this form per the directions.

Qualtrics Self-Help

Getting started (PDF guide)
Creating a simple survey (PDF guide)
Survey design basics (PDF guide)
Exporting and analyzing survey data (PDF guide)
Distributing surveys using social media (PDF guide)

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