Case Study: Tarleton State University achieves same-day, web-based interactive reporting and faster decision-making with Information Builders' WebFOCUS

Tarleton State University Graduates to Business Intelligence

Information Builders’ WebFOCUS platform was implemented at Tarleton State University to replace a slow, manual reporting process tied to the Banner ERP. Staff were spending days writing SQL and formatting output in Excel—semester reports could take up to two weeks and the Fact Book up to a month—while daily enrollment and ad hoc requests burdened IT and institutional researchers across multiple campuses.

Tarleton deployed the WebFOCUS Education bundle with training and consulting to build a web-based Texan Facts/Fact Book portal that integrates with Banner and Active Directory and loads data nightly into a warehouse. The result: dynamic, parameterized reports available on demand, elimination of paper-based and manually formatted outputs, turnaround cut from weeks to the same day, reduced custom-report requests, and faster, broader access to enrollment and planning data.

Tarleton State University

Brad Chilton

Vice President of Enrollment and Information Management