In every area of the public sector, employees must deliver the best value for taxpayers, achieve higher levels of service, and streamline decision-making. All this is being demanded in a climate of shrinking budgets and resources. How can federal, state and local organizations use BI to streamline processes associated with unifying data assets, accountability and performance management, e-government, public safety and homeland security and HR management?

Business Intelligence has enabled the public sector customers worldwide to increase efficiency by streamlining data integration, improving accountability through managed reporting and scorecards, and enhancing their online initiatives with easy-to-use, web-based reporting. As these technologies in the BI space continue to evolve, agencies look to a variety of solutions to meet their needs. As in many other sectors, BI managers continue to look to embedded solutions to achieve emerging best practices in customization and enhanced functionality without having to substitute core BI applications such as Cognos. Some of the key challenges in the Public Sector and the emerging BI technologies that have designed to address them are as follows:

1. How can agencies save money by improving BI reporting relevance, reducing support staff and accuracy reducing paper, staff costs, and redundancies.
2. How can law enforcement agencies produce centralized information on threats, arrests, prisoners, and outstanding warrants for multiple offices?
3. How can administrators in our universities and K-12 public schools streamline operational processes and capture insights into their institution to enhance their overall performance? Many universities and colleges are drowning in data - the institutional data they've collected to improve performance and meet demands for accountability. Consider the sheer volume of data generated at any institution. On a given day, prospective students submit applications for admission, faculty log assignment grades, the business office runs payroll, alumni contribute to the annual fund, and a professor wins a foundation grant to conduct new research. That information piles up quickly. The student information system (SIS), course management system (CMS), enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and other mission-critical applications overflow with information. Yet, few administrators can use this data to improve institutional performance. Generating a custom report often requires a trip to the information technology department and spending considerable time and resources. Even then, there's no guarantee of success.
   Business Intelligence can simplify this process by employing reporting applications that can be fully customized by end users allowing to schedule run times and even email the findings to colleagues., These applications draw data from multiple sources and provide users with sophisticated models for analysis allowing administrators to take full advantage of emerging technologies in the BI space that provides insight into institutional performance rather than an account of its transactions.

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