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Microsoft Education Analytics for K-12

Provide the right information to everyone in your school or district with a cost-effective Education Analytics solution. Using the Business Intelligence (BI) tools of Microsoft Office PerformancePoint Server and Microsoft SQL Server, all of your users—from the superintendent to classroom teachers—can generate reports and display them through familiar Microsoft Office tools, such as Microsoft Office Excel, or a Web browser. With access to relevant data from multiple sources, they can make better decisions by tracking progress against key performance indicators (KPIs).

Solving real-world challenges

An Education Analytics solution makes data available to all of your employees who need it, and helps avoid problems, such as:

• Valuable data locked away in silos
• Analytics information available to only a few people
• Uninformed decision-makers
• Inaccurate and unclear performance measurement
• Time wasted creating reports manually

Key benefits

An Education Analytics solution can help you:

• Increase student performance: Give teachers and administrators a clear picture of student performance at an individual or group level so they can adjust instruction accordingly.
• Make better decisions: Inform routine decisions and long-range strategic planning across all business functions and disciplines with accurate, readily-available data.
• Meet reporting requirement: Quickly and easily generate the reports you need for your school board and local, state, and federal requirements, such as No Child Left Behind (NCLB).
• Manage budgets more efficiently: Gain a better understanding of projected revenues and expenditures, keep track of your financial health, compare your costs for services (e.g. transportation) to other districts, and maximize the amount of your resources that make it to the classroom.
• Maximize funding opportunities: Improve responses to legislative and grant requests and compliance with the reporting requirements.

Why choose Microsoft?

Unlike other solutions that force you to choose whom you can afford to enable with powerful accountability an assessment tools, Microsoft delivers highly functional and affordable business intelligence for all of your employees. With Microsoft solutions, you get:

• Reduced costs: Take advantage of your existing investments in Microsoft products, such as SQL Server and Microsoft Office, and fully-integrate with other vendors’ ERP software (including PeopleSoft, Datatel, and Banner) and virtually any data source.
• Flexible functionality: Microsoft accountability and assessment is simple enough for average users, yet robust enough for power users.
• High adoption rates: Data is delivered through familiar interfaces, such as Excel, so your users do not have to learn a whole new system—which means they will actually use it, and less training.
• Strong partner ecosystem: Get the technology and assistance you need from a Microsoft education partner you can trust.

Customer success case studies

With a business intelligence solution, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools (CMS) has completely transformed the way that it collects, monitors, and analyzes data on student, teacher, and operational performance. Easy-to-understand dashboards visually present the district’s results based on key performance indicators (KPIs) that tie directly back to the goals identified in the CMS Strategic Plan. Now, the Board of Education can get a real-time snapshot of whether CMS is likely to meet, exceed, or fall short of its performance goals by 2010 and make timely adjustments to stay on track.

Next steps

• Find a Microsoft partner to help you plan and create an Education Analytics solution for your school district.
• Contact us to learn more about Education Analytics solutions and how they could help you.
• Take a test drive of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 for education.