REPORTING, ANALYTICS, RESULTS
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Decision Support For Higher Ed

Improving Institution Performance

 

Decision Support is the automated process of collecting, integrating, analyzing and presenting key information for better decision making.

At RS-5, we are dedicated to helping higher education institutions define and achieve their performance management goals. We are experienced specialists in establishing reporting and analytics infrastructure that includes data warehouses, data integration, reporting, performance dashboards and big data analytics.

Our work with 200+ higher education institutions has taught us that providing leadership and information management best practices are key to helping institutions achieve and enhance competitiveness.

Our approach is to make current information assets work (vs. purchasing more software/hardware) by helping to integrate these assets into an institution’s business processes to achieve adoption.

 Our reputation is to deliver what we promise.

Contact

➤ LOCATION

Baltimore, MD

☎ CONTACT

info@RS-5.com
(410) 657-2281


RS-5 gets things done in days rather than weeks, months, years, and they get it right – the first time.
— Chris Gill, CIO Drake University
 
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RS-5 Analytics Framework

RS-5 offers a comprehensive Analytics Framework that combines the power of connectors and apps to revolutionize the way you handle and analyze your data. Our framework provides a robust and scalable solution for organizations seeking to unlock the full potential of their data assets. Our Data Warehouse Framework comes equipped with a wide range of pre-built connectors that enable effortless integration with diverse data sources. Whether you need to extract data from databases, cloud services, APIs, or even legacy systems, our connectors provide a standardized interface for smooth communication. Our app ecosystem is designed to be modular and pluggable, allowing you to easily integrate and configure additional functionality specific to Higher Education. Whether you require Analytics for prospective students, admissions and enrollment management, or surveys, our apps seamlessly integrate with the framework, enhancing its capabilities without the need for extensive custom development. We also have apps for supporting various educational and statistical agencies’ data submissions, data monitoring and alert functionality, and metadata management.


Blackboard Analytics 

RS-5 provides affordable implementation, support and customization services for the Blackboard Analytics modules as well as the related reporting tools, Pyramid and Reporting Services.   Our team are former Blackboard (iStrategy) founders and employees, who together, designed, developed and implemented the Blackboard (iStrategy) Student/FA, Finance and HR modules for over 200 schools.



Decision Support

RS-5 delivers data visualizations, dashboards, and predictive analytics to empower you and your constituents to make confident data-driven decisions with a holistic view of your institution.  We take the guess work out of the equation based on our extensive experience implementing decision support systems in higher education for the student life cycle including student prospects to enrollment through graduation.



Rapid Data Warehouse

RS-5 has designed, developed and implemented over 200 data warehouse applications for Higher Education and other industries.  There is no replacement for Experience. This experience has provided us the opportunity to design and test data models for most business processes.  Today we are able to establish reporting and analytics applications in a fraction of the time of traditional vendor or build yourself approaches.


Data Management strategy and preparedness

RS-5 conducts strategic and operations reviews to benchmark what is working and help you develop a reporting and analytics road map to define areas for improvement.  We use our strategy and information architecture experience to facilitate an organization discussion with stakeholders and achieve stakeholder buy-in on reporting and analytics initiatives. We use an approach of “Rapid Time to Value” to prioritize initiatives and achieve consensus goals.


RS-5 delivers on time and on budget. We have been extremely pleased with their work. They are more partner than consultant on our projects.
— Kevin Joseph, Director, Business Intelligence, University of Maryland Baltimore County
 
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