Over the years, Evisions has taken on numerous projects and tackled many support tickets centered on banded reports. From building custom reports to advising on complex procedures to reproducing outdated or multi-sourced reports, a lot of time has been spent in the...
Higher Education
The Growth of Voice AI in Higher Education
The penetration of artificial intelligence (AI) into our daily lives over the last several years has been rather incredible. Siri, Alexa, Cortana, Waze, Google assistant, music recommendations – the list goes on. The ability to talk to devices – and have them respond...
Getting Your Banner Black Belt (Lesson Three): Learn to Love SQL
Welcome to the third and final installment of our Getting Your Banner Black Belt series. In this post, we get into the fine details of querying with SQL. This, of course, is the heart of any Banner reporting you’re doing. (As a quick note, all the examples we discuss...
Getting Your Banner Black Belt (Lesson Two): Use Good Requirements Documents
Learning the ropes of Banner reporting can be a challenging process. There is so much data to work with, so many metrics to track, and so many purposes to be served. But even if mastering such a powerful tool can feel impossible at times, I can assure you it’s not....
Getting Your Banner Black Belt (Lesson One): Refuse to Become Overwhelmed
Mastering the art of Banner reporting can be easier than you might think! While Banner is a very complex Enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, the first step in understanding its inner workings is to refuse to become overwhelmed by the multitudes of data that...
Best Practices for Designing OLAP Cubes
For making complex data-driven decisions, you need a complex data visualization tool. Happily, OLAP (short for On-Line Analytical Processing) is fast becoming a ubiquitous method for the advanced analysis of multi-dimensional information. In Argos, our OLAP engine is...
A Complete Guide to Understanding IPEDS Reporting
Even as you read this, your institution of higher education is likely in the midst of some element of the IPEDS reporting cycle. With three reporting periods and a growing list of surveys, IPEDS seems to be endless. You know the surveys are required by the federal...
Addressing Advancement in the Higher Education Industry
People often confuse development, or fundraising, with advancement in the higher education industry. While the actions have many similarities, they are different. Advancement refers to making progress in various avenues related to a university's strategic plan. It can...
Writing Reports with a Scheduling Mindset
There is an ever-growing need for reports to analyze the mass of data gathered by institutions. Resources to create and execute these reports are limited. An option to reduce the manual component of processing and sending these reports is to use a scheduler to...