SYDNEY,- 3 November, 2008 — After taking the difficult commercial decision to substantially change their Business Intelligence technology stack in February of this year, University of New South Wales have taken out a little time at the conclusion of their annual planning process to celebrate what has been achieved.
Reflecting on the process the UNSW Finance Division stated “This project has and will continue to be the catalyst for very positive change at UNSW. The UNSW team, with CALUMO’s expert guidance, are delivering a platform that enables us to maximise the financial resources available to support our teaching and research priorities more effectively and in minimal time.”
“The time frame from commencement to yielding real business value was astonishingly short. The University environment is very demanding and complex; the flexibility and performance of CALUMO has been excellent. It’s a breath of fresh air for the user community and the University was proud to be supporting world-class Australian innovation in Business Intelligence.”
CALUMO Group CEO Dominic Parsons said “As an academic institution there is a great deal at stake for the future in laying a platform that will enable the institution to effectively deliver on its vision. Working with the University has been a special opportunity for us and the combination of their staff, senior sponsorship and our delivery teams has produced a benchmark result.”
The UNSW system is serving 250 users with critical information in frequencies ranging from daily and monthly to quarterly and annually. It allows for collaboration across that broad range of users both for reporting and contribution to future financial and academic resourcing plans.
Summing up from the teams’ perspective MIS Manager Alister Cairns added “We are saving considerable time in administration compared with other products in the market. CALUMO’s simplicity of design and openness allows us a flexible system that we can use for data collection, analysis and reporting on a wide range of data. There are no unnecessary administration programs, and thus native Analysis Services, SSIS and SQL Server are used to develop and administer applications (Cubes, fact tables, data sources, dimensions etc.)”
“The CALUMO reporting frontend is intuitive and flexible in that we have a range of options for delivery to our wide ranging user community. We can use a web portal, Excel, deliver PDF's or hard coded excel reports. It is open for us to decide on our options for the data we choose to analyse, the user experience and administration.”
UNSW is using Microsoft and CALUMO Business Intelligence solution for their annual budgeting cycle, management reporting and forecasting. The value return from BI increases exponentially with deployment. Over the next 12 months UNSW are planning to further expand their BI platform to incorporate additional reporting and scorecarding.
About the University of New South Wales
UNSW was established in 1949 and now has close to 40,000 students, including more than 7000 international students from over 130 different countries. UNSW has an annual turnover of $1 billion and employs over 5000 staff. UNSW is a founding member of the prestigious Group of Eight research intensive universities in Australia and a member of the Universities 21 international consortium
About CALUMO
The CALUMO Group (www.calumo.com) is a leading provider of Performance Management solutions for enterprise-wide reporting planning and Business Intelligence. Since 1998 the group has successfully delivered solutions to a wide range of enterprises from SME's to some of the largest listed companies and government organisations. These solutions provide quantifiable and valuable business insight, offering a single platform from which to integrate Corporate, Financial and Operational performance and objectives.
The Group is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in Business intelligence (achieving full competency in both Platform and Performance Management Specialisations), Data Management Solutions and ISV/Software Solutions.