Tag Archives: Education

Free Business Intelligence User Group

Club CALUMO is back! And as usual, it’s free! This event is open to all organisations with an interest in reporting, budgeting, forecasting, data analysis, data warehousing or business intelligence. Join us and meet and hear from our clients who love to share their experiences. Continue reading

VICTORIAN STATE GOVERNMENT FUNDING CUTS TO TAFE AND SOME GUIDANCE TO SUCCESS

The Victorian government has made some radical changes to TAFE’s in Victoria via the latest budget released last week. The media and TAFE’s alike are expecting huge job cuts.  This knee jerk reaction may be wrong according to Roger DalCastello from CALUMO.  Roger recently released his assessment of the changes… Continue reading

3 Steps to Automate your Annual Financial Report with Business Intelligence

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I recently met with Graeme Hoy from the University of Canberra to understand more about how CALUMO software was helping them out.  CALUMO is UC’s Finance reporting and budgeting tool.  Reports are delivered to many departments throughout the University as live web pages and some Excel reports too. CALUMO is also used… Continue reading

Business Intelligence in Universities – Briefing event co-hosted by Microsoft and CALUMO – 12 October 2011

Ray Fleming from Microsoft posted this event on his blog.  You can read it below or click here to go to his blog.
We’re [Microsoft] co-hosting a free ‘Business Intelligence in Universities’ event in Melbourne on the morning of the 12th October, at our Microsoft’s Freshwater Place offices. It will be a focused roundtable event, where you’ll be… Continue reading

Is knowledge power?

When in battle, the brave soldier wields a trusty sword to slay the enemy – but is the sword the only weapon in the arsenal of a warrior?

Just as the shield joins the sword to increase the chance of success in the battle ground, the modern day office warrior needs more

Using Microsoft for Business Intelligence in Universities

In a recent blog post by Ray Fleming (Microsoft Education Blog), Ray raises the question of using Microsoft SQL Server for Business Intelligence in the education sector, “Thinking about BI in Education? Want to know more about Business Intelligence programming in Microsoft SQL Server?”.

From my experience, it seems that Universities are the only place that I come across where comments are made that… Continue reading

BI In Education – University of NSW

First of trilogy of End User case studies, here is a short and potted history of deiverables at University of NSW.

CALUMO was invited by UNSW to assist them in reducing overheads and costs of their budgeting and reporting system.

Utilizing their existing technology and adding the CALUMO application layer, UNSW was able to provide effective management reporting across the University as well as a budget interface for… Continue reading