siliconindia | | DECEMBER 202219evaluating the pros and cons of both approaches, the CDO decided to leverage DV to build a logical data warehouse, enabling a true self-service BI infrastructure.Realized Business Benefit: The new system enabled business stakeholders to generate operational reports and business analysis reports quicker than ever before--in a matter of hours rather than days. Also, whereas it would have taken eight months to build a physical data warehouse, Seacoast was able to deliver a similar logical system in half the time, resulting in a 50 percent faster time-to-market.2. Enabling Data-Driven Decision Making for ExecutivesData Governance Challenge: Executives need to make rapid, accurate decisions to increase revenue, cut costs, and run the business effectively against the competition. However, many times in large organizations, important decisions are made in blind faith, with very little data backing them. This was the case for Indiana University. The college provost had to make critical decisions regarding faculty recruitment, course availability, and student admissions without concrete data to back him up.Solution: The CDO at Indiana University launched a Decision Support Initiative (DSI), leveraging DV as an important foundation to provide timely, relevant, and accurate data to facilitate better decision making within the University. Acting as a universal access layer, data virtualization connected users and applications to multiple data sources underneath, in real time.Realized Business Benefit: The CDO delivered critical insights through a catalog of reports and dashboards to the executive management team, which he termed as Academic Metrics 360. One such insight is an examination of majors versus non-majors by credit hours, which revealed where students are heading to earn their credits, the results of which can be used, for example, by the business school to team up with the School of Informatics to deliver an integrated curriculum.
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