10 Dashboards:

At every university, one thing is constant: important decisions always loom on the horizon. To make smart decisions and set a course for a bright future, executives and leaders need access to timely, relevant, and accurate information.   

One major challenge to running a large university is that key decision-makers are often dealing with too much data, in too many formats, in too many places to be useful. They might not even know where to find all this data, or that it even exists.    

That’s where our Decision Support Initiative (DSI) comes in. Launched in 2015, DSI supplies timely, relevant, accurate data to facilitate better decision-making. DSI brings together disparate data sources in easy-to-use, self-service reports, so leaders always have access to high-quality information. Shared data sources ensure that leaders across all campuses and units have the same data and can use it to develop solutions to various challenges based on a single source of truth.

Academic Metrics 360: Dig into the data with dashboards

DSI’s flagship project is Academic Metrics 360 (AM360). AM360 is a suite of easy-to-use online, interactive dashboards that empowers university decision-makers to measure, compare, and analyze trends about the financial health of their responsibility center (RC).

IU uses a financial system called Responsibility Centered Management (RCM), which gives RCs responsibility both for generating income and managing expenses. Data transparency across schools and units are the foundation of
RCM, and AM360 supports the management process by making data easily accessible to faculty and staff leaders.