Decision Support Services (DSS)
Mission
Decision Support Services provides timely and accurate data, analytics, and insights to support the University’s strategy and decision-making processes. We are responsible for the development of a centralized, integrated decision support system termed the University DataCommons. The DataCommons provides strategic and operational insights to managers and decision makers throughout the university community.
More specifically, Decision Support Services:
- Develops data products and solutions that provide insightful analysis and analytics to support decision making
- Collaborates with academic and administrative departments across the university to: identify data sources, identify data quality issues, improve data quality and management, build a data catalog, standardize data definitions, identify and acquire new datasets, develop a centralized data depository using a “data lake” approach, and develop integrated data platforms and information sharing tools
- Promotes and advances a culture of data usage, data literacy, data transparency, data integrity, data management, and data access and sharing aligned with user roles and data needs
- Identifies and acquires new technologies and tools to support and further the University’s academic data and analytic needs
- Provides end user training to the university community on the decision support tools and solutions provided
Decision Support Services offers the following services:
Academic Data
- University-wide Data Strategy
- Data Collection, Aggregation, and Analysis
- Data Architecture
- Advocate Data Quality and Integrity
- Data Knowledge base
- External Data Acquisition
- Best Practice & Knowledge Management
- Thought Leadership
- Analytic Infrastructure and Tool sets
Academic Data Platforms and Solutions
- Decision Support Applications and Processes
- Descriptive/Diagnostic/Predictive/Prescriptive Analytics
- Data Visualization Solutions
- Dashboard and Reporting – Internal
- Data - Continuous Process Improvement
- Budget Process Support