The decision has been made that your institution will be switching to a new reporting tool. The existing tool has been in place for years. There are a multitude of reports that work like a well-oiled machine and haven’t been touched since their creation. However, that...
If you’ve been using Evisions’ Argos Enterprise Reporting Solution, you already know what a powerful tool it can be for making sense of complicated institutional data. But what you might not know is that Argos is much more than a reporting resource. In fact, with a...
Everyone loves a good shortcut to save time and make things more efficient, and when it comes to a complex system like Banner, sometimes we need all the help we can get. That’s where APIs come in. Application Programming Interfaces allow users to access a system from...
Let’s get a virtual show of hands…how many of you have mastered the art of manually gathering a student’s home address? It works fine, right? That is, until you have students that don’t have that particular address type. How about calculating a person’s age? That...
So…let’s say you’ve developed a really cool, really complicated DataBlock. It has 5 forms, 15 multi-column list boxes, 20+ parameters and a dozen SQL variables. A month after it goes live, a director comes up to you and says, “This would be even more useful if the...
Managing your institutional data effectively is no mean feat. Dozens of factors come into play, from your choice of reporting tools to the makeup of your institution’s strategic plan. With all those moving parts, it’s little wonder that mastering your data management...
