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With FormFusion, You Can Stop Dreading 1098-T Season
Although all students in the U.S. with qualified educational expenses receive an annual 1098-T, the tax form doesn’t arrive in their mailboxes by magic. Processing 1098-Ts is a perennial burden on institutions—one that...
Did You Know You Can Build an “App” in Argos? Here’s How
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...
Best Practices for DataBlock Design, Part One: Planning Your Ideal DataBlock
Jumping into DataBlock design can be a bit overwhelming at first. There are many objects to choose from, and many more possibilities on how to use them. To make this prospect a little less daunting, we’ve put together a series of blog posts that...
Industry Insights: SaaS in Higher Education
In the last decade, the Software as a Service (SaaS) model, has been a game-changer in the technology industry. Though colleges and universities have been hesitant to commit completely to SaaS software, there's no doubt that more and more...
Leveraging Banner APIs To Streamline Your Reporting Environment
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...
Three Steps to Building a Comprehensive Security Strategy
We’ve talked before about the importance of security in protecting your organization’s data. In our most recent post on the subject, we discussed, in detail, the process of establishing good security measures within your applications....
Harness the Power of Built-in Banner Functions
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...
Best Practices for Using Extract Reports
Anyone involved with institutional reporting will tell you that when it comes to the end results, one report definitely does not fit all. Submitting reports to third parties—be they government agencies, financial institutions, or higher ed...
Configuration Tips for Improving your Data Security
Few things are more important in higher education IT than the security of institutional data. Current technologies, while incredibly useful, also make data more vulnerable to theft, extortion, manipulation, and other...
6 Common Misconceptions About Data Management in Higher Education
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...
The Anatomy of a DataBlock
When talking about institutional reporting, it’s easy to get lost in a discussion of the data itself. What information should a given report include? How do these two metrics correlate (or not) with one another? Which definition of ‘FTE Student’...
Four Reasons You Should Take Naming Conventions More Seriously
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...