Value Proposition canvas- Customer needs and pains
Business Intelligence for Education
1. SIVECO Education Analyzer
Business Intelligence (BI) for Education
SIVECO Education Analyzer is a suite of software tools that allows any Ministry
of Education to have a constantly clear and complete image over their national
education system.
The Education Analyzer provides an intelligent and efficient approach for
collecting, analyzing and presenting information needed for planning, decision
making and education forecasting.
2. SIVECO Education Analyzer
At a macro level, SIVECO Education Beneficiaries
Analyzer:
By providing multiple interfaces, the
¡ Offers a general framework for a SIVECO Education Analyzer offers complex
professional and cost-effective forecasting functionalities for all stakeholders involved
upon national education policies and long in the education system, localised:
SIVECO Education Analyzer
term strategies;
¡ At national level;
¡ Contributes to an efficient calculation of all
¡ At regional level;
resources within the education system;
¡ At school level;
¡ Provides cutting - edge IT tools for
supporting decisions within the entire ¡ For the general public.
education system;
¡ Contributes to the transparency of the
Governmental decisional process for
education evolution and modernisation.
Types of indicators managed by SIVECO
Education Analyzer
¡ Analysis indicators such as:
• Snapshot analysis;
• Time series analysis;
• Comparative (between similar indica-
tors) analysis;
• Roll-up and drill-down analysis.
¡ Forecasting upon education system key
indicators evolution; The solution includes a set of software tools
¡ Assistance in decision making process; for supporting the administrative process of
the education system - decision, evaluation,
¡ Analysis scenarios available on each
planning, forecasting and prognosis,
organizational level.
monitoring and control - for the specific
The data can be presented in user friendly needs of:
formats, using statistical tables, reports and
graphs.
Decision makers - the departments within
the Ministry of Education that are responsible
with Strategy and Educational Policies,
Statistics and Human Resources, Finance
and Accounting Department - all the parties
using the system to extract data necessary
2 for making decisions on schools planning or
on costs per student and/or teacher.
3. Technology
SIVECO Education Analyzer leverages the
power and flexibility of latest Microsoft
technologies:
¡ By introducing the OLAP multi-dimensional
analysis of education indicators the
Beneficiaries gain access to powerful
analysis being reserved so far only to
economic and financial environments.
¡ Microsoft SQL Server 2008:
SIVECO Education Analyzer
• SQL Server Analysis Services;
Central administration personnel and
representatives of the central admini- • SQL Server Reporting Services;
stration - including regional subsidiaries. • SQL Server Integration Services;
¡ Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2010:
• Excel Services
This category is enabled to extract statistics
about schools, students and teachers at ¡ Microsoft Performance Point Server 2007
regional or school level, data about teachers/
students ratios, student’s distribution and
other statistical information. This group
consists usually in administrative employees
like managers, operators, inspectors and
head directors, that need monitoring and
statistical information on part or on the whole
educational system.
Local administration personnel - the
principals and secretaries from each school
can access relevant information about
their own school or other schools, through
comparisons.
The general public - the general public
can access a wide range of information in
education, through the school map interface
and through a national education portal. Key outcomes
These tools address students, teachers,
The most important output is the set of
parents, administrative personnel, education
National Education Indicators (NEI), which
specialists, public institutions, private
provide accurate information regarding all
sector representatives and the media. This
schools, teachers and students enrolled in
component provides a higher transparency
the education system.
degree for the status of a national education
system. By providing multiple interfaces, the system
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offers dedicated reports, multi-dimensional
analysis scenarios of Education Indicators
and general information is made available
online.
4. SIVECO Education Analyzer
¡ Public National Education Indicators, It can also track and display comparative
available through the School Map web evolutions of similar or connected indicators.
interface provides accurate information
regarding schools, teachers and students
in the entire education system, like: The system offers:
• Number of urban / rural schools; Statistical data
• Number of students by gender; ¡ Operative status at the beginning of each
• Graduation rate; scholar year;
• Number of classes per school year; ¡ Number of students enrolled - by levels of
study, grades;
• Number of teachers in urban / rural
areas; ¡ Number of personnel and active positions
and other relevant information.
• Number of qualified teachers;
• Number of positions available;
Statistical research on education
¡ Private National Education Indicators -
¡ Number of students by various criteria, like
available only for the Ministry of Education
level of study, scholar year, age, nationality,
stakeholders – provide in-depth statistical
country of residence, native language;
information on education, useful for strategic
decisions regarding the evolution of the entire
education system.
Indicators’ analysis provides information
on overall education and individual school
evolution and offers support in identification
of any possible anomaly - sudden major
4 increase/decrease of students, poor results
for a certain subject, in certain regions etc;
Reporting history provides an accurate
comparison for indicators’ values over time.
5. ¡ AeL Learning and Content Management
System (LCMS) is suitable both for
synchronous and asynchronous learning
(distance learning) and for testing and
evaluation;
¡ It provides a virtual classroom, a course
management and an educational content
area where both learners and teachers
can collaborate on creating educational
content.
SIVECO Education Analyzer
¡ Personnel by categories and age groups; AeL eContent library
¡ School status at the end of each scholar AeL eContent offers an optimum mix of
year: pedagogy and entertainment, combining
• Enrolled students, graduated students, videos, interactive activities, experiments,
school abandonment. simulations and tests, all aimed at motivating
different types of learners. The learning
process is therefore transformed into an
Types of reports that can be generated by
exciting activity; a way to discover and
the system
explore, to observe scientific principles at
¡ Standard reports based on templates work and to apply the abstract theory in
provided by the Ministry of Education - everyday activities with the help of attractive
including titles, headers, footers and logos. educational materials suited for learner’s age
These reports can be printed directly and interests.
from the system, to be included in official
documents and studies;
¡ Custom reports, generated by users with
the included report builder;
¡ Graphical reports based on existing
national education indicators.
Main components for a complete
solution for education
SIVECO Romania offers a complete and
integrated solution for education, built upon
solid and reliable components, addressing
the management of and support for all the
educational processes within a national
education system.
AeL Learning and Content Management
System (LCMS)
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¡ Provides a modern learning experience
for learners and provides support for
teachers;
6. Human resources management:
SIVECO Education Analyzer
¡ Organisational charts: teachers, students,
class masters, auxiliary personnel;
¡ Information on students and teachers:
personal information, qualifications,
current and past activity;
¡ Scheduling - schedule rules and
generation, detailed schedule for each
teacher/student;
National Education Database (NED)
¡ Accessible at national, regional and school
AeL School Manager (ASM) levels;
Offers support for school management, ¡ Consists of central data collection and
including: business services, accessible through an
¡ School’s organizational management - by user friendly and productive collection and
study levels, schools, components; management interface;
¡ Management of classrooms / virtual
learning spaces. Business Intelligence
¡ Accessible at national and regional levels;
Management of learners’ results:
¡ Offers advanced analysis and reporting
¡ Grades, attendance records, results, based on NED system;
activity
¡ Extra-curricular activities, contests and
awards
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7. SIVECO Education Analyzer
School Map Conclusions
¡ Public executive overview and information SIVECO Education Analyzer provides an
web portal; intelligent and efficient solution for education,
¡ Provides general interest information by:
on the education system: list of schools ¡ Offering a permanent overview of the
per region, school information, statistics education system;
and performance indicators at national, ¡ Accelerating the workflow for collecting,
regional and school level; processing, generating and presenting
¡ Provides a drill-down interface allowing accurate indicators;
the visitors to narrow the visible data to the ¡ Significantly reducing the workload of
particular needed information; administrative personnel;
¡ The module uses the NED directly, ¡ Helping at developing the educational
therefore any new information is instantly public services;
updated on the web.
¡ Encouraging the transparency of the
decision-making process;
¡ Facilitating services to become more cost
effective and more accessible;
¡ Enabling the citizens to participate in the
decisional process in education;
¡ Improving and modernising the national
education system.
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