Decision Support is a Business Intelligence Competency Center: A unit responsible for scoping, designing, and delivering solutions to business problems using a combination of enterprise data warehouse and business intelligence frameworks. DS works with customers to optimize administrative data usage for effective information management. By managing the University’s data warehouse, providing data access, supporting staff report development, and providing data education and training, DS supports the University at nearly every level. With new technologies, such as dashboards and OLAP browsers, DS continues to transform raw data into valuable information to help guide strategic decision making at each campus and University Administration.
See http://www.ds.uillinois.edu for more information about DS.