With a joint commitment to the Microsoft Platform for Institutional Effectiveness (MPIE), Nuventive and Datatel together offer a very compelling next generation solution for enterprise assessment and planning. This unique solution integrates Nuventive’s enterprise planning and outcomes assessment software, TracDat, with the Datatel Portal based on Microsoft’s SharePoint platform. This mutual commitment allows critical role-based information from a variety of sources (Colleague and Business Objects for example) to be used easily in assessment and planning by faculty and staff throughout the institution in a familiar productivity environment.

This collaborative solution establishes a dynamic, data-rich environment where everyone in an institution of higher education has an understandable and actionable planning context in which to review relevant data, ask questions, provide input, take action, and measure results – thereby clearing a path to institutional effectiveness and sustaining a culture of evidence.

In the increasingly complex world of higher education, simply collecting data is no longer good enough – you need to put it to constructive use to achieve your goals, and that requires a comprehensive, easy-to-use approach that invites input from all parties affected.

Nuventive and Datatel are also collaborating to provide high-quality services designed to support effective use of this software platform. This includes implementation services and strategic consulting services from the Center for Institutional Effectiveness. In addition, a wide variety of services to support general SharePoint utilization are available for those institutions that wish to augment their existing internal resources.

The TSO - Datatel Portal integration enables:

• Increased faculty and staff participation by leveraging the familiar daily productivity environment of the Datatel Portal
• Role-based data and a role-based planning context presented together in a collaborative environment
• Access of critical data/information from Colleague and Business Objects in a context that supports reflection and goal-directed action tied to assessment and planning
• Benefit from the joint Nuventive/Datatel roadmap for ongoing automation of critical data availability
• Ease of use with decreased training costs
• Easy integration into existing IT environment allowing access to critical data for enhanced decision making