SIRI is celebrating its one year anniversary with expanded
access, enhancements, and significant progress towards achieving
the vision of a single authoritative source for information and
reporting. SIRI now includes reports and dashboards for financial,
human resource, procurement, and Resource Management analysis and
reports.
As part of the university’s ongoing IT and Financial
Transformations, UB instituted the Strategic Information Reporting
Initiative (SIRI), a campus-wide endeavor designed to put in place
a single, comprehensive, and authoritative source for reporting and
accessing strategic institutional information.
The university serves more than 28,000 students and over 10,000
employees, and as such, has a critical need for reliable, readily
accessible, and consistent information. Historically, however, our
university has faced a number of information challenges. Our size
and complexity have led to multiple (and often conflicting)
information sources and systems, differences in reporting
conventions and terminology, and gaps in communication of
information shared by various units. These multiple systems have
resulted in numerous data quality issues, as well as significant
inefficiencies and unnecessary costs incurred across campus.
To address these challenges, SIRI will integrate student,
research, financial, human resources, facilities, and philanthropic
data across funding sources into a single, reliable, and
continually updated repository, and provide a single analytic and
reporting solution for this data through state of the art tools.
SIRI will also provide the data reporting environment that will
build the foundation for enhanced analysis and strategic decision
making in the future.
Develop a complete strategy and implementation plan for
aggregating and integrating the various sources of information that
are important to the strategic, managerial, and operational
concerns of the university and its units and departments. Create an
easy and straightforward interface that can be used by unit
CFO’s, department managers, and central administrators to
access, interpret, and report the data.
