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Big Data is increasingly becoming an important source of strategic information for business intelligence. For this reason, Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR) has asked Dialogic to develop a platform where they can easily present and analyse various strategic data sets. Currently, several data sets have already been uploaded, including major global rankings from recent years and surveys among alumni.
The 'EUR-Metrics platform' enables EUR to find answers to strategic questions. Examples include: how does EUR perform compared to the national average? And what if we focus only on the economics programs? Can we explain the trend based on the administrative data? The answers to these questions are distilled in EUR Metrics by (partially predefined) analysis modules from various data sets, including a database with university rankings (more than 500,000 data points), alumni surveys, and internal administrative data such as student intake. EUR Metrics is real-time and interactive, allowing the selection of the relevant data cross-section at all times.
The EUR Metrics platform will be continuously supplemented with new data sets in the coming period. This will enrich EUR's dataset, which is used to support various decision-making processes (such as reputation building, marketing, profiling, and benchmarking). EUR has previous experience in this area. Dialogic currently provides the ERIMdashboard and RSMdashboard within EUR. Wilfred Mijnhardt, Policy Director of Rotterdam School of Management (RSM), stated: “The analytics delivered by Dialogic add significant value to the development of evidence supporting our strategic policies and greatly assist us in analysing our (inter)national competitive position.”
EUR Metrics is realised using the Dialogic Platform. The Dialogic Platform, developed in-house by Dialogic, enables the creation and sharing of interactive visualisations of Big Data in an intuitive manner. Thanks to the Dialogic Platform, EUR Metrics was realised within a very short period of time and with numerous short iterative cycles. This approach optimally met various requirements and evolving insights regarding functionality and visualisation. More information about the Dialogic Platform can be found on the website diadashboard.nl/platform.