Case study: b-Live

b-live is an innovator in the UK secondary education sector. They help students research and plan their careers using an exciting, stimulating and secure website environment.

Schools and colleges are invited to join b-Lives programme. Its a free service, which delivers career guidance as part of the national curriculum.

The b-live website presents students with opportunities to discover a wide range of careers. Students can search thousands of pages of information, career guides and advertorials.

Student interest is encouraged through youth-related articles, forums and b-lives' BOOM loyalty scheme. The loyalty programme rewards students for regular and active participation.

Programme sponsors provide industry and career information and employment opportunities.

b-Live has 100,000+ students on-board and registrations growing fast. With rapid growth, b-live needed to manage retention rates and student activity.

Solution

A Business Intelligence solution was implemented to support b-lives continued growth and success.

• Audit and appraisal of operational and website systems data
• Definition and implementation of data extraction and transformation routines
• Implementation of reporting databases
• Creation of interactive user reports and analyses
• Provision of training for business users

Benefits

The Business Intelligence solution provides readily accessible summaries and detailed information to business users on demand:

• Performance management
• Activity and communications
• User profile management
• Retention rates

The solution delivered a substantial cost saving to the project. b-live already used Microsoft technology to manage their business operations and website. Similar to many organisations, they weren't aware of the Business Intelligence platform, available at no additional cost.

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