Representing a significant leap ahead into “next generation” data analysis for school districts, Sapphire Data Mining is a core component of the Sapphire line of products. Unlike other software products that require a totally separate database to accomplish data mining, Sapphire’s data mining capabilities are built into and fully integrated with the Sapphire Student Information System.
Information can be collected from any student assessment data source outside of the Sapphire database and brought together with Sapphire Student Information System data in a centralized location, accessible at anytime by the appropriate individuals in the appropriate areas.
Sapphire Data Mining allows a more in-depth reporting and analysis to support the accountability required by Adequate Yearly Progress (AYP) standards contained within the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB). With Sapphire Data Mining, the advanced user can build dashboards utilizing drag-and-drop capabilities that enable ad-hoc queries and reports. Data Mining’s powerful, web-based capabilities allow districts to make knowledge-based decisions by discovering causes, spotting trends and patterns, identifying anomalies, and visualizing correlations. Sapphire Data Mining does the heavy analytical lifting that would be either too difficult or too expensive to perform using standard SQL-based query and reporting.
- Fully web-based solution.
- Fully integrate external data silos with Sapphire Student Information System.
- Leverage the familiarity and all the advantages of the Report Writer.
- Produce charts, graphs and other statistical reports.
- Use drag and drop functionality to present visual representations of data from multiple sources on dashboards.
- Perform simple statistical analyses such as correlations and display them in various chart formats.
- Launch detail reports directly from the Dashboard.
- Create crosstabs, charts, gauges, and parameter input controls.
- Drill down, slice and dice, swap axes (pivot), filter and chart.
- Drill through to underlying transaction details.
- Advanced users can use the power of the MDX query language to produce multi-dimensional queries.
- Sort across or within hierarchies.
- Output to PDF, web format (html), Excel (xls), csv, rtf, and txt.
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