Estate Information Co-operativeFor Universities

Manchester University

19th April 2012

“To provide Universities with a real insight into their buildings’ use and energy efficiencies through a process of regular estate data extraction and the provision of a collection of dashboards which can be used to identify an individual University’s rank compared to other establishments and facilitating the improvement of financial and environmental decisions based upon current facts.”

The Vision

The Estate Information Co-operativeFor Universities

Who are we?

Business Intelligence (BI) specialists Open Source solution providers UK Public Sector expertise

Meeting the state sector goal to adopt Open Source and move away from proprietary vendor “lock-in” whilst providing Business Intelligence

solutions within the Public Sector

Why EIC?

Hefce want to ensure that the HE sector - “. . . meets, and if possible exceeds,

the Government’s general targets to reduce carbon emissions by 34% by 2020 and 80% by 2050 against 1990 levels.”

Annual submissions to and results from HESA do not enable HEI’s to proactively monitor their carbon footprint

Decisions for improvements need to be made based upon current facts not annual returns

Why re-invent the wheel if another HEI is being more successful? Learn who to learn from

What is the EIC?

Centralised BI system to enable HEIs within JISC to effectively report key KPIs Providing regular updates on estate

data Central database of estate data

Hosted system to login to Dashboard for cross University

comparison Active Dashboards to show energy

usage against business hierarchy for each HEI in the EIC

Built with Open Source software recommended by central Government

Value of Co-op Approach

Co-operative approach allows for sharing of service and sharing of cost

Enables effective collaboration Low cost of ownership through a

managed external service Minimal impact to each HEI Can be developed over time to meet

all HEI general requirements consistently

Benefits of the EIC

Facilitates better decision making based upon recent facts not annual summaries

Enables HEIs to see the impact of their decisions on results data

Allows HEIs to show staff and students the impacts of energy initiatives

Increases awareness of how an HEI is improving against targets (no annual shocks!)

The Service

Access to the EIC dashboard system Data collation and loading Hosting 12 months Support 2 days services/training per University

– to aid data configuration and loading Annual Upgrades Bug fixing

Costs

£4,280 p/a per University Additional bespoke reporting priced on

a case by case basis Includes everything mentioned in the

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