The delivery and management of business analytics at Imperial College are supported by an Analytics Centre of Excellence (ACoE) which is part of Information and Communication Technology (ICT).

Our vision is that "Imperial College's mission is achieved with confident data-driven decisions, underpinned by a collaborative organisation-wide insights-culture that can readily harness excellently managed strategic business data."

The ACoE acts as a Strategic Decision Partner, working with the rest of the College to articulate and answer questions with data and analytics. The ACoE is based in the Cross-Functional Product Line in ICT.

The ACoE is involved in the delivery of analytics to our colleagues throughout the College, the management of the College’s analytic and reporting platforms, and support for staff self-service analytics, user groups, and our communities of practice.

Services provided by the ACoE

Core

• Design, warehousing and management of the College's analytics datasets.
• Building College analytics dashboards and reports and supporting others building them.
• Developing and maintaining reporting standards for College analytics dashboards and reports.
• Managing the College’s suite of analytics tools and supporting staff in their use.

Advanced

• Working with staff in developing advanced reporting and data science using Machine Learning and AI.

Tools 

The following analytic tools are supported by ICT.

Microsoft Power BI 

This is our enterprise business analytics tool, for self-service, and enterprise reporting and dashboards. Find out more about Power BI by visiting our web pages. 

Imperial College Analytics (ICA) 

This is our legacy enterprise business analytics tool for the College. It includes reporting on Student and Research data. Content that exists in ICA is being migrated to Power BI, with a target end date of Dec 2022. 

Azure Machine Learning and Cognitive Services (Artificial Intelligence) 

Email the team for more information. 

Advanced Data science support 

Email the team for more information.  

For information about how we can help please email us.

Join the Business Analytics Community of Practice Microsoft Teams Site with over 100 members across the college. Ask questions, keep up to date, share ideas and collaborate.