Strategic Planning Analytics and Reporting for Campuses (SPARC)

The University’s Strategic Planning Analytics and Reporting for Campuses (SPARC) dashboard is a management tool for campus decision makers to analyze financial resources at the department level. The product of over two years of work by the Advisory Working Group on Financial Planning, the dashboard provides detailed data in one convenient location, eliminating the need to manually run reports from different sources and systems.
The SPARC dashboard is used only for internal purposes and only for directional estimates to support decision making. This dashboard is not meant to be the sole source for decision making.

SPARC Pro is an analytics platform designed for campuses:

• Self-service, direct and exportable access to procurement data, reporting, and KPIs
• In-process tracking for all key stages of the procurement process (only contracts currently active)

SPARC Pro is a Tableau-based visualization tool leveraging data from Buyways.

• SPARC Pro is designed to be used in conjunction with Buyways
• Buyways is the system of record containing all transaction detail
• The visualizations in SPARC Pro are designed for campus department-level analysis