The functions and features most commonly offered by institutional reporting and analytics platforms (HelioCampus, Rapid Insight, EAB, Civitas and Ellucian Analytics), and the HERM business capability each one supports. Reporting and analytics covers getting trusted data out of the source systems, producing the official numbers, and helping people decide with them: integration and the institutional data model, governance and privacy, census, IPEDS, state and accreditation reporting, dashboards and self-service, domain analytics, and predictive and scenario modeling. The SIS, ERP, HR system and LMS stay the systems of record; transactional processing and single-system operational reports are out of scope, apart from the feeds into the warehouse. See also the SIS, finance, HRM and advising wheels that feed it.
Shows which parts of the institution reporting and analytics supports, where it overlaps other systems, and where it stops.
A function's main HERM home vs others it touches. Features narrow to one capability.
19 HERM capabilities touched, centred on data management, business intelligence & reporting, compliance and information security.
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How this was compiled: three AI assistants (Claude, Perplexity and Grok) were each asked to identify the core functions and features of the major higher education institutional reporting and analytics platforms. Their lists were reconciled into this single set, using the Claude draft’s structure; source letters on each feature show which drafts named it. Treat it as a starting point, not a vendor-verified specification.
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The full hierarchy: areas, functional areas, functions and features, each with its HERM mapping and definition. Select any HERM capability or feature to see its full definition.
Reporting and analytics is rarely one system. Here the same functions and features are mapped to the applications a fictional Example State University actually runs: a vendor core, add-on modules, third-party products, homegrown tools and spreadsheets. Each link records how well the application covers the feature and its role. HERM coverage is then calculated from those links, not mapped by hand.
Also see this ecosystem as a capability × application matrix or a HERM-to-application flow.
Inner rings: area and functional area. Outer ring: one slice per feature, split into bands when more than one application provides it. Marks outside the ring flag gaps (red) and competing systems of record (violet).
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The executive view. Each bar is the capability’s features, coloured by the best coverage any application gives them. Select a capability for its HERM definition, or an application to see its footprint.
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