MARS

About Keck USC Management Analytic Reporting System (MARS)

MARS is a performance management platform - it gives Administrators and Executive Leadership insight into USC's Medical Enterprise activity through a central data repository extracted from multiple data sources that is cleansed, standardized and made available in a timely fashion, to users throughout the enterprise using various modalities.

  • Centralized - single version of the truth
  • Cleansed & Standardized - 'apples-to-apples' comparability regardless of source
  • Timely - Daily data extracts and processing into warehouse
  • Made Available - using familiar business tools like Excel, Email , SQL Server, SharePoint; lowering licensing, implementation and training costs
  • Various Modalities - Leadership receive email reports and dashboards, managers and administrators can drill to detail to seek root causes using familiar tool (Excel).
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Performance management gives the organization the ability to discover areas of underperformance, find root causes, and track process changes to ensure that goals are consistently being met. MARS influences planning, budgeting and process improvement by enabling managers to analyze data from multiple angles in real time without requiring any specialized technical knowledge beyond Excel. Through a direct relationship with business units, MARS continuously delivers new functionality in response to business requirements. MARS leverages the following in order to deliver a useful and relevant product:

  • Close ties with business units
  • Development driven by tech-savvy business analysts
  • Flexible technical infrastructure allowing ongoing development
  • Flexible architectural infrastructure allowing inclusion of new data sources
  • Data extraction tools that efficiently perform task of presenting source system data in accessible format