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Data analysis plays an important role for decision support irrespective of type of industry like any manufacturing unit and educations system. There are many domains in which data mining techniques plays an important role. This paper proposes the use of data mining techniques to improve the efficiency of higher education institution. If data mining techniques such as clustering, decision tree and association are applied to higher education processes, it would help to improve students performance, their life cycle management, selection of courses, to measure their retention rate and the grant fund management of an institution. This is an approach to examine the effect of using data mining techniques in higher education.
Keywords: ERP, Decision Support, Data Warehousing, OLAP, Data Mining, Applications in Higher education.
1. Introduction
Higher education institutions are interested in predicting the paths of students and alumni, thus identifying which students will join particular course programs and which students will require a large number of debates. Today, one of the biggest challenges that educational institutions face is the explosive growth of educational data and to use this data to improve the quality of managerial decisions. Data mining techniques are analytical tools that can be used to extract meaningful knowledge from these large data sets. To face these challenges different systems are used such as ERP, DWH etc.
1.1 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)
Enterprise resource planning (ERP) integrates internal and external management information of an entire organization like finance/accounting information, manufacturing, sales, service information and most important its customer relationship management. ERP systems automate all these activities to facilitate the flow of information between all business functions inside the boundaries of the organization and manage the connections to outside world [1]. ERP systems operate in real time i.e. without relying on periodic updates [2, 3] along with common database, which supports all applications. ERP plays a crucial role in decision making for businessmen to get quick decisions with fewer errors.
ERP opened new horizons in almost all sectors. In this paper, we are mainly concerned about educational sector. Education is one of India's prime Industries today. Its size is more than domestic software industry or automobile industry. Due to exponential growth of educational sector, educational institutes have now become complex organizations. They...