The November 22 edition of University Business includes the following article highlighting how improvements in business intelligence (BI) tools have given higher education leaders more data power for decision making. The article notes that Florida State moved from third-party legacy BI tools to Oracle BI Suite Enterprise Edition Plus last year to standardize on one platform. The article includes comment from Selim Burduroglu, industry architect, Oracle Education & Research, who suggests three core principles for successful BI in higher education - start simple and evolve, minimize variables and link insight to action to provide continuous institutional effectiveness.