Business Intelligence Architects receive award from the USDA
Rural Development Single Family Direct Loan Program for Hyperion
(formerly BRIO) report development
Boston, MA, December 17, 2003
KeyPulse Business Intelligence Architects Wayne Van Sluys and Andrew Shamburger recently received special
recognition and appreciation from the USDA Rural Development Single Family Direct Loan Program for a suite
of executive dashboards they developed using Hyperion (formerly BRIO)Intelligence software.
The mission of the USDA Rural Development Single Family Direct Loan Program is to improve the economy and
quality of life in rural America. It administers a US $80B loan portfolio, which includes loans for rural
single-family housing, multi-family housing, business, and industry, water and environmental protection,
and rural utilities. The organization was charged with meeting a Presidential goal to increase minority
homeownership in rural America, and to provide concise and accurate progress reports on the progress
towards meeting the goal.
The USDA Rural Development team looked to KeyPulse to help them create a way to uncover and leverage
multiple, disparate sources of information into meaningful reports. Van Sluys and Shamburger developed
executive dashboards and management reports that consolidated information from multiple sources to aid in
the administration of the Rural Development loan programs.
Executive dashboards show the big picture; they’re snapshots of information with links to more detailed
reports. USDA Rural Development’s executive dashboards enable decision makers to analyze trends of loans
made. The underlying reports that KeyPulse developed aggregate demographic home ownership information from
county, state, and national levels in order to compare it to census data. This information then helps the
USDA to determine which areas need increased attention.
In the past, this intelligence involved intensive manual intervention. Through the use of a data warehouse
and Hyperion Intelligence the process is much more streamlined and timely, thus enabling the USDA Rural
Development team to meet their goal accurately and expediently.
"The use of Hyperion Intelligence allows the field offices to monitor their own performance in meeting loan
origination goals. This is the first time online tracking reports were available to the field offices on a
daily basis. Previous demographic reports took one to two months to compile, print, and disseminate after
close of a month," said Michael S. Feinberg, Branch Chief, Single Family Housing Direct Loan Division, USDA
Rural Development.
Wayne Van Sluys and Andrew Shamburger are Senior Business Intelligence Architects at KeyPulse.com, Inc. with
many years of consulting to Fortune 100 companies.
"This was a demanding project and we’re proud to have an opportunity to further such an important cause,"
commented Van Sluys.
Shamburger added, "It was a great honor not only to be a contributor to this Presidential initiative, but
also to be recognized for those efforts."
