Overview of Data Warehouse Proposal

1. Data Warehouse Introduction/Proposal
A Data Warehouse is:
Subject oriented
Integrated
Time-variant
Nonvolatile collection of data
Used in support of management decisions.
Inmon, W.H. Building the Data Warehouse. 1993.
Rivier College
Information Technology
Wednesday, February 14, 2018

2. Data Warehouse Relevancy To Hi
Ed
• Few institutions have all of the major institutional
data areas available
• Most start with either student data, human resources,
or finance data
• Goal is to evolve toward a comprehensive set of
standard data elements and repeatable reports
*Source: EDUCAUSE 2003 Survey

3. Rivier Data Warehousing
Challenges
• Data Collection
– Data is locked in different systems
– Manual processes required to extract available data
• Reporting
– Administrators scramble to pull data from different sources
– Work is tedious, time-consuming and driven by deadlines
• Analysis
– Lack of standard process or identification of data needed
– Data analysis is basic and non-conclusive
• Information Distribution
– Information is manually updated and sometimes duplicated
– Much of the information and results are not consistent or
traceable

4. Goals…..
• Improvement in long term planning through timely,
accurate report delivery
• Standardized, repeatable process to move data from CAMS
and eventually other systems to Data Warehouse
• Ability to move information into Data Warehouse multiple
times per term using Term Id + Sequence Identifier
• An improvement in proactive decision making through
access to higher quality, readily available data
• Standardized Crystal Reports using data sources all from
the specified period so that numbers do not change
• Timing: Test run end of SU08, Production end of FA08

5. 3
Create
Reports
Data warehouse Information Flow
ELEMENTS OF THE PROCESS
Data
Warehouse
2
SQL Server
Data
Warehouse
Populate
Data Warehouse
1
Source
Systems (CAMS,
PowerFaids, Great
Plains)
Design the
Data Warehouse
Query
Data
Users
•Crystal
•Reports
•Analysis
•Data Mining
•Dashboards
4
Gathering and
Update Procedures
All data
Identified by
term and
sequence
Process can be run
infinite times
within a term

6. Next Steps…..
• Identify CAMS TABLES to be included/copied/frozen in
Data Warehouse process
• Build processes to move the identified tables and add Term
and Sequence Identifiers to all tables
• Develop/Modify Crystal Reports and dashboards to point
to Data Warehouse
• Staff Education/Documentation

7. Questions…..
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