Shedding light on our information

A data warehouse is a system that
• Gathers data from many systems
• Combines it into one database
• Conforms it to common standards
• Restructures it for easy
– Exploration
– Reporting
– Data mining

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Recruitment
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Spreadsheets
Survey Data
Data
Warehouse
Excel Report
SPSS
Cognos BI
Access

Data warehousing implementation projects break down into a set of basic components that are common across nearly all deployments in all institutions

Major project components:
• Project kickoff and planning
• Initial business requirements analysis
• Decide on first project
• Purchase and installation of back-end technologies
• Development of ongoing data catalog, data policy
• Modeling of initial data marts
• Development of initial ETL processes
• Development of initial reports
• Delivery of initial data marts, reports, documentation
• Training

Data Warehouse Service
– Project 1, includes DW infrastructure
– Project 2
– Project 3
– Enhancements to Project 1
– Project 4

Fields: data name, category, source, source table, source column, DW table, DW column, description, data stewards, access restrictions, update frequency, Meaning/Usage, data type, data range.

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DW Data Management
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Administrative Computing
Advisory
Committee
TPPC
Existing User Groups

Next Steps
• We will schedule interviews with you over the next few weeks
• We will send you sample interview questions ahead of time
• We might also ask you for sample reports
• We will take the information you give us, combine it with information from other offices, and form a master ‘Needs
Analysis’ document.

Ha! Now they’ll have to add a
“planet” field to the data catalog!