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2. Enterprise Reporting & Business Intelligence: A Practical Solution Utilizing Data Warehousing Firepower And Cognos 8 Refinement EDUCAUSE 2007 Mid-Atlantic Regional Conference Steve Brandt, Dickinson College

3. Dickinson’s ERP Environment Sungard HE Banner was implemented in 2005 Banner Modules: Finance, Financial Aid, Accounts Receivable, Advancement, Student, HR/Payroll Recruitment Plus: Admissions Adirondack: Residential Life

4. Dickinson’s Reporting & BI Goals To support fact-based decision making based on enterprise-wide information Timely & consistent data Ease of use Features Robustness Ability to source from Oracle Seamless integration between varying delivery methods

5. Dickinson’s Architecture Transaction Data Warehouse Reporting Environment Local PC Object Access Views Custom Views Banner PROD Base Tables Advancement Student Finance HR / Payroll Financial Aid PRODODS Materialized Object Access Views Materialized Custom Views Cognos Queries Standard, Managed Reports PowerCubes Scorecards Local PC HTML docs PDFs Spreadsheets CSV files Recruitment Plus Admissions Adirondack Residential Life

6. The Reporting Pyramid Transactional Tactical Strategic Information Need Delivery Method QueriesReportsCubesScorecards

7. Advantages of Dickinson Architecture Insulation of Production Transactional System Improved Reporting Performance - Tables Built for Reporting - Dedicated Oracle Instance & Server Stable Data for Analysis

8. Cognos 8BI Home Page

9. Student Module Sub-Folder

10. Query Studio Example

11. Report Studio Example

14. Analysis Studio Example

15. Outcome Many reports, a handful of cubes have been built. Currently building our first scorecard. User Satisfaction: - Transactional Users - Tactical Users - Strategic Users Maintainability through consistent architecture.