Faculty of Department of 1 Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment Department of Mechanical Engineering ITS VIEWS DATA WAREHOUSE Directorate: Strategic Management Support
Faculty of Department of 2 WHAT IS A DATA WAREHOUSE? A Data Warehouse (DW) is a database used for reporting and data analysis. It is a central repository of data which is created by integrating data from one or more different sources. Directorate: Strategic Management Support
Faculty of Department of 3 GENERAL REPORTING CHALLENGES Most of the data is stored in ITS, which is difficult for end-users to access The data stores were designed for transaction processing not reporting Obtaining the data or a report usually requires waiting for a programmer to develop the report End-users do not have the knowledge of what is kept in the existing data stores. Directorate: Strategic Management Support
Faculty of Department of 4 ADVANTAGES OF THE ITS VIEWS DATA WAREHOUSE Operational tables and views are linked in the back-end, and presented on the front-end in a way that makes sense to the user Improved and timely end-user access to a wide variety of University data Providing a platform to combine related data from separate sources Increased Query and System Performance Enhanced Business Intelligence Directorate: Strategic Management Support
Faculty of Department of 5 DATA CURRENTLY INCLUDED Student applications Student bursaries Enrolment quotas Student qualification enrolments Student subject registrations Student graduations Student residence Staff service records General ledger: transactions and commitments Directorate: Strategic Management Support
Faculty of Department of 6 Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment Department of Mechanical Engineering THANK YOU Directorate: Strategic Management Support