Virginia Tech is… located in Blacksburg, VA the largest in the commonwealth -- 8 colleges and graduate school bachelor’s degree programs master’s and doctoral degree programs -- 25,000+ students among the Top 50 research institutions in the US

IWA Mission… develop and maintain the Data Warehouse provide a Metadata Repository -- technical descriptions -- business definitions -- helps users understand the data deliver user training for the Warehouse

IWA Team consists of… 1 Project Leader 4 Data Warehouse Architects 1 Oracle Data Base Administrator 3 Applications Analysts 1 Brio Administrator 1 Training and Metadata Coordinator

Building a Data Mart… Begins with a Project Agreement Map out from Data Source to Target Tables Develop the Extraction-Transformation-Loading (Data Stage) and Quality Checking Processes Develop Business Definitions and Data Models Verify the Data

Metadata Application… Displays complete Business Definitions -- Table and Views -- Columns (alphabetical order) Web-based -- Allows for remote updating -- Dynamically-created pages– always current information Data Models available as well

Query-Analysis Tool Requirements Web-accessible Graphical user interface Ad-hoc query capability Considered many, chose Brio.Insight

Brio Training… Tool Training -- two 4-hour sessions -- developed our own training materials -- used the Sample database Data Training -- data warehouse concepts -- data models and metadata simple Brio queries -- Finance, HR, Position Control, Payroll, Accounts Receivable

Security… Data Warehouse -- controlled by the database, not the query tool -- uses object and row-level security defined in the enterprise system -- enforces row-level and data-value security through Oracle views Brio On-Demand Server -- data models available by subject area -- users can modify existing data models

Executive Dashboard… Pivot Reports -- Finance, HR, Position Control -- provides summary, drill-down capability Dashboard “hides” the queries and results Brio.Insight provides “anywhere access”

Questions?… Contact Information: Alan Moeller– Georgiy Kolomiyets–