Warehouse Functionality without a Functioning Warehouse

Presentation Summary

Wayne Mircoff, Georgetown University

For many years, without an EDW, GU-Finance has been using primitive PC-based tools and developed novel applications to report on tens of millions of rows of data. We are in the unusual position of being extremely familiar with our data, its interrelationships and reporting needs, but we’re on unfamiliar ground with developing a Finance data-warehouse. This presentation will encompass two areas: An overview of GU-Finance’s current reporting tools; An overview of a phased plan to rebuild all of this functionality in a centrally supported (Cognos) warehouse environment in conjunction with the implementation of a new financial system I hope to be able to share our experience in template development and customer engagement while gaining real-time feedback to our phased plan.