The Data Warehouse Project

Administrative Computing & Information Services

Carnegie Mellon University

The Data Warehouse Vision

Carnegie Mellons Data Warehouse will empower
staff, faculty, and students by providing a secure,
well-organized, easily interfaced, and universal
point of access to authorized data resources. The
Data Warehouse will facilitate business
intelligence by integrating previously disparate,
inaccessible, and unorganized data stores,
leveraging a variety of reporting and analysis
tools, and promoting sharing among users.

Purposes
Query
Reporting
Analysis
Data Extraction

Approach
Evolutionary
Controlled
Opportunistic
Iterative

Targeted Data
Student
Financial
Personnel
Alumni
Directory

Features and Functions

Certified reports/queries
Contributed reports/queries
Ad hoc query
Data extraction
Optimized for query performance
Inherited access rights from source systems
Regular refresh from source systems

Accessing the Data Warehouse

ACIS will provide user support for specified
tools. The currently supported tool is

Oracle Discoverer:

Desktop & web clients

Canned reports
Ad hoc query
Data extraction
Retained and shared queries
Security layers
Data dictionary

Project Timeline
Phase I Proof of Concept (Complete)
Establish Technical Infrastructure
Prototype Data Extraction/Transformation/Load
Prototype Financial Analysis & Reporting
Phase II Controlled Release (In Process)
Current Financial Data (Oracle Apps)
Legacy Financial Data (FRIS & PEP History)
Salary Inquiry and BDI Extract (DRIVE)
Student Data (QSIS )
Virtual LDAP
Phase III General Availability

Next Steps
Evaluate Discoverers web client
Convene pilot user group
Develop user administration procedures
Perform security and data audits
Develop Salary Inquiry & BDI extract
Launch targeted marketing and training

efforts

Technical Specification
Database:
Hardware:

Oracle Version 9i
Sun Enterprise Server 4500
8 CPU
8 GB RAM

Operating

System:

Solaris 2.8

The Project Team

Project Sponsors

Len Brush
Martha Baron
Mary Ann Blair

Project Director

Joyce Moore

Database Admin

Massimo Bigliardo
Thang Vu

The Project Team

Functional Team

Tech Team

Financials
Alison Campbell
Liz Cooke
Beth Meiser
Steven Selig
Linda Schmidt
Deanne Weaver
Bob Gabert
Krishna Kumar
Joyce Moore
Bob Rittiger
Thang Vu

The Project Team

Functional Team
Tech Team

DRIVE
Linda Schmidt
Dave Burzese
Bob Gabert
Joyce Moore

The Project Team

CFOs Office

Additional Resources
Beth Meiser

Planning Office

Stacey Lopez
Linda Schmidt

HR/Training

Len Stellitano

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