Service News Category: Reports and Analytics

  • Reimagining Reporting: The BI Portal and Workday Finance

    June 28, 2023

    To support UW Finance Transformation and the implementation of Workday Finance, the BI Portal report has expanded to include Workday Finance and My Financial Desktop (MyFD) reports, providing a one-stop shop for users across the UW Academy. These updates deployed to the BI Portal on 7/18/23. Setting the Stage: The New UW Reporting Landscape Workday…

  • Knowledge Navigator: Winter Quarter 2023 Metadata Update

    April 24, 2023

    UW Metadata Manager, Keith A. Van Eaton, from Information Management’s Enterprise Reporting & Analytics team, has added or updated metadata objects in Knowledge Navigator. In their ongoing partnership, the UW’s data domain stewards, subject matter experts, and metadata manager ensure metadata objects are vetted and approved so that UW data users have a common understanding…

  • Redesigned Knowledge Navigator launches with enhancements

    February 16, 2023

    UW-IT’s Information Management team members, in collaboration with the Program Management Office, successfully launched the redesigned Knowledge Navigator (KN) application. Over the course of the past six months, development, interface refinement, testing and debugging have resulted in backend efficiencies and a streamlined experience for users.  Redesign launch and enhancements Knowledge Navigator’s redesign launched on Feb….

  • Knowledge Navigator gets a refresh, modernizes for information and business excellence

    January 23, 2023

    — Data freeze starting Feb 6 —  What is Knowledge Navigator?  Knowledge Navigator (KN) is the University of Washington’s web-based application that displays business terms, their definitions, and data relationships used by everyone at UW. KN provides context to data used across the University and is UW’s one source for finding and understanding information across…

  • Knowledge Navigator: Autumn Quarter 2022 Metadata Update

    January 12, 2023

    UW Metadata Manager, Keith A. Van Eaton, from Information Management’s Enterprise Reporting & Analytics team, has added or updated metadata objects in Knowledge Navigator. In their ongoing partnership, the UW’s data domain stewards, subject matter experts, and metadata manager ensure metadata objects are vetted and approved so that UW data users have a common understanding…

  • How To: URM Status SQL Function in the EDW

    November 6, 2022

    Do you get tired of maintaining the same business logic in many data products and spending too much time updating the logic in all those products? Are you looking for one version of the truth across all your academic reports, data cubes, and dashboards? The BI Team has great news for you. The EDW supports…

  • UW GL Cube undergoes redesign

    October 10, 2022

    We’re happy to announce the release of the newly redesigned UW GL (General Ledger) Cube. Kicked off in February 2021, the project is now completed and ready for use. Thanks to all the hard work of our developers from the DATAGroup and UW-IT ERA (Enterprise Reporting and Analytics), we updated the cube’s schema, making it…

  • RPG New Dashboard Release: Time Schedule Course Enrollment Trends and Details

    October 7, 2022

    The Enterprise Reporting and Analytics team with the collaboration of the Report Prioritization Group released the newest addition to the BI Portal: Time Schedule Course Enrollment Trends What is the Time Schedule? The UW Time Schedule application lists credit classes offered at the University of Washington. The UW Time Schedule is updated daily and includes…

  • Knowledge Navigator: Summer Quarter 2022 Metadata Update

    October 4, 2022

    UW Metadata Manager, Keith A. Van Eaton, from Information Management’s Enterprise Reporting & Analytics team, has added or updated metadata objects in Knowledge Navigator. In their ongoing partnership, the UW’s data domain stewards, subject matter experts, and metadata manager ensure metadata objects are vetted and approved so that UW data users have a common understanding…

  • UW Finance Cube undergoes redesign

    July 29, 2022

    We’re happy to announce the release of the newly redesigned UW Finance Cube, formerly known as the Financial Activity Cube. Kicked off in August 2021, the project is now completed and ready for use. Developers and testers across UWFT (UW Finance Transformation) and UW-IT ERA (Enterprise Reporting and Analytics) collaborated closely with users to update…