Service News Category: Reports and Analytics

  • 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 critical subject areas (Student/Academic, Human Resources, Financial, Research Administration) which enables informed decision-making.  Knowledge Navigator Why is Knowledge Navigator being redesigned?  Since 2015, when Knowledge…

  • 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 around UW data. New terms added 45 UW Workday Terms 7 Finance Terms 5 Research Terms 1 Academic Term New structured objects or reports or…

  • 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 the first academic data-related SQL function, URM (Underrepresented Minority) Status, to help you reduce business logic maintenance, improve code readability, and keep one version of…

  • 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 easier to maintain, and making it more intuitive for finance users at all levels.  Why was the UW GL Cube redesigned? To attain increased cost…

  • 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 the following information and more: Status of courses Times, days, or locations of courses Instructors for all courses Section types (Lecture; Lab; Quiz; etc.) Learning…

  • 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 around UW data. New terms added 13 UW Workday Terms 5 Academic Terms New structured objects or reports added 1 Enterprise Report 2 Enterprise Dashboards…

  • 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 the schema, making it easier to maintain, and making it more intuitive for finance users at all levels. The current Financial Activity Cube will no…

  • A consolidated, redesigned BI Portal launched on June 27

    July 20, 2022

    With a new interface and backend code base, UW-IT Information Management’s Enterprise Reporting and Analytics team has concluded over two years of work to consolidate and redesign two separate portals — BI Portal and UW Profiles. The main objectives of consolidating these two portals were to improve the customer experience and reduce the overall cost of running two separate infrastructures. The new BI Portal user experience enhancements include: Improved search capability Logical grouping of BI products (reports, cubes, dashboard) by…

  • Knowledge Navigator Metadata Update Spring Qtr 2022

    July 13, 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 around UW data. New terms added 16 UW Workday Terms 9 Research Terms 7 Academic Terms New structured objects or reports added 17 Enterprise Dashboards…

  • New BI Portal is LIVE

    June 28, 2022

    Team successfully released the new BI Portal v2 on Monday 6/27. What’s new? New Interface: The BI Portal has a new look but the content is the same, including all the items you had in your “Favorites.”* UW Profiles is now inside the BI Portal: You can navigate to the original dashboards via the Browse by Tags section (shown below) on the home page, then clicking the UW Profiles tile. Where we started In 2013, the BI (Business Intelligence) Portal…