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UDEW Concept Map – K. DeMonte
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Karen A. DeMonte – Instructional Design Concept Map
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UDEWit
University of Delaware Enterprise Warehouse (website designed to complement Cognos Curriculum)
I.
UD Computing Environment
Beginning in 1998, the University of Delaware began converting its administrative computing systems from a centrally
managed mainframe based legacy system to PeopleSoft, a distributed client server based system.
A.
PeopleSoft Environment
PeopleSoft, like other online transaction processing (OLTP) systems is not suitable for reporting and decision support;
different kinds of data tend to be scattered in different tables.
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Data Elements
a.
B.
Student, Financial, and HR Systems
UD Reporting Needs
Reporting is no longer an IT function. Instead it is distributed across various university functional units.
C.
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FERPA
2.
Business requirements
IT Support
IT no longer knows the data or the tools; departments have to be self-sufficient.
II.
Data Warehouse
A collection of data from many systems brought together to support the needs of management. A data warehouse consists
of fact and dimension tables that are logically joined together in what is known as a star schema.
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Star Schema
1.
Facts
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B.
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Dimensions
Metadata Model
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Report Package
III. Business Intelligence
A.
Enterprise Reporting
A process that involves querying data sources with different logical data models to produce an understandable report.
1.
Process
a.
Management knowledge
Knowledge management combines information with individual, group, and organizational experience and
judgment. It involves making a leap from understanding patterns to guiding action (Serban & Luan, 2002).
Business intelligence tools bring it together by leveraging both internal and external information assets to
support decision making activities.
(1)
Accuracy
b. BI Tool
(1) Cognos
The university's web-based reporting tool for the user community to easily develop and run reports against
the University of Delaware Enterprise Warehouse (UDEW)
(a)
Queries
i)
Crosstab Reports
ii)
List Reports
iii)
Report Specifications
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IV. Concept Attainment
A.
Define Report
B.
Define Data Elements
C.
Select Report Package
D.
Analyze Results
E.
Share Results
F.
Evaluate Process
o Performance Tasks
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Exercise #1: Based on a copy of a list report that had been available in the legacy system, participants re-write
the report using Cognos Report Studio and UDEW. Participants will also analyze the results of their report
output with that of the original report. Note: Report results may vary slightly due to conversion issues.
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Exercise #2: Participants develop a reporting request specific to their area, write the specification for the report,
create the report using Cognos Report Studio and UDEW, analyze the results, schedule the report to run, and email the results to the instructor using Cognos Connection.
EDUC639: Learning Technologies Across the Curriculum
11/30/2008