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Virginia Tech is…. located in Blacksburg, VA the largest in the commonwealth -- 8 colleges and graduate school -- 60 bachelor’s degree programs -- 110 master’s and doctoral degree programs -- 25,000+ students among the Top 50 research institutions in the US. IWA Mission….
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Virginia Tech is… • located in Blacksburg, VA • the largest in the commonwealth -- 8 colleges and graduate school -- 60 bachelor’s degree programs -- 110 master’s and doctoral degree programs -- 25,000+ students • among the Top 50 research institutions in the US
IWA Mission… • develop and maintain the Data Warehouse • provide a Metadata Repository -- technical descriptions -- business definitions -- helps users understand the data • deliver user training for the Warehouse
IWA Team consists of… • 1 Project Leader • 4 Data Warehouse Architects • 1 Oracle Data Base Administrator • 3 Applications Analysts • 1 Brio Administrator • 1 Training and Metadata Coordinator
Building a Data Mart… • Begins with a Project Agreement • Map out from Data Source to Target Tables • Develop the Extraction-Transformation-Loading (Data Stage) and Quality Checking Processes • Develop Business Definitions and Data Models • Verify the Data
Metadata Application… • Displays complete Business Definitions -- Table and Views -- Columns (alphabetical order) • Web-based -- Allows for remote updating -- Dynamically-created pages– always current information • Data Models available as well
Query-Analysis Tool Requirements • Web-accessible • Graphical user interface • Ad-hoc query capability • Considered many, chose Brio.Insight
Brio Training… • Tool Training -- two 4-hour sessions -- developed our own training materials -- used the Sample database • Data Training -- data warehouse concepts -- data models and metadata -- 3-4 simple Brio queries -- Finance, HR, Position Control, Payroll, Accounts Receivable
Security… • Data Warehouse -- controlled by the database, not the query tool -- uses object and row-level security defined in the enterprise system -- enforces row-level and data-value security through Oracle views • Brio On-Demand Server -- data models available by subject area -- users can modify existing data models
Executive Dashboard… • Pivot Reports -- Finance, HR, Position Control -- provides summary, drill-down capability • Dashboard “hides” the queries and results • Brio.Insight provides “anywhere access”
Questions?… Contact Information: Alan Moeller– moellera@vt.edu 540-231-1790 Georgiy Kolomiyets– georgiy@vt.edu 540-231-9178