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Report Manager Software. Tyler Nelson (UT) and George Putnam (IL) 2014 LMI Forum Pittsburgh, PA June 2014. Report Manager Software: Overview. Original specifications Training Resources What can you do in Report Manager? Practicum Impediments to use Report Manager: survey results
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Report Manager Software Tyler Nelson (UT) and George Putnam (IL) 2014 LMI ForumPittsburgh, PAJune 2014
Report Manager Software:Overview • Original specifications • Training Resources • What can you do in Report Manager? • Practicum • Impediments to use Report Manager: survey results • Proposals to resolve impediments • Practicum • Discussion
Report Manager Software:Original Specifications • Import and manipulate unique skill directories • Import and manipulate unique occupation and industry codes (non-SOC green occupations, non-NAICS fracking industry) • Data retention to reproduce prior reports based on dated specifications • Import and manipulate non-projections related data series(vacancies, UI claims)
Training Resources • Accessing Report Managerhttp://wiki.projectionscentral.com/Default.aspx?Page=Accessing-Report-Manager&NS=&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 • Report Manger Forumhttp://dev.projectionscentral.com/reportmanager/forum.asp • Report Manager LISTSERVhttp://smtp.dws.utah.gov/cgi-bin/wa.exe?OWNER=REPORTMANAGER • Report Manager Overview Webinar Series (contains Overview webinar, Software Demo webinar and Best Practices/Conclusion webinar for each aspect of each area (Data, Analysis, Projections, Reports) of Report Manager (56 links)) (requires account)http://www.projectionstraining.com/course/view.php?id=6 • Quick Start Guidehttp://dev.projectionscentral.com/downloads/Quickstart.pdf • Report Manager Quick-Start Guide Webinar (requires account)http://www.projectionstraining.com/course/view.php?id=10 • Creating Skills-Based Output Webinar (requires account)http://www.projectionstraining.com/course/view.php?id=10
Application:What can you do in Report Manager? • Create Indexes • Purpose: to summarize multiple data series with a single data series based on user-selected weighting • Create Descriptors • Purpose: to aggregate the observations or data values of a single series into categories • Create Projections • Purpose: to aggregate industry or occupation projections by descriptor or O*NET categories • Create Reports • Purpose: to layer and nest data series by dimensions of information with ease of pivot table environment
Application:Report Manager Practicum • Site: rptmgrbeta.projectionscentral.com • User: testuser 1 or 2 @ state abbreviation.gov (e.g. testuser1@ut.gov) • Password: RptMgrPwd
Application: Impediments Identified on Survey • Difficulty to use Report Manager • Guidelines or “quick tips” needed • Steep learning curve • Consider advantage of canned reports • Methodological Issues • Prolonged database processing time • Directory availability and maintenance of deleted data • SOC vs O*NET codes don’t match • Manual assignment very time consuming • Want to customize level and importance cutoff • “All Other” occupations don’t have O*NET designations • Excluded from skills-based projections
Application: Impediments Identified on Survey • Results from Report Manager not in demand • Information is not new • Employers/training providers need more specific information • Post example outcome reports on training website • Augment Capability in Report Manager • Skills gap analysis • Inclusive of unemployed • Align education requirements with skills demand
Impediment:Difficulty to use Report Manager • Options • Develop streamlined parallel system address impediments • Limitation 1: In a sense takes you out of the system, Does nothing to promote learning curve • Limitation 2: maintain multiple software • Add wizards • Limitation 1: more integrated with system but still has limited value-added to promote learning curve for system • Limitation 2: assumes no flexibility is a good thing because role of wizard is the end product, process is secondary to end product
Impediment:Difficulty to use Report Manager • Challenges • Maintain the integrity of a single software • Maintain the integrity of the learning curve • Proposal • Embed automation of step-by-step guide in RM software • consistency between narrative description and automation • Learning on screen with goal of truncating the learning curve
Automated Step-by-Step Guide • Create Descriptors • Create Projections • Create Indexes
Impediment:Methodological Issues • Database processing time • Proposal • Limit availability of directories • Limit availability of deleted data • Standardize matching of SOC to O*NET in Report Manager as best practice • Proposal • Establish best practice for non-residual occupations • How to handle residual occupations?
Impediment:Results from Report Manager not in demand • “Skills-Based Employment Information: How to Move from Idea to Product” • Value of skills-based data in shaping workforce, economic development and education system planning
Impediment:Augment Capability in Report Manager • Automate Step-by-Step Guide for Create Reports • Skills gap analysis • Inclusive of unemployed • Align education requirements with skills demand