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Data Warehousing:
Changing Campus Culture
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Rensselaer Polytechnic
Institute (RPI)
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O “We are the first degree granting technological
university in the English-speaking world”
O Research University with programs in Architecture,
Arts, Engineering, Humanities, Science, and
Social Sciences Rensselaer enrolls over 7,500
undergraduates, graduate, and working
professionals.
Over 450 Rensselaer faculty members include
National Science Foundation Presidential Faculty
Fellows, members of the National Academy of
Engineering, the National Academy of Sciences, and
other eminent professional organizations.
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Fundamental Problem
Operational systems are not designed
for information retrieval and
analytical processing
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History of DW at Rensselaer
Fall 1998- Summer 2001: Looking for solution
Fall 2001: Budgets are approved
Fall 2001 - Jan 2002: Building infrastructure
Jan 2002 - today: Delivering Enterprise Wide Warehouse
with the following areas:
Finance
Positions
Human Resources
Student Enrollment
Admissions
Graduate Financial Aid
Undergraduate Financial Aid
Research (pre award, post award)
Institute Advancement (in progress)
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Data Warehouse group
O Part of the Administrative Computing within
the Division of Chief Information Office
O Total of eight employees
O Responsible for addressing campus
reporting and analytical needs
O http://www.rpi.edu/datawarehouse
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Our constituency
Administrative leadership: President, VP of Finance, VP of
Student Life, Provost, Dean for Graduate Admissions, Controller,
Registrar, Dean of Enrollment, VP of Research, AVP of Budgets, etc.
Academic leadership: Deans and Department Chairpersons,
Research Center Directors
Core Administration: /nstitutional Researcher, Director of Budgets,
Director of Enrollment, Registrar, Director of Research Administration,
etc.
Core Administration Personal: responsible for carrying out
centralized functions such as registration, admissions, payroll, etc.
Campus Administrative Personal - Graduate Coordinator's
Assistant, Business managers across campus, Coaches, etc.
Faculty
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Viewpoint
Regardless of how well designed our star
schemas are or how well the dimensions
are conformed, to be effective in
addressing campus decision support and
analytical needs the Data Warehouse
should be viewed as a service
addressing information quality and
campus culture
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Viewpoint
The true benefits can be achieved only
when the new technology is adapted
and becomes part of our business
routine:
O Penetration takes time
O Brings transformational changes to
Processes and Culture
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Successful Data Warehouse
implementation
O Clear set of Goals and Objectives
O Sponsorship
O Budgeted
O Dedicated staff
O Strong alliance between IT and Business
O Implemented as a Service
O Proved implementation methodology
O Addresses Information Quality
O Serve as a catalyst for change
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The Fundamental Goal
The fundamental goal of the Rensselaer
Data Warehouse Initiative is to
integrate administrative data into a
consistent information resource
that supports planning,
forecasting, and decision-making
processes at Rensselaer.
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Data Warehouse Objectives
Serve as an information hub for Administration
as well as the Academic Schools
Transform Data into Information with
embedded business definitions
Informative - Meta Data
Intuitive for end user to perform ad-hoc
queries and analysis
Adequate response time - Retrieved within
seconds
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Business Sponsorship
Lack of Business Sponsorship
Prototype
™@ Shop around and identify area where it ‘hurts’
™ Build a prototype and invite vendors to participate
™ Market to the business side
Engage and build awareness
™ Facilitate a visit to the peer institution
™ Invite peer institution to your campus
Be aware of offering temporary solutions
™ Costly in a long run
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Wait for leadership to change
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Lack of IT Sponsorship
Typical reasons are: Lacking knowledge and/or
expertise, Do not have necessary resources;
Not enough demand or pressure from the top
Possible steps:
Secure funding
Bring in outside help with knowledge transfer
Build Prototype as a joint venture
Engage and Build awareness
Emphasize partnership
Engage Leadership (Business Sponsor) in
setting IT priorities
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Budget
Budget is the true indication of sponsorship support and
priority
Hardware and software for Production, Test, and Training
environment
Data base servers
Data base licenses
ETL
Front-end
Personnel
Education and travel
Consulting services
Contingency
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Dedicated Staff
Need dedicated personnel to carry out the
following functions
۲ Project Manager/Champion
DBA
Modeler
ETL developers
Front end developers
Software administration and installation
Desktop support
Customer support
Campus training
Business staff and Power user
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Alignment between the IT and the
Business in DW implementation
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Information
Quality
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Information Quality
Accurate, Reliable, Consistent,
Relevant
O Re-enforce common definitions
O Set up processes to identify and clean
erroneous data
O Set up processes to gather relevant data
O Define policies on who will have access
to what information
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Culture
The goal is to build analytical
culture that values and
promotes usage of information
in decision making
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Culture
O Promotes fact based decisions where
value is placed on decisions made
through usage of information vs. supply
of data
O Lowers the walls across organizational
boundaries and promotes understanding
of the business enterprise across
different functional areas
O Analytical culture requires different set
of skills
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Our Approach
The approach to addressing campus informational
needs can not be:
O A Project
O A Product
ST Serve
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Implementing Data Warehouse
O Build Technical Architecture
O Establish Services in support of campus
community
O Build Processes ensuring Data Quality
O Work with campus Leadership on
addressing campus analytical culture
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Methodology
Addresses long term solution
Enterprise wide integrated data warehouse vs.
Departmental data mart
Use methodology with proven success i.e. learn from
others
Overall long term planning with short time to delivery
Has to include all aspects of DW implementation
™ Architecture addressing transformations, meta data,
security, delivery
Campus rollout and training
Information Quality
Communication
Support
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Implementation Methodology
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Technical Architecture
* operational + extraction “central repository “user-facing * business
systems + transformatior + subject-based data ma pplications intelligence
* transactional * modeling *Conformed dimensions * decision-
systems * loading + metadata support
4 + OLAP
* querying
* reporting
Web Client
Interfaces
Desktop
Interfaces
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Building DW Foundation -
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O ERP - Banner from SCT 95
O ETL - Power Center from Informatica
O Data Base - Oracle 9i
O Models - Star schemas with conformed
dimensions
O Web Front end tools - Hyperion
Performance Management (Brio), Dash
Boards
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Building DW Foundation -
Data Security, Privacy and Access Policy
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O Can be defined as striking the “right” balance between
data security/privacy and data access
O Value of data is increased through widespread access
and appropriate use, however, value is severely
compromised by misinterpretation, misuse, or abuse
Key oversight principle: لآ
Cabinet members, as individuals, are responsible for
overseeing establishment of data management policies,
procedures, and accountability for data governed within
their portfolio(s), subject to cabinet review and CIO
approval
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Building Subject Oriented Data Marts
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Identify information gaps
۲ |dentify erroneous data
۲ Reinforce common definitions
™ Establish processes to identify
and clean erroneous data
™ Establish processes to capture
missing data
Develop and approve Data
Security Policy
Record Meta Data - stored in
Informatica repository and
accessed with Brio
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Forming Implementation
Group
Conducting interviews
Defining Scope and
Timelines
Modeling
Extracting, Transforming,
and Loading Data
Develop Security system
Testing
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Catalyst of Change
O Requires marketing and PR
O Communications
O Cheerleading
O Support at the Executive levels
O Lead by individual respected by all
O Offering campus training programs
O “Carrots and sticks”
O Re-examine existing processes: (month-
end reporting)
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Rollout
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Recognizing Barriers
O People’s resistance to a new tool
O Expectations on information availability
and usability for decision making are low
O Habit of relying on Central Administration
to provide information, or on their own
sources (many versions of the ‘truth’)
O People will need to acquire new job skills
O Job expectations will need to change
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Developing Common Vision
O One version of the truth -
Warehoused Information was recognized
as the only official source of data
O Data Experts across campus and Xs
across organizational boundaries
O Partnering with Human Resources -
The DW training was included in Performance
Evaluations and Job Descriptions
O Training is mandatory at all levels
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Communication and Buy-i
O Executive briefings:
™ Emphasized changes in analytical culture
۲ Recognized Barriers
™ Emphasized that top down approach is needed and ask
for commitment
™ Demonstrated new capabilities via Dash Boards
™ Demonstrated ad-hoc capabilities people within their
organization have
O Campus orientations
™ Demonstrated analytical capabilities
™ Introduced training programs and the rollout strategy
™ Communicated Data Policies
O Wed site
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Data Warehouse Cascaded Rollout Strategy
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Data Mart Release to the Core
Administration
O Utilizing Data Mart for internal operations
O More changes to the Data Mart are expected
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O Establishing data cleanups queries and procedures
O Preparing for Campus release: Ss
۲ Developing campus training program:
Developing and publishing Dash Boards, and Brio
dynamic documents
® Developing operational training
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Initial Tiered Access - Who
will have access to what
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Common Usage
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Training Mix
O Brio 101 O Study Halls
. Basie navigation and ® |nformal, open agenda
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O Brio 201 Best Practices
™ Advanced analytics and ™ Demonstration of best
reports practices, delivered by
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™ Data mart basics, BQYs, and 4 One-on-Ones
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O Operational Training specific
™ Focuses on practical reporting/analytical
applications , delivered by
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Training Philosophy
O The goal of the training program goes
beyond teaching the mechanics:
™ Need to se// the Brio tool and the project
™ Need to educate on the benefits of the DW
19 Need to emphasize that Banner and the DW
are complementary systems, i.e.,
Need to continue and inspire!
We are changing our analytical
culture!
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Addressing Information Quality
O Establishing processes to capture erroneous and
inconsistent data
™ ETL process to identify errors
™ Rejecting data
13 Load data and clearly label errors
O Data Audit processes
™ Ensuring that the loaded data reconciles back to
the operational systems
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Addressing Information Quality
Establishing Data Stewards roles and
responsibilities
O The overall data integrity and conformity by instilling business
practices and procedures to identify and correct erroneous and
inconsistent data recorded in ERP systems
Ensuring that Meta-data is up-to-date
Operational Training in information applicability and usage
Establishing processes to capture and maintain data necessary
to support decisions
O Enforcing Common Definitions by facilitating agreement across
organizational boundaries
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Establishing services and
support
O Assessments of information needs
O Expansion and enhancement of Warehoused
Information
Expansion and enhancement of Information
Delivery solutions
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O Process re-engineering
O Monitoring data quality
O Support Assessment, Planning, and Analysis
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Offering full spectrum of campus training
programs
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Establishing services and support
Transitioning from Development to Operations
O Front-End (Hyperion Performance Suite)
Administration
ETL (Power Center) Administration
Desktop Support and Administration
Data Base Administration
Dash Board maintenance
Brio documents development, support, and
administration
Customer Support
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Catalyst of Change
Processes and Culture
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Changes in our Processes
Some examples on utilization of the warehoused information
in our operations:
Assessment and Planning
O Enrollment Planning Committee meeting utilizes the
enrollment and the admission data insetting the __
enrollment targets and financial aid goals as they discuss
the incoming class (how we did, quality, numbers,
diversity, etc)
O Retention analysis - analyzing the admissions data to
better understand how well the incoming class may be
retained next year
Ol Assessment of Employee retention
O Assessment of Faculty renewal program
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Changes in our Processes
Forecasting:
Forecast current year sponsor research expenditures
Forecast graduate financial aid commitments
Utilize past enrollment, retention, and financial aid information to forecast current and
future year financial aid commitments to determine the affordability of various discount
rates
More accurately forecast research awards
Utilizing historical research ‘success rates’ in projecting cost sharing commitments
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Monitoring and compliance:
© Daily monitoring of budgets and expenditures from higher levels down to the specifics
Monitor and review project to date budgets
C Monitoring positions budgets vs. actuals and in conjunction with estimated future earnings
are accurately projecting balances
1 Monitoring the allocation of graduate financial aid
Operations
O Financial information is used in preparing and analyzing the financial statements,
reconciling between the sub-ledger and general ledger, reviewing payroll allocations
© Credit card reconciliation
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Cultural Changes
Empowers decision-makers: Getting
accustomed to information availability
Promotes the “no walls” culture: Performing
analysis that could never been done before
From ‘MY Data’ to ‘Our Information’
Data Stewards role in improving data quality,
integrity, and conformity
Fact based decision making
How do we now redirect these costly
personnel hours
Enhanced institutional effectiveness
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Assessing Data Warehouse
Penetration and Adoption
Number of users trained and their role in
organization
Number of distinct users connected monthly
Number of monthly connection
Requests for changes and enhancements
Satisfaction surveys
alue
Shifting IT resources from reporting to other value
added activities
Productivity savings on the business side
Savings realized by better more informed access to
information
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The Dreaded Return on Investment
Calculating ROI
O Savings in personnel and processing
O More Effective Financial Aid packaging
O Effective recruitment strategies
O Identification of retention issues to
target
O More fiscal responsiveness
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Benefits
Fosters data integrity and conformity
O One version of the truth
O Helps to identify erroneous and
inconsistent data
O Establishing ‘data cleanup’ procedures
Value shifts from data supplier to
analysis
Testimonials
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What’s Next
Cultural shifts: Are we Higher
Education and non for profit or
Business?
Performance planning processes and
assessments
O Cultural shifts towards developing Goals,
Objectives, measuring outcomes
O KPI, Scorecards, Metrics
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Visualization
Mining
Pre build
dynamic
queries;
Meta Topics
Exceptions
Alert
Notific
Research
financials
Dash
Board
Simple
Pre populated
Specific Dash
Boards
Pre populated
Generic
Campus Wide
Dash Boards
KPI
Scorecards
Planning and
Assessment
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Informational Resources
O The data warehouse toolkit (Ralph
Kimball)
O The data warehouse lifecycle toolkit
(Ralph Kimball)
O Data warehouse design solutions
(Christopher Adamson & Michael
Venerable)
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Informational Resources
O Become a member of the data
warehouse institute
O Visit http://www.datawarehousing.com
maintained by DataMirror
O Subscribe to listserv from EDUCAUSE
http://www.educause.edu/memdir/cg/cg.Html
O visit other schools web sites via
http://www.Georgetown.edu/users/all
anr/dwconfig/
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