Lee,
    The University of Akron developed a Data warehouse for the academic
side in 1996-97, It includes census data enrollments, student
demographics, enrollment data to the course section level, instructor
data, etc. We were in the planning stages of extending this to
financials and other areas when the PSoft conversion side-tracked
additional development.
    We still use this tool extensively and would be dead without it. We
are now developing an enterprise wide data warehouse out of the PSoft
environment. That project is in its infancy and is much more extensive
than the one we have now.
    If you want someone to talk in visionary terms about what can be
done in IR with data warehouses, balance scorecards, etc. Dr. Tom
Gaylord, our VPCIO has some very interesting and visionary ideas.
    I have not talked to him about our fall meeting, but he has
presented at national meetings.

dick

Lee Mortimer wrote:

> Hello all,
> I have a possible topic and speaker.  Over the past several
> years
> WSU has been developing a Data Warehouse.
> The finance side of the house has had a warehouse up and
> running for several years now with fantastic results.  Now
> we are working on the academic side and have the "first
> phase" up and running. A gentleman by the name of Scott Rife
> has been the leader on the Data Warehouse project (both on
> the finance and academic side), and I have briefly talked to
> him, telling him about our group and what the audience may
> expect and so on.  He has expressed some interest in maybe
> doing a 1  (or so) hour presentation for us.  A couple of
> questions:
>
> 1.     Is anyone interested in this?
> 2. Do any of you have Data Warehouses or planning on
> implementing a Data Warehouse?

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