Post on 14-Dec-2015
Reporting Panel – ODS / Informer / SQL Server Reporting Services
Jeremy Brinkman, University of Northwestern OhioAlan Crowley, Alma CollegeJonathan Martindell, Franklin UniversityDiane Pack, Macomb Community CollegeJay Schwellenbach, Northwood University
Jeremy BrinkmanAssistant VP for Information Technology
University of Northwestern Ohio
Introducing: Jeremy Brinkman
www.unoh.edu
• Private, Non-profit Institution• Founded in 1920• 4600+ students from all 50 states and 24
foreign countries• Five Colleges: College of Applied Technologies,
College of Business, College of Occupational Professions, College of Health Professions, Graduate College
University of Northwestern Ohio
www.unoh.edu
• Windows + SQL Server• Reporting Tools– Crystal Reports– SAP BusinessObjects with Web Intelligence– SQL Server Management Studio– SQL Server Business Intelligence Development
Studio• Custom Data Warehouse (No ODS)
UNOH: Reporting Environment
www.unoh.edu
UNOH: Business Objects Example
www.unoh.edu
Alan CrowleyDirector of Enterprise Information Systems
Alma College
Introducing: Alan Crowley
www.alma.edu
• Private, Non Profit ~ 1400 Students• Windows + SQL Server• Purchased and had Datatel Install– Datatel ODS– SAP BusinessObjects with Web Intelligence
• Issues– Small IT Staff – Strong SQL Skills– Costly, Complex, Security, and losing records– Users needed reports Now– Easier to automate and run SQL queries
Alma College: Reporting Environment
www.alma.edu
• Moved to Custom Warehouse – Created Stored Procedures to populate Custom
Data Warehouse Tables– Continue to expand Warehouse as new Report
requests come in.• End Users Run Crystal Reports
• IT Created Report templates• Power Users get full version of Crystal• Non Power Users use “free” version of LogicCity
Desktop (Report Viewer) to run Reports.
Alma College: Reporting Environment
www.alma.edu
Jonathan MartindellProgrammer AnalystFranklin University
Introducing: Jonathan Martindell
www.franklin.edu
• Private, Non-profit Institution• Columbus, OH• Serves Adult Students• Expanding Globally and Domestically• Community College Consortium Agreements• GoArmyEd Institution• Online Courses
Franklin University
• Data Warehouse in 2009– Information Builders WebFOCUS
• ODS in 2011– Microsoft Report Manager / BIDS– Operational Reports– ‘Views’ of data meant to be further filtered/sorted– Utilize Subversion plugin in development process• AnkhSVN: http://ankhsvn.open.collab.net/
Franklin University: Reporting
Franklin University
Franklin University
Franklin University
Franklin University
Franklin University
Franklin University
• Four Campuses• Enroll more than 50,000 students annually • The largest grantor of associate's degrees in
the State of Michigan and consistently ranks in the top 2% nationally.
Macomb Community College
www.macomb.edu
• Reporting Tools– Colleague Query Builder (phasing out by
department)– SAP BusinessObjects with Web Intelligence– SQL Server Management Studio
• ODS (nightly refresh)
MCC: Reporting Environment
www.macomb.edu
Jay SchwellenbachProgrammer Analyst
Northwood University
Introducing: Jay Schwellenbach
www.northwood.edu
Northwood University has:
Three residential campuses:• West Palm Beach, Florida• Midland, Michigan• Cedar Hill (Dallas), Texas
Over 20 Adult Degree Program satellite centers across eight states.
DeVos Graduate School of Management located in Michigan, Florida, and Texas, as well as in Montreux, Switzerland.
Northwood University also has International Program Centers in:
• China (2)• Malaysia• Sri Lanka• Switzerland
NU: Reporting Environment
• ODS• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – SQL Server
Management Studio• Microsoft SQL Server 2008 – R2 Report Builder
3.0• SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services
Questions for the Panel?