Enterprise Reporting Project

Goals

• Create UW-wide agreement on "institutional" answers to Top 5 questions Deans and Chancellors ask about their schools, colleges, and campuses.
• Provide these answers through a single, easy-to-access Web portal.
• Create a foundation and repeatable methodology for continuing to define our institutional data.
• Inform the build-out of our Enterprise Data Warehouse to support our data needs at both central and local levels.

Guiding Principles

• Meet UW needs first! (i.e., answers to the Top 5 meet internal UW purposes as opposed to state or accreditation requirements).
• "Answers" to Top 5 represent 80% of the needs across schools, colleges, and campuses (may have more than one "answer" if needed to meet need).
• Initial audience is the deans (future iterations can broaden to other audiences)
• Report will provide answers to these questions longitudinally, by school, college, campus, and UW-wide.
• Provide clear documentation (in "simple English") on how reports are defined, generated, and utilized.
• Do not go through "heroics" to generate this data; generate it using a repeatable report process on existing databases OR outline the work necessary to generate this data from the Enterprise Data Warehouse.

Please email questions and comments to dmc-support@u.washington.edu