EIS Reports and Data Warehouse

EIS Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence

The EIS Data Warehousing and Business Intelligence team is responsible for providing and supporting the data warehousing and business intelligence infrastructures. The team is comprised of a Computer Systems Manager, 2 programmers, and 1 student programmer. Supported functions include:

  • Support of reporting, decision support and business intelligence needs of the UNT system
  • Configuring and maintaining ETL service between EIS and the data warehouse
  • Supporting Informatica and Cognos software suites

Major projects for the current fiscal year are:

  • Implementation of business intelligence
  • Budget reporting development
  • Support redesign of Institutional Research University Fact Book

Cognos ReportNet™

What is ReportNet?

ReportNet is the Web-based enterprise business intelligence report solution from Cognos. ReportNet:

  • provides flexible report presentation
  • supports a multilingual audience
  • is Web-based and has zero-footprint deployment
  • is scalable to support hundreds of thousands of users
  • leverages existing enterprise software
  • integrates with other Cognos BI products

You can see how to access Cognos® Institutional Research Reports here.

RDS Diagram

  • RDS Diagram - data warehouse architecture (revised 7/17/06)

Cypress

Cypress is a report distribution system that allows you to use, deliver and manage data contained within documents. Cypress includes an Inbox Viewer that allows users to view all documents and reports sent to a recipient. The Inbox is a personal output destination to which documents may be delivered. Any document can be delivered to an Inbox. The Inbox Viewer:

  • can be accessed from any location where the user logs on to the network
  • allows users to view documents and reports, and send them to a location for more options (for example, conversion of a word document to a spreadsheet)
  • allows documents and reports to be delivered to a recipient’s desktop the moment they’re created

More information on using Cypress: