Business Intelligence
Business Intelligence or BI is a broad category of applications and technologies for gathering, storing, analysing and providing access to data to help enterprise users make better business decisions. At the university BI is part of Strategy and Planning's portfolio and the capabilities developed will be used to support Performance Reporting and the Institutional Planning and Performance Framework.
Business Intelligence is delivered via both the Oracle BI Discoverer tool and the Cognos Business Intelligence platform. Oracle's BI Discoverer is the university's "self service" ad-hoc querying tool that empowers data savy business users to gain immediate access to information. Cognos Business Intelligence is the University's strategic platform for BI and will be used to deliver all new capabilties moving forward. It is an integrated platform that provides tools for:
- Ad-hoc Querying and Analysis
- Online/Prompted reporting
- Pixel Perfect Reporting and Briefing Books
- Dashboards/Scorecards/Metrics
- Planning, Budgeting and Forecasting
Both these environments draw on integrated data sets from the university's data warehouse.
BI Discoverer
BI Discoverer provides access to the following areas in the data warehouse: Student Profiling, DEEWR data and the results of the Australian Graduate Survey (CEQ/GDS). It is available to all current University of Adelaide staff that have completed Discoverer Data Warehouse training, the two half-day courses can be booked through the training website. Although anyone who completes the training will be granted access, managers and supervisors should carefully consider which staff in their area are suitable. Staff chosen to attend training should have a good understanding of the business processes that collect data in PeopleSoft systems and be familiar with database concepts. Additionally business units are encouraged to implement the "power user" concept where only one or two appropriately skilled individuals become experts extracting information on behalf of the area.
To create/view/modify your own reports connect to Discoverer below:
Cognos BI
Cognos BI is user licensed and therefore only available to staff who require access to one of the following areas as part of their core job function:
- Student Load Performance Reporting (actuals, targets and projections)
- LMM - Load Management Model (program, teaching and funding targets)
- Program Performance Reporting (consolidated KPI's for each program)
- Course Review templates
- Payroll and Commitments Reporting
- SMM - Salary Management Model (budget and forecast)
The following link will open the Cognos BI portal for authorised users:
For access enquires contact Adam Gardner (Manager, Business Intelligence): adam.gardner@adelaide.edu.au
