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Migration Migration From Mainframe to SAS From Mainframe to SAS Enterprise Guide Reporting Enterprise Guide Reporting
A New Retention Process in IR Office
byYan Zhou
Institutional Research and ReportingUniversity of Oklahoma
The Big Picture
• OU is in the progress of migrating from legacy system to Sungard Banner student system.
• Mainframe reporting methods will stop in use and be replaced by PC based reporting.
IR Challenges
• Mainframe uses the predefined reports which can not meet the increasing needs for ad hoc reporting.
• Mainframe uses data tapes, not database.
Retention• The old way:
Cohort2000
FTFTDSCohort
Enrollment
Degree
Year 2006
Retention Report
Student Data
The Work Plan
• Data Storage
Data WarehouseMainframe
Tapes
MS Access
The Work Plan
• SAS Enterprise Guide 4.1 was chosen as the new BI analytical tool.
Retention
• The PC Solution
Enrollment
Degree
Retention ReportsStudent Data Cohort
Tables
SAS Enterprise Guide
• Easy to use user interface. • Project designer feature.• Powerful Data Manipulation • Transparent data access interface(Access,
Excel, SAS datasets, Oracle, etc.)
Demo
• Multi-year retention report, Enterprise Guide demo– Data query and filter– Calculated field– Parameter– Report Builder– Format
Demo
• More ad hoc retention reports
Summary
The retention process was improved from three aspects
• Data Storage• Work Flow• Analytical ToolsWe achieved our goal of more flexibility and
faster speed in creating retention reports.
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