Using ODS with ArgosUsing ODS with ArgosFramingham State College

Introduction Introduction◦Marsha Bryan – Director of

Administrative and StudentAdministrative and Student Information Systems

◦ Lannie He – Report Developer◦ Lannie He Report Developer◦ Kristen Corey – Student User Liaison

Banner Banner◦ Started implementation in 2006◦ Live (1st module) – Fall 2007◦ Live (1 module) – Fall 2007◦ Luminis, Workflow, Xtender, Degreeworks ODS Evisions HRCMSDegreeworks, ODS, Evisions, HRCMS interface and Powerfaids interface

Before the ODS implementation, most of the reports were created by IT staff p yusing baseline Banner tables.

Types of Users◦ Report Viewers◦ Report Writersp◦Datablock Designers

Report Generation Report Generation◦ Baseline◦ODS (Operational Data Store)~2008◦ODS (Operational Data Store)~2008

The types of our reports are classified as Banded reports, OLAP Data Cubes, HTML and Quick Views as well as letter forms and labels.

The number of report requests was much more than IT could handle.

After the installation of ODS, the users attended ODS implementation training on campus and took Datablock and Report design online training by EVISIONS as a starting point for self-service reporting.

IT set up a training folder and samples gand let them share and work with each other to develop their reports at the beginning.

These users are familiar with the INB forms in their own areas, and were trained to identify the table and field names within those forms, they are able to use the ODS Metadata effectively.

The ODS provided a “user-friendly” way for non-IT staff to build their own reports.

Views and fields in ODS are easy to yunderstand and combine data from various tables.

ODS vs. Banner

ODS: 1 view ODS: 1 view Banner: 15 tables

Datablock Sample by users

Report Sample by users

Provides special help to those departments who have more demand of reporting, such as Institutional Research, Admissions Office, Advancement, and Business Office.

Provides special help to those departments who have more demand of reporting, such as Institutional Research, Admissions Office Advancement and Business OfficeOffice, Advancement, and Business Office.

Conducts weekly drop in sessions for Conducts weekly drop-in sessions for questions and answers as needed.

Provides special help to these departments who has more demand of reporting such ashas more demand of reporting such as Institutional Research, Admission Office, Advancement and Business Office.

Conducts weekly drop-in sessions for questions and answers as needed.

Provides person-to-person help. One of our staff, Kristen, goes to lunchof our staff, Kristen, goes to lunch group with some Argos report designers once a week.

Provides special help to these departments who has more demand of reporting such as Institutionalmore demand of reporting such as Institutional Research, Admission Office, Advancement and Business Office.

Conducts weekly drop sessions for questions and answers.

Provides person-to-person help. One of our staff, Kristen, goes to lunch group with some Argos report designers once a week.

Sends out technical tips to the users.

IT Creates templates and functions:

X F GET ADDRESS ROWID(UID X_F_GET_ADDRESS_ROWID(UID, Addr_type)

Statistics of Argos:◦ODSP Connection:Datablocks: Total – 317 By non IT staff – 266(84%)

Reports: Total – 110 By non IT staff – 89(81%)

Statistics of Argos:◦ PROD Connection (baseline)Datablocks: Total – 300 By non IT staff – 61(20%)

Reports: Total – 447 By non IT staff – 75(17%)

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