What you need if you are planning to use the Data Warehouse
Access to the University of Pennsylvania's Data Warehouse requires 3 things.
You need all three:
- Permission
- A query tool
- Training
Permission (formal authorization to use the data)
To obtain permission to use any of the data housed in the Data Warehouse, you
must complete a "Data Warehouse Access
Request Form" and submit it to Data Administration. Please make sure you
have all of the required signatures before you send it along. In some cases,
you will also need prerequisite training before you will be able to get access.
For example: users of General Ledger data must first get a BEN Financials account
(and have BEN Financials
training); users of Student data must first get a
SRS account (and have SRS training). Note that obtaining permission is a
different step from obtaining software, and getting training.
A query tool (software)
The supported query tool at the University of Pennsylvania is Business
Objects. We have two types of licenses
available at Penn: Business Objects full-client also known as Desktop
Intelligence (Deski), and InfoView-only.
- InfoView is web-based and does
not require any software installation. InfoView users cannot create
or modify queries; they can run existing canned reports.
- Deski does require installing
the software on your computer. Deski users have the full functionality
of creating and editing queries. Please note
that having
the software is not enough; you still may need data training, and you
will still need permission.
Training
There are two types of training: query tool training and data training.
- Formal
training in the use of Business Objects, or whatever query tool
you plan to use, is strongly recommended but not
mandatory.
- For some data collections,
data
training
is required before you will be given access.
Consult the "training" section
in each of the data collections for more detailed information. Please
note that
attending training it not enough; you still need permission and you may still
need software installed on your computer.
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