DATA WAREHOUSING AND REPORTING

Kuali Financial

Date Warehousing and Reporting

Bill Overman – Indiana University

Dylan Cooper – University of Arizona

Susan Moore – University of California, Davis

Date Warehousing and Reporting

Agenda• Overview of approach taken by each school• Hints on important data • Technical hints• Demonstrations

Note: These applications do NOT come with KFS

Indiana University

• Datagroups– Both GL and reference tables– Denormalized

• Important fields to consider• Returns data to spreadsheet

Datagroups from GL tables

• General Ledger Entry– Transaction level detail– Includes a description

• General Ledger Balance– Summary by accounting string

General Ledger Entry

• Balance Type Code – budget, actual, encumbrance• University Fiscal Period Code denotes month• Object Type, Amount and Debit/Credit Flag work

together to determine positive/negative sign

General Ledger Balance

• Balance Type Code• Buckets for monthly balances• Other buckets– Account Line Annual Balance Amount– Financial Beginning Balance Amount– Contract and Grant Beginning Balance Amount

Denormalizing

• Account– Name– Fiscal Officer– Organization– Expiration Date, Closed Indicator– Sub-Fund Group Fund Group– Higher Education Function Code

Denormalizing

• Object Code– Object Level Code– Object Consolidation Code– Reports to Object Code

Datagroups from Reference Tables

• Account/Organization Datagroup• Object Code Datagroup• Sub Accounts• Sub Object Codes• Year End Snapshots

The University of Arizona

Dylan Cooper520-626-5214

dacooper@email.arizona.edu

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KFS DW/BI Team

Doug Hester – Senior TechnicalDylan Cooper – Senior Technical Nargis Memon – Junior Technical

Ned Tomsheck – Accountant Nevil Pozholiparambil – Masters Student/Junior Technical

UAccess Analytics

• The University of Arizona Basics– Front end: Oracle Business Intelligence EE Plus– ETL: IBM DataStage– Back end: Oracle (PeopleSoft EPM)– Data • Star schemas• Data Marts (in development) - General Ledger, Chart of

Accounts, Labor Ledger, Capital Assets and Purchasing

Trial Balance Report

Trial Balance Report

Trial Balance Report

Trial Balance Report

OBIEE Administration Tool

Summary Account Activity Star

Account Activity Fact

Account Dimension

Object Code Dimension

Fiscal Period Dimension

Account Activity Fact

Keys for Dimensions

Month Net Measures

YTD Measures

Prior Month Measures

Prior Year Measures

One row for each account, object code

and fiscal periodcombination

Summary Table

Account Activity Fact

Account Income Amt Expense Amt

12345 20.00 200.00

ABCDE 100.00 500.00

Account Acct Category Amount

Income

Expense

Income

Expense

10.00

100.00

50.00

500.00

12345

12345

ABCDE

ABCDE

Transaction Data Pivoted Data

Account Dimension

Chart Info

Organizational Unit InfoTracks changes in

account information

Slowly Changing Dimension

Account Type Info

Fund Info

Account Info

Sub-Account Info

KFS Staging Area

CHANGES

History Tables

FACTS & DIMENSIONS

Report TablesStaging Tables

COPY OF KFS

Conclusions

Dimensional Warehouse vs. Traditional Warehouse

Specialized Tools vs. General Purpose Tools

KFS Decision Support SIG

Tuesday: 6:15 – 6:45 Conference Room 17Wednesday: 11:00 – noon Conference Room 12

James SingletonCornell University

jim.singleton@cornell.edu

Tina Golini JesseeIndiana University

cgolini@indiana.edu

University of California, Davis

UC Davis Decision Support

• Decision Support Basics– Front end: Cold Fusion– Bank end: Oracle– Data • Source - General Ledger and reference tables• Denormalized data • Month end snapshot – ensures reports are

reproducible

UC Davis Decision Support

• Access– Broad campus access– Few access restrictions• Account type limits budget provisions

– Payroll detail limited to user’s organization

UC Davis Decision Support

Output Options

UC Davis Decision Support

Demonstration