DWH Team Status Report for 03/22/2013
DWH KFS Decision Support JIRA Tasks - Status Chart
Prior Two Week Activity
Kuali Financial System
Completed
- Met with Purchasing to give a brief training session on Cognos and discuss their reporting needs
- Met with focus group to discuss user experience in Decision Support and assign work to the team
- Focus group will assist with re-naming all KFS Cognos query items (currently they are not very user friendly)
- ETL development for all PURAP dimensions, encountered a problem loading the PURAP fact table (Ticket has been submitted to Talend support, marked high priority!)
- Software installation for Cognos production servers
- Clean-up of data model to fix any inconsistencies, remove unused columns and add new columns
- Assigned look-up reports for COA fields (Account, Object Code, etc.) to student developers
In Progress
- Scripts to add KFS attributes to legacy data warehouse (employee, payroll, fs). Coding is complete - currently testing each time COA is re-loaded.
- Implement the changes to the data model on the database, fix any jobs that break as a result of the database changes
- Code review of ETL jobs delivered from consultant for balances, and capital assets
- Development for FS0150, FS0209 (for standard reconciliation) equivalent reports
- Document a distinct list of Cognos reports to be developed for KFS with prioritization
- Report Specs for capital asset module reports
- ETL specifications for PURAP
- Requirements gathering for Accounts Payable and PURAP modules
- Development of scripts to migrate open receivables transactions from legacy DWH to KFS DWH
- Talend server installation on UNIX - still waiting on installation, email has been sent to sys admin this morning asking for status
- Students will continue to develop KFS look-up reports in Cognos
- Document and provide data warehouse team the list of fund groups needed to add to the database for FS0150 style reports
Data Warehouse Support
DWH is operating well as usual, Grace is acting as primary DWH production support.
Next two week planned activities and deliverables
- Schedule follow-up meetings with Purchasing users to finalize reporting requirements
- Continue working on approval for high priority reports
- Plans for Cognos portal/user experience for Cognos (SNAP) - will work with focus group on this project
- Finalize requirements for Purchasing departmentMeet with users from Purchasing to finalize reporting needs
- Report specs approval for Capital Asset and PURAP
- Continue report development for highest priority reports
Production support trends in terms of tickets either in JIRA or Footprints.
DWH Production Support 10%, New development 90% (except Grace)
Staffing issues or personnel related matters
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