2013_03_22_JonesValerie

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
Meet 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

We were approved to hire 2 additional students to assist with ETL work and report development. Interviews are in progress and we hope to make an offer by early next week.

Budget requests for any new software or hardware

Training requests

Things learned, suggestions for improvements or anything else you think might be important

I have been getting a few requests from other developers on campus to implement queries for KFS data in the legacy data warehouse. They have told me that they do not have the expertise in-house to change their code to use our new web services. Many of these users call to data warehouse using the BO Toolkit which is very convenient. We may have to consider writing some legacy data warehouse queries for these users or allow them direct database access if we want them to make the July deadline to convert their systems.