2013_05_31_JonesValerie

DWH Team Status Report for 05/31/2013

DWH KFS Decision Support JIRA Tasks - Status Chart

Prior Two Week Activity

Kuali Financial System

Completed

• Reports developed thus far:
  
  • Fund Summary Report (FS0150 equivalent)
  • Ledger Detail Report  (FS0100 equivalent)
  • Balance reports (expense, revenue, asset/liability, fund balance)
  • Expense Summary Report (FS0400)
• Provided FS0150 SQL and data dump to KFS team for reconciliation
• Built a view of the FS0150 sql for future use by KFS team (table name is fs0150_v)

In Progress

• Reports that are completed will be sent to General Accounting for approval this week. We will not be able to get a final approval until balances have been fixed and verified. Victor and Jason are working on coming up with proper names for these reports.
• Valerie is working with Jason and Victor to prioritize the reports list. 
• Upgrading TalenD jobs to newer version on the production server (Valerie/Anh)
• ETL specifications for PURAP fact table (Tammy)
• Build Cognos framework to allow building of reports for KFS reconciliation process (Tammy)
• Document and provide data warehouse team the list of fund groups needed to add to the database for FS0150 style reports (business analyst/focus group)
• Enhancement to DWH BOToolkit to allow calls to new KFS web services (student)
• Prototyping of prompt pages for Cognos reports (student)
• Cognos browser compatibility testing (student)
• Scripts to add KFS attributes to legacy data warehouse (employee, payroll, fs). Coding is complete - currently testing each time COA is re-loaded. (Grace)
• Continue updating up the account dimension job per recent schema changes in data warehouse tables (current change in progress is related to Award/Fund data conversion changes) (Anh)
• Development of scripts to migrate open receivables transactions from legacy DWH to KFS DWH (Anh)

Data Warehouse Support

Next two week planned activities and deliverables

• Continue making bug fixes to ETL scripts and testing
• 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
• Continue report development for highest priority reports
• Meeting to discuss concerns with object codes as revenue accounts in KFS - Amber Christensen from Health Sciences will attend this meeting to voice her concerns.
• Students will continue to develop KFS look-up reports in Cognos

Production support trends in terms of tickets either in JIRA or Footprints.  

Staffing issues or personnel related matters

Budget requests for any new software or hardware

Training requests

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

We plan to upgrade to SQL Server 2012 on our development server, but there are concerns this might cause some setbacks for the KFS Decision Support project.