Dear All
I’ve been reading the thread about reporting from multiple systems with great
interest and would like to canvas sector opinion a bit further. Here at LSBU
we have invested in Cognos and a data warehouse bringing together a data
set from various sources Student, HR and Estates. We have also recently
completed several projects - annual monitoring and access to learning
operational reporting (not from the Data Warehouse) with relative success.
The University aim is to provide one reporting system to cover all types of
reporting – Dash Board, Operational and ‘What if’ scenarios, however,
currently the majority of operational reporting is performed through Crystal
Reports. With so much structure and experience already invested in Crystal
Reports and with the significantly longer development times to build
operational reports within Cognos, our quandary has been whether the one
size fits all approach is realistic. I would like to invite your opinion and
experience on the following:
Are most institutions looking toward one reporting solution to fit all reporting
needs and if so has anyone been successful (with which product)?
Is anyone using Cognos for operational reporting? And what has been your
experience.
If you have any questions on the LSBU experience with Cognos data
warehousing / on-demand reporting so far, I would be happy to answer them.
Kind Regards
Nathan
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