That's a very good idea. People and jobs come and go and its difficult to keep track, so an automated group like jiscmail is ideal to keep in touch if there's a wide interest, which there seems to be. I've set up Jiscmail groups in the past, I think I was even one of the first three founder members of this group when it was a private list, through its gravitation first to mailbase then to Jiscmail. (The late Rae Mitchell at Aston was the prime instigator to whom we owe an enormous debt of gratitude as it has been very useful over the years.) There's virtually no traffic on my only current jiscmail list, ADMIN-ELQ, but I am set up as a list owner with Jiscmail so two is just as much work as one. So rather than burden Ali, the list-owner of this one, where there is quite a bit of traffic, I am happy to volunteer to set this one if that would be popular? Suggested terms: Name: ADMIN-BUSINESS-INTELLIGENCE Description: to discuss from a non-technical point of view issues about the use of Business Intelligence tools, and related topics such as data warehousing, in providing corporate and strategic management information within universities and colleges Need to make it clear it's not a forum for RDBMS technobabble I think and aimed at users and strategic planners/analysts? Any thoughts? Amendments? Anyone else prefer to do it? It takes a few days to get it running if we go ahead. Kind regards Mike Mike Milne-Picken Academic Registrar Royal Northern College of Music 124 Oxford Road Manchester M13 9RD T (44) 0161 907 5331 F (44) 0161 273 8188 E [log in to unmask]<blocked::mailto:[log in to unmask]> www.rncm.ac.uk ________________________________ From: Academic, financial or space planning in UK universities [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Laurence Brewer Sent: 11 March 2010 10:50 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Mini Survey on business intelligence Hi Is there a separate Jiscmail group being set up relating to BI issues, if so I'd be interested joining. Laurence ________________________________ From: Academic, financial or space planning in UK universities [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Liam Sheridan Sent: 11 March 2010 09:07 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: Mini Survey on business intelligence Hi Georgina, At Bournemouth University we are embarking on a Data Warehousing exercise to join up student/finance/HR/vitual learning & timetabling systems and would be very interested in participating in the survey - and very interested in the results also. Regards, Liam Dr Liam Sheridan Academic Management Information Manager Student & Academic Services Directorate Bournemouth University Melbury House, 1-3 Oxford Road Bournemouth BH8 8ES Tel: 01202 961069 Fax: 01202 961066 -----Original Message----- From: Academic, financial or space planning in UK universities [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Georgina Spary Sent: 10 March 2010 16:27 To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Mini Survey on business intelligence Thanks to those who have emailed their responses to my mini survey posted earlier. I've noticed that with everyone's busy workloads it is difficult for people to respond by this Friday - so would like to extend the deadline to next Friday 19th March. Sorry about that, I underestimated the level of interest! Regards Georgina (Any non-admin-group survey queries/responses to [log in to unmask] please) -- Georgina Spary Business Intelligence Manager SBPO, Corporate Affairs Oxford Brookes University + 1865 484887 BU - the UK's Number One New University The Guardian University Guide 2009 & 2010 This email is intended only for the person to whom it is addressed and may contain confidential information. If you have received this email in error, please notify the sender and delete this email, which must not be copied, distributed or disclosed to any other person. Any views or opinions presented are solely those of the author and do not necessarily represent those of Bournemouth University or its subsidiary companies. Nor can any contract be formed on behalf of the University or its subsidiary companies via email.