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Enterprise Data at the UW

Last updated: August 7, 2025
Audience: All UW

Enterprise data is the shared, secure, and structured information that powers operations, decision-making, and strategic initiatives at the UW. UW-IT manages, integrates, and delivers this data to support research, learning, and administrative work. This data is accessible through tools and services such as the BI Portal (reports, dashboards, cubes), Workday Reporting, the Enterprise Data Warehouse (databases), and Enterprise Web Services (APIs), along with other home-grown analytics solutions that enhance the student and instructor experience.

UW Enterprise Data News

UWSDBDataStore Reorg on June 5, 2021

May. 14, 2021

The student database (SDB) will go through a reorganization on June 5, 2021 which will cause changes in the Enterprise Data Warehouse database, UWSDBDataStore. These changes to the objects will be available in the UWSDBDataStore on June 7, 2021. However, data on…

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BI Portal Finance Report Changes: Budget Group Code Update

Apr. 27, 2021

Enterprise Reporting and Analytics just released an update that affects several finance reports in the BI Portal. Here is a summary of the changes and their impact to finance report users. This work was completed in partnership with the Enterprise Data Warehouse…

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HRPWS Release: support for streamline initiative

Apr. 19, 2021

Update (6/7/2021): HRPWS updates to support the streamline initiative are in production. Over the past year, we have been working on an initiative to streamline how we get HR/Payroll Data from Workday into the Enterprise Data Platform (the portfolio of services including Enterprise…

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