Reports and Analytics News
November 17, 2025
Discovering New Academic Possibilities with DawgPath’s Topically Similar Majors Feature
Since 2021, DawgPath has been a key tool for improving a Husky’s academic journey. Now, a new feature—Topically Similar Majors—makes it even easier for UW students to explore programs that share common themes, topics, and subject matter. Whether a student is facing capacity-constrained major admissions, rethinking their academic interests, or still deciding on a direction, this tool offers a curated list of majors that align with a student’s interests. It’s designed to spark new ideas, highlight alternative pathways, and support informed decision-making. Advisers across all three UW campuses can also use this feature to guide students toward programs that fit...
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September 16, 2025
Advancing Accessibility: A New Dashboard for Tracking Progress
The ADA Digital Accessibility Initiative (DAI) ensures that UW’s digital content is accessible, providing equal information, interactions, and services to people with disabilities. Additionally, the Initiative is leading UW’s work to comply with Department of Justice regulations by April 2026 and setting up the mechanisms to ensure accessible content thereafter. To support this Initiative, the ADA Digital Accessibility Compliance Progress dashboard is now available to track implementation and monitor digital accessibility compliance by: Improving leadership access to clear, relevant digital accessibility data. Highlighting areas with challenges that may increase risk. Providing a consistent but flexible source of progress data to...
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July 14, 2025
Preserving Access: BI Team Supports Retirement of Legacy Finance Systems
In FY 2024, the University of Washington officially transitioned to Workday Finance as its primary financial system of record. To minimize disruption during the rollout, several systems slated for retirement were temporarily placed in read-only mode, allowing users to retain access to legacy financial data. As users adjusted to the new Workday environment, UW-IT launched a major project to fully retire these read-only systems. The Business Intelligence (BI) team played a key role—developing reporting solutions to ensure continued access to legacy financial data after system retirement. BI Team Contributions: Technical Solutions and Strategic Support The BI team contributed to the...
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June 18, 2025
Announcing Updates to the UW Finance Cubes
The Reporting & Analytics team (R&A) and Finance DATAGroup have released new versions of the UW Finance Cube for FY 2024 and FY 2025 and the UW Summarized Cube! Thanks to user feedback, the following updates are now available! This release adds new fields, consolidates related data, and removes some dimensions to enhance clarity and usability. Summary of Changes by Dimension Award This dimension was removed in this release. The following fields, which were previously grouped under it, have been moved to the Grant dimension: Award Contract Owner Award Contract Owner Name Award Name Award Line This dimension and its...
June 11, 2025
New Dashboard Sheds Light on the Sponsored Program Lifecycle
The sponsored program lifecycle at the UW spans multiple systems and teams—including SAGE, Workday, the Office of Research, and Finance Planning & Budgeting. Historically, there was no way to view processing data from award setup through closeout, making it difficult to identify delays, monitor workloads, or plan proactively. In the absence of comprehensive data, teams often had to rely on limited observations, opinions, or the most visible parts of the process—leading to reactive planning, misaligned priorities, and missed opportunities for improvement. The new Sponsored Programs Setup Metrics Dashboard helps close this gap by providing data to support better decision-making, anticipate...
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June 2, 2025
Streamlining Registration Tracking with Tableau
Development of the new Period 1 Registration Metrics Tableau workbook started with a question: “can we make this process easier?” For Ammy Phuwanartnurak, a Service Manager/Business Analyst on UW-IT’s Student & Educational Technology Services (SETS) team, this question surfaced during her quarterly push to gather Period 1 registration metrics. Every Fall, Winter, and Spring quarter*, she compiled registration data on student groups, transactions, and courses, then calculated the year-over-year growth rate for each day in the Period 1 window. *Note: Summer quarter Period 1 registration is different than other quarters and does not have a high traffic load, so it...
April 16, 2025
Expanding the Grant Manager Dashboard for Grant Financial Analysts
Historically, the Grant Manager Dashboard was only fully functional for users with the Grant Manager role. While users with the Grant Financial Analyst role have always been able to view the dashboard, the Sponsored Grants, Awards, and Sponsored Grants Staffing tabs would appear blank for these users because they weren’t assigned directly to any grants. Thanks to a recent enhancement, Grant Financial Analysts can now customize the Sponsored Grants, Awards, and Sponsored Grants Staffing tabs with reports designed specifically for their role. About the Grant Manager Dashboard The Grant Manager Dashboard provides Grant Managers (and now Grant Financial Analysts!) with a central...
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April 16, 2025
Improving Visibility into POs, Programs, and Additional Resources for Grant Managers and PIs
New versions of the Grant Manager and Principal Investigator (PI) dashboards are now available. They help users view their PO encumbrances and liquidations, evaluate their current fiscal year program activities, and connect with relevant resources, by business process area. This article introduces these enhancements and explains how to access them from the dashboards. About the Grant Manager and PI Dashboards Both of these dashboards provide Grant Managers and PIs with a central place to find grant-related content that is specific to them, splitting data across six tabs—Sponsored Grants, Awards, Stand Alone Grants, Gifts, Sponsored Grant Staffing, and Programs. For more...
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April 16, 2025
Introducing the Updated Financial Desktop
Initially launched during the UW Finance Transformation (UWFT) to help users transition from the legacy MyFD system to Workday, the Financial Desktop primarily served as a crosswalk between MyFD and Workday. Now, with go-live close to two years behind us, it has been updated to better reflect how users work today, serving as a central hub for commonly used reports, tasks, and tools, organized by business process area. Key Features Tabs to Organize Resources by Business Process Area Each tab represents a different Business Process Area—such as Financial Reporting, Sponsored Grants, and Procurement and Supply Chain—and includes curated links to...
April 15, 2025
Introducing the Cost Center Planning & Forecasting Tool
We’re excited to share that a new Cost Center Planning & Forecasting Tool is now available in Workday Drive! This tool allows Cost Center Managers to: View totals by cost center using actual Workday data Enter manual projections for more accurate forecasting Run basic scenario planning—all within a single worksheet Important Note: This tool is not intended to replace Adaptive Planning or the formal budget process. Rather, it provides a lightweight and accessible option for Cost Center Managers—particularly those without access to Adaptive—who need to track actuals and plan at the local level. We encourage you to explore the tool...
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