Reports and Analytics News
June 28, 2022
New BI Portal is LIVE
Team successfully released the new BI Portal v2 on Monday 6/27. What’s new? New Interface: The BI Portal has a new look but the content is the same, including all the items you had in your “Favorites.”* UW Profiles is now inside the BI Portal: You can navigate to the original dashboards via the Browse by Tags section (shown below) on the home page, then clicking the UW Profiles tile. Where we started In 2013, the BI (Business Intelligence) Portal made its debut. It was created to provide reports, dashboards and cubes for data available in the EDW (Enterprise Data...
May 25, 2022
BI Portal Version 2: BI Portal and UW Profiles redesign and consolidation – release in June!
Current Status: Team approved a release of the BI Portal (version 2) for June, after brief code freeze. User Acceptance testing (UAT) completed User Acceptance Testing was successfully completed on May 23 with only a few reported issues. These issues have been prioritized and will be resolved or added to the queue for future updates. Upcoming code freeze To prepare for the release of the redesigned BI Portal (version 2), we’ll initiate a code freeze on mid to late June, with a release to follow. How will the freeze affect you? During the content freeze, you’ll still continue using the...
Read BI Portal Version 2: BI Portal and UW Profiles redesign and consolidation – release in June!
April 4, 2022
UW Country Names and Codes Report
We are happy to announce that you can now access a UW-approved list of country names and codes in a single report! The UW Country Names and Codes report can be accessed on BI Portal. What is the UW Country Names and Codes report? The University of Washington’s impact is broad and truly global, with projects and partnerships in more than 130 countries, as well as students and alumni who engage in nearly 200 countries. Previously, the country names list used in various units across campus has not been consistent, causing problems when merging data. Over the past several...
February 4, 2022
RPG Release: Updated Departmental GPA calculation on several reports
Based on this user feedback, the Report Prioritization Group released several important and timely updates to the BI Portal reports: Undergraduates Eligible to Register Student Grade Report by Course Student Grade Report by Major Student Degree Information Current Student Information In this news story, we provide a summary of the changes. If you have any questions, please don’t hesitate to write help@uw.edu and put “BI Portal Report Question: Departmental GPA” in the subject line. Change Summary This release includes 2 major updates: Major Departmental GPA logic has been updated in the following reports. Before the fix, three reports were inconsistently...
Read RPG Release: Updated Departmental GPA calculation on several reports
November 15, 2021
BI Portal: New Report – Principal Investigator Proposal and Award Search
Now Available in the BI Portal: Principal Investigator Proposal and Award Search report Do you find it difficult to manage research proposals and related awards for one or more specified principal investigators? If you could, would you like to dive deeper into the Principal Investigator (PI) research proposal and award data by a specific Fin Org code? Would your work be easier if you could filter and analyze the PI research proposal and award data by the proposal short or long title containing specific words or phrases? All of this and more are now available in the Enterprise Data Warehouse...
Read BI Portal: New Report – Principal Investigator Proposal and Award Search
November 9, 2021
New Look for Workday Reports Catalog
As part of the Report Adoption Project (RAP), we are very pleased to announce a new look and enhanced functionality of the Workday Reports Catalog in UW-IT’s Knowledge Navigator. The Workday Reports Catalog still provides summary information about all available Workday Reports, including: The full name of the report (as found in Workday) A description of the report Details about who can run the report But now you can use several new report filters to quickly search the catalog by: Workday Security Role – for a list of all reports that can be run by HR Partners, HCM Initiate...
October 28, 2021
BI Portal New Release: Notify Course Section Demand by Student Major
Available Now: New Dashboard Helps You Help Students The Notify Course Section Demand by Student Major dashboard is now available on the BI Portal. Built through the collaboration of the Report Prioritization Group (RPG), the Enterprise Data Warehouse (EDW) team, and the Enterprise Reporting Analytics (ERA) team, this new Tableau visualization is where student advisers and coordinators can use data to see which courses are in high demand. What is it? The dashboard for the Notify Course Section Demand by Student Major is a Tableau visualization that displays data related to students who have signed up to receive notifications...
Read BI Portal New Release: Notify Course Section Demand by Student Major
October 26, 2021
Coming December 1: Tableau License Fee Change
UW-IT’s current licensing fees for Tableau Desktop have not changed since 2013. Over the course of the last eight years, Tableau’s additional offerings and subscription-based model have made it necessary for UW-IT to apply an increase to this service. The fees listed below will become effective on December 1, 2021. What’s changing? Tableau Desktop License (No Tableau Prep)* New fee: $40/month (current fee: $35/month) Tableau Creator License (Tableau Desktop + Prep) New fee: $60/month (current fee: $52/month) Please be sure to notify your department’s budget administrator of this change. Since Tableau licenses renew automatically, let your budget administrator know this...
September 29, 2021
Infrastructure Upgrade and Access Change for Added Data Security
The Business Intelligence (BI) team in UW-IT Enterprise Reporting and Analytics (ERA) is completing an infrastructure upgrade. If you use reports available through BI Portal or if you partner with our team to support data tools on the BI Portal, you need to know about some of the changes we've made and how they may impact your work. 1. Increased Security for Reports Starting on October 6, to increase security, access to the ERA report server and all reports available through the BI Portal (https://biportal.uw.edu) will require you to be physically on campus or connect to UW’s network via a...
Read Infrastructure Upgrade and Access Change for Added Data Security
September 22, 2021
Release: BI Cubes Infrastructure Upgrade Saves you Time and Frustration!
UPDATE: The Business Intelligence (BI) team in UW-IT Enterprise Reporting and Analytics (ERA) has completed our cubes infrastructure upgrade. Here is what you need to know: Now when you connect to "cubes.uw.edu" you can access the following cubes: Financial Activity 2007-2021 ResearchAdminData UW Spend UW Admissions BI Usage We will be retiring our old cubes in October; currently they can still be accessed on edwbissas1.s.uw.edu server. If you connect to and query data cubes, or work on a team that partners with the BI Team to support cubes on the BI Portal, the latest upgrade brings you many benefits! Click...
Read Release: BI Cubes Infrastructure Upgrade Saves you Time and Frustration!