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Information Technology Strategic Plan

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Contents  IT Strategic Plan (pdf)  Overview  Message from the CIO  Executive Summary  Ohio State's Information Technology Vision  What Ohio State Needs: Critical Success Factors  Strategic Initiative: Data Warehouse  Implementation  Conclusion  Appendix A: Project Participants  Appendix B: The Planning Process  Appendix C: Current State Analysis Details  Appendix D: Current State and Academic Plan  Appendix E: Technology Days Details  Appendix F: Focus Group Discussion Details  Appendix G: Future State Emerging Themes  Appendix H: Gap Analysis Details  Appendix I: Strategic Initiatives Details  Appendix J: Strategic Initiatives Funding

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Data Warehouse  Strategic Initiative

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Summary
The answer to complex administrative questions often requires the analysis of information housed in numerous administrative data sources throughout the university. An enterprise data warehouse would integrate these multiple data sources to provide a holistic informational view of the institution. Such a storehouse of information will enable the academic community to quickly and easily access information that can be used to anticipate and respond to the constantly evolving needs of students and institutional stakeholders and supply accurate and manageable information for colleges and departments.

Full Description

Develop an enterprise data warehouse using currently available central data.

The answer to complex administrative questions often requires the analysis of information housed in numerous administrative data sources throughout the university. An enterprise data warehouse integrates these multiple data sources to provide a holistic information view of the institution, enable collaborative decision-making, limit proliferation of duplicate local databases and spreadsheets of questionable accuracy, and facilitate easy and timely access through user-friendly tools for data analysis and reporting.

This initiative provides for the university to build such a storehouse of information, which will enable the academic community to quickly and easily access information that can be used to anticipate and respond to the constantly evolving needs of students and institutional stakeholders; supply accurate and manageable information for colleges and departments; encourage greater use of BRIO reporting tools; improve planning and decision making; and better inform statewide decision makers and the general public.

Benefits

• Enable collaborative decision-making
• Limit proliferation of duplicate local databases and spreadsheets of questionable accuracy
• Facilitate quick, easy, and timely access through user-friendly tools for data analysis and reporting
• Encourage greater use of time line reporting tools
• Improve planning and decision making
• Better inform statewide decision makers and the general public

Proposed Leadership

• Office of Academic Affairs
• - Chief Information Officer
• Colleges/Regionals
• Departments
• Office of Business and Finance
• Office of Undergraduate Studies
• Institutional Research and Planning

Metrics

• Use of reports that deliver information when and where needed in an easy and accurate format
• Increased number of departments using the data warehouse to obtain information

Estimated Investments/Potential Funding

• $1M cash
• $600,000 annual rate
• New funds

Recent Actions

• Reallocated $250,000 of university funds to the Data Warehouse project
• CIO received $100,000 cash in FY04 new funding for the Data Warehouse project
• Hired a Data Warehouse program manager to oversee the current Course Analytics initiative sponsored by the Office of Undergraduate Studies and initiated a 2-3 year strategic planning process for developing the Enterprise Data Warehouse

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