Alliance 2020 is just over a month away! The Reporting and Business Intelligence community is gearing up to present attendees with a variety of RBI sessions. Check out these Technical and Reporting Track sessions!
Collaboratively exploring data requirements with stakeholders using visualizations and an agile methodology
Teaser: “Project: Late Registrant Dashboard. Questions: Who are our late registrants? What barriers are they facing? Are our communications, business practices and engagements effective?...”
Session: 6822
Presenter(s): Nischal Dangol, University of Colorado
Copresenter(s): Joey Laconte, University of Colorado
When: Monday, March 30th, 8:30-9:30 AM
Putting Technology to Work for You: Creating a Superior Student/Staff Experience
Teaser: “Student demands are constantly evolving and campus system maps are growing increasingly complex. Data and physical security are a priority.”
Session: 6871
Presenter(s): Reyn Oyadomori, Pepperdine University
Copresenter(s): Laurel Stiller, Softdocs
When: Monday, March 30th, 8:30-9:30 AM
PS Query – From the Bottom Up!
Teaser: “If you’re new to PeopleSoft query, come join us for an overview of PS Query to see what it has to offer and learn more about the tool.”
Session: 6869
Presenter(s): Dede Young, Northern Illinois University
When: Monday, March 30th, 4:15-5:15 PM
Understanding Pivot Grids (Finally!)
Teaser: “This presentation takes users through all of the steps necessary to create queries as data sources to use in pivot grids as well as…”
Session: 6512
Presenter(s): Paula McDaniel, WA State Board for Comm & Tech Coll
When: Tuesday, March 31st, 8:30-10:30 AM
Surfacing Your Enterprise System Data
Teaser: “Our student system based on Oracle’s PeopleSoft Campus Solutions (Application 9.2, Tools 8.57) has a layered approach when it comes to surfacing data.”
Session: 6702
Presenter(s): Ross Stivison, University of California, Berkeley
Copresenter(s): Marc Pechaitis, University of California, Berkeley
When: Wednesday, April 1st, 9:15-9:45 AM
Query Foundations
Teaser: “This presentation will focus on basic functions of the query tool and participants will gain hands on experience in creating and running simple queries.”
Session: 6535
Presenter(s): Amanda Taylor, Washington State University
When: Wednesday, April 1st, 9:15-11:15 AM
You also might be interested in these RBI-related sessions offered on other tracks, in order of appearance:
PS Query for Functional Users – Intermediate to Advanced (Campus Community Track)
Teaser: “Learn how to get more out of your queries by discussing some of the query functionality that UT Dallas has found to be the most helpful.”
Session: 6514
Presenter(s): Jamie Choate-Polizzi, University of Texas at Dallas
When: Monday, March 30th, 9:45-10:45 AM
Query Manager: Tips and Tricks (Public Sector Track)
Teaser: “If you’re a technical or functional user that is looking to learn some tips and tricks of Query Manager, this session is for you.”
Session: 6549
Presenter(s): Rahul Nori, State of Minnesota
When: Monday, March 30th, 9:45-10:45 AM
ALLIANCE MADE US DO IT: How a Presentation 5 Years Ago Formed Our Data Vision for OBIEE (EBS Track)
Teaser: “Five years ago the version of Caltech’s data warehouse tool was already unsupported and we had made the decision to rebuilt the data warehouse from scratch in OBIEE…”
Session: 6982
Presenter(s): Erin Lindsay, California Institute of Technology
When: Tuesday, March 31st, 8:30-9:30 AM
Financial Aid Queries for Everyday Processing (Financial Aid Track)
Teaser: “Building a query for financial aid purposes requires a knowledge of how the data flows from the ISIR to mailing the award letter.”
Session: 7012
Presenter(s): Adrian Naranjo, Central Washington University
Copresenter(s): Spencer Egbert, Central Washington University
When: Tuesday, March 31st, 8:30-9:30 AM
BI Publisher in Grants Management: PI Summary and Other Reports, from Start to Finish (Finance Track)
Teaser: “Back by popular demand and updated with all-new examples for the 2020 Alliance Conference, this deep dive will take users step-by-step through all of the details required…”
Session: 6781
Presenter(s): Christopher Pokorny, Cleveland State University
When: Tuesday, March 31st, 11:15 AM-12:15 PM
Query Row Level Security (Finance Track)
Teaser: “Western University already maintains ledger security for all end users for access to GL Inquiries and nVision reports…”
Session: 6969
Presenter(s): Albert Birch, Western University
Copresenter(s): Jessica Claeys, Western University
When: Tuesday, March 31st, 11:15 AM-12:15 PM
Advisement Drilling URL Queries, Workcenters and Graduation Tracking: Working Together for Graduation Processing (Academic Advisement Track)
Teaser: “Session attendees will learn how Penn State used delivered processes (Academic Advisement, ADB Results Table Queries with Drilling URLs, a Graduation Workcenter, Graduation Tracking)…”
Session: 6526
Presenter(s): Rhea Leydig, The Pennsylvania State University
When: Tuesday, March 31st, 1:45-2:45 PM
Easy Reporting that Puts You at the Head of the Class (Exhibitor Track)
Teaser: “What if we told you there was a quick and easy way to get all the right answeres for your ERP reporting in Excel, all at the click of a button, and all without having to get tutoring from IT?”
Session: 7216
Presenter(s): Sue Maloney, insightsoftware
When: Tuesday, March 31st, 3:00-3:30 PM
PeopleSoft Query Security on Confidential/Personal data fields (Finance Track)
Teaser: “This presentation talks about how we developed a custom tool to prevent access to confidential data like Tax Id, Bank Account Number on the PeopleSoft Query results”
Session: 7009
Presenter(s): Sachin Srivastava, University of Texas at Arlington
Copresenter(s): Venkateswar Avula, University of Texas at Arlington
When: Tuesday, March 31st, 3:00-3:30 PM
Query Based Alternative to SF External Award Feed (Financial Aid Track)
Teaser: “The delivered SF External Award Feed does not allow for reducing Financial Aid Item Type estimated values when corresponding actual values are received by Student Financials.”
Session: 6573
Presenter(s): Gabriel Stezoski, University of Pittsburg
Copresenter(s): Michelle Jackson, University of Pittsburg
When: Tuesday, March 31st, 4:15-5:15 PM
And don’t miss these sessions presented or co-presented by TRAG Reporting & Analytics Workgroup Members on a TRAG or other track!
Academic Requirements 201 (Academic Advisement Track)
Teaser: “This session will provide a deeper look at academic requirements.”
Session: 6522
Presenter(s): Dede Young, Northern Illinois University
Copresenter(s): Diane Garman, Northern Illinois University
When: Tuesday, March 31st, 8:30-10:30 AM
Now You See Me! OMC and APM at work in PeopleSoft (TRAG: Enterprise Application Monitoring)
Teaser: “With Application Performance Monitoring (APM) institutions can track the PeopleSoft system performance from the inside out. Yes, you read correctly!”
Session: 6548
Presenter(s): Longin Gogu, Lone Star College
When: Tuesday, March 31st, 9:45-10:45 AM
The Cloud will disrupt our roles, now is the time to thrive. (Student Cloud Track)
Teaser: “Now is the time to take a proactive approach at understanding how transitioning to the Cloud will fundamentally change how we as individuals do business.”
Session: 6777
Presenter(s): Lindsey Konerza, University of Minnesota
Copresenter(s): Terry Houser, University of Virginia
Ingrid Nuttall, University of Minnesota
Stu Churchill-Hoyer, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Michele Thibodeau, Butler University
When: Tuesday, March 31st, 9:45-10:45 AM
A non-expert user’s take on increasing social media engagement in today’s InstagrammingFacebookchattingTwitterverse (Constituent Experience and Advancement Track)
Teaser: “Ever wonder how you TweetTweet onInstabook, post on Facerest while Snapgramming something on LinkTube? Got those terms mixed up?”
Session: 6608
Presenter(s): Anna Kourouniotis
When: Tuesday, March 31st, 4:15-5:15 PM
It’s all Greek to me! Becoming fluent in BI Publisher. (Workshop)
Teaser: “Learning a new tool is a lot like learning a language. It might be challenging at first to recall the vocabulary or syntax. You may lose motivation early on because it feels like trying to climb a mountain.”
Session: 6543
Presenter(s): Anna Kourouniotis, Duke University
Copresenter(s): Dede Young, Northern Illinois University
When: Wednesday, April 1st, 12:00-3:15 PM
As you can see, Alliance 2020 has plenty to offer in terms of reporting and analytics! Be sure to view and add these sessions to your agenda today! See you in Philly!