Vendor selected for Finance/HR data warehouse project

The Division of Business and Financial Affairs at Western Washington University has announced the selection of a vendor for the Finance/HR data warehouse project.

The successful vendor is Millennium Computer Systems, based in Victoria, B.C. During the summer, Western will be installing Millennium's FAST suite of reporting tools, a user-friendly turnkey system used in universities and colleges in Canada and the United States.

A data warehouse is a central repository, or storehouse, for data that an enterprise's various business systems collect. At WWU, data from Banner and other sources is selectively extracted and organized in the data warehouse for access and analysis purpose. The aim of the Finance/HR data warehouse project is to acquire a more user-friendly query/reporting tool to interface with one or more Banner modules, including Finance, Human resources, Budget, and, potentially, Student Services. This data warehouse will provide a single source of data for end-users to expediently track, manage and analyze their information. This new tool will become one of the campus standards for reports.

Work will commence on the implementation plan and training schedule once the contract with Millennium is signed on July 8. For more information on this project, including a list of frequently asked questions about the project, visit the data warehouse project website.