Employees across campus often extract and combine data from multiple systems to obtain information needed for decision making and analysis.  The central data environment supported by IST provides integrated tools to store, transform and visualize data.  Backed by Microsoft tools, this central environment provides a data lake to store all types of data and leverages Power BI to visualize and analyze this information.   IST and a group of data stewards have been working to integrate the major information systems to bring student, financial, HR, coop and other data into the central environment and help make it more readily available while maintaining the integrity and appropriate access rights to this data.  See Data Flow from Source Systems to Reporting for a visual of the flow of data.

Find information on this site about using Power BI and about specific Power BI reports deployed through this central program.