Corporate Data Warehouse Manual General Information
1. What is the Corporate Data Warehouse Page 2
2. Where to find the Corporate Data Warehouse Page 3
3. How to obtain a User Id and password for the Corporate Data Warehouse Page 5
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What is the Corporate Data Warehouse
The Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) is an exciting development in the way that Education Queensland (EQ) collects manages and analyses the wealth of information required to monitor the performance of educational service delivery. The data has been collected from a number of sources that have passed though a validation and transformation process to ensure integrity and easy analysis.
The objectives for the Corporate Data Warehouse (CDW) include:
collection, validation and linking of data from multiple source systems for the purpose of strategic analysis and reporting on EQ business performance measures for students, schools and the organisation as a whole; easy access to and interpretation of corporate data (both historical and current) for all staff (within security constraints); and provision of a data warehouse infrastructure and techniques to align CDW development with business needs.
The benefits of adopting a data warehouse approach include:
a single trusted source of EQ performance data; ability to link data sourced from different systems in order to derive previously unavailable performance measures; ability to analyse historical data no longer available in the source systems; enabling all parts of the organisation to make decisions and report on the same set of figures; controlled access to data; greater sharing of data across organisational boundaries for improved decision making; schools' ability to access data; technology capable of managing large amounts of data scalability to enable new datasets to be added; and data structured for ease of analysis instead of for operational processing.
The data warehouse should be treated as a trusted source of enterprise decision support data. To achieve this, key data from different systems will be extracted, verified, combined and transformed into suitable summary data sets that can be used to monitor/research key performance indicators requiring data from several sources.
The data warehouse is not designed to enable updating of data. It relies on the source system for accuracy, currency and completeness. The data warehouse can be useful for highlighting inaccuracies and incompleteness in source data. Strategies to improve the quality of the source data should then be implemented.
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Where to find the Corporate Data Warehouse
The Corporate Data Warehouse can be accessed via the Intranet site by using one of two available options.
Option 1
Step 1: Click on the Information Management link in the grey bar on the intranet home page
Step 2: Then click on the Corporate Data Warehouse link listed under Applications in the Schools section.
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Option 2
Step 1: When looking at the Intranet Home Page, you find the Quick links options on the left hand side of the page
Step2: Click on the CDW option from the drop down menu then Click on go and this will take you to the Corporate Data Warehouse
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How to obtain a User Id and password for the Corporate Data Warehouse
Step1: Follow instructions on where to find CDW and then click on Contact Us
Step2: Scroll down the page until you get to the information for Non-School Users and click on the link to Performance Monitoring and Reporting Branch or alternatively you can email them on [email protected] requesting access to the Corporate Data Warehouse, this email needs to come from your Supervisor, outlining the required access levels and data sets. Your password will be emailed to you once this has been approved.
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Security Levels
All graphs and reports require a User Id and password for access.
In the case of Health and Safety data, school users may only be able to view information on their own school and related Like Schools and state-wide benchmark data. Schools do not have access to WorkCover, this is to protect the privacy of individuals. Schools should contact regional office to access WorkCover information.
District and Region users will only be able to view WorkCover information on all schools in their district or region.
Your User Id determines the level of access you will be allowed.
Changing your CDW Password
A Change Password function is available to change your password.
Once the Corporate Data Warehouse webpage has opened, click on Graphs and Reports on the left hand side of the page
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This will take you to the Graphs and Reports login page.
Scroll down until you see the Changing your CDW Password information, if you select the Change Password link it will take you to the following screen.
You will be prompted to enter your User Id and current Password and then to enter your new password. You will be required to verify your new password by re-entering it in the 'Verify New Password' field. Click on the 'Change Password' button to complete the process.
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Resetting your CDW Password
Non-School Users
Non-school users should contact the Performance Monitoring and Reporting Branch if they require their password to be reset.
School Users
A Forgot Password function is available to assist those people who have mislaid or forgotten their password.
Once the Corporate Data Warehouse webpage has opened, click on Graphs and Reports on the left hand side of the page
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This will take you to the Graphs and Reports login page.
Scroll down until you see the Forgot your CDW Password information, or if you select the Forgot Password link it will take you to the following screen.
This is a brief automatic process and usually the generated password is received via email almost immediately after the process is completed.
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