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Mapping Old fields to new names – Crystal Reports

admin — Sun, 07 Jun 2009 23:49:15 +0000

Crystal reports is beautiful tool and mature product for Reporting. We are writing about its field mapping function and when do you need that?

In Crystal Reports Data source / database change can cause a mismatch of field names in reports. For example old field name “Account Number” was changed to Account_number. When Crystal reports detect this type of change you can point old report object to new database field by using mapping. Field mapping simply allows you to change the field to new one.

Basically the underlying data stays the same but mismatch error will be resolved.

How would you know that there is a field mismatch?

Field mapping function triggers whenever crystal reports detect any change and field name change and allows the users to point the old name to new field name.

An example of University of Toronto Business Intelligence (UTBI)

admin — Thu, 28 May 2009 02:12:59 +0000

This Post is about University of Toronto Business Intelligence (UTBI). University of Toronto Business Intelligence (UTBI) is a service-oriented program focused on empowering the University’s information analysts and decision-makers. We are including this in our website because we found that very help in understanding Data Mart, Data Ware House and Business intelligence concepts.

The UTBI data warehouse is a central repository of information for analytical and reporting needs at the University. It is a collection of data marts that holds information sourced from the various enterprise-wide applications, such as ROSI, HRIS, FIS, Research and DIS. These Data Marts are doing there jobs i.e focusing on their related functional area such as Human resources or specific businesses prosses( e.g enrollement analysis) .

UTBI has currently several data marts may prove helpful in answering your business question few of these are as under; Enrollement Data Mart, Human Resource Data Mart, Research data Mart, Graduate Student Financial support Data Mart, Donations and Alumni Services Data Mart,

Reporting Statistics Data Mart. UTBI has several projects under way. It is also possible to to see a pictorial overview of the data marts.

Links are as follows;

University of Toronto Business Intelligence (UTBI)
Human Resources Data model

Research Data Model
Student Income Data model

Human Resource Dashboards

admin — Wed, 27 May 2009 17:28:39 +0000

Dashboard technology has been proven to maximize an informed decision making in organizations and getting optimal value value from its data. HR Department can get great benefits by having a deep insight into how employees are contributing to the organization’s progress and what can be done to make them more successfull.

HR Professionals are involved in recruiting, to benefits management, to employee attitudes they can Track employee recruitment and attrition, Monitor benefits costs, Evaluate employee morale

Employees can get feedback about performance in a great way and keep themselves informed with corporate goals. They can adjust performance to meet goals, feel a sense of accountability, be aware of attendance patterns.

Management, Managers and supervisors can track employee progress, comparing individuals to their peers and the various teams of the organization. Some examples of metrics that can be tracked are:Performance management,Assessment of training issues,Attendance patterns