Results may be saved locally, or on a file server, as text. Alternatively, they may be pasted into word processors or uploaded as Excel spreadsheets for further manipulation. The Departmental financial data is prepared in Excel format using the 'Business Objects' end-user reporting tool. Netscape was already available, and htgrep is public domain software, so this development has benefited from extremely low development costs and rapid delivery times. Savings both in time and resource have resulted from requests for information no longer having to be hard-coded, printed, and distributed.
Access is campus-restricted.
To view, please call me on 01274-235014. We are proud of this very important contribution to raising the standard of procurement and the improvement of procurement management information to our staff, students and wider procurement community. The Warehouse is implemented in OpenIngres via ICE and refreshed nightly. The Web interface gives access to data which can be displayed both on screen or downloaded in CSV format for importing into local applications. Strict access controls are put on both the data and the Web page from which it is accessed.