An e-mail lab is being proposed for the first floor of the Hollis Building as well. Data Warehouse - the next step in administrative computing. A data warehouse is a central repository for all or significant parts of the data that GSU's various business and student information systems collect. GSU's data warehouse will be housed on an IBM RISC 6000 computer at the Computer Center. Data from various databases, tables and other sources is selectively extracted and organized on the data warehouse database for use by analytical applications and user queries.
Data warehousing emphasizes the capture of data from diverse sources for useful analysis and access.
We've been getting many requests for the installation of ReportSmith version 3 for Win95. This is a program that allows the user to design reports to get information from various databases available to the user. Under an old site-license agreement, Computer Services can install this version on your computer. However, any future releases must be purchased from the vendor. Another thing to keep in mind is that Technical Support has no one experienced with ReportSmith's functions.