Implementation would occur incrementally. Given the extent of the work required in data definition, documentation and organization, support of senior executives and sufficient allocation of human resources are essential to ensure the success of the project. As the first step towards developing the EIS, Concordia has built a Data Warehouse which currently contains financial, human resources, student and academic programs data extracted from operational systems. The data in the data warehouse must be first approved by the Administrator Department , which is the departrment responsible for the management and updating data in the system, for accuracy and suitability, before it can be used for further analysis. In the second step, Concordia will incrementally expand the available information and methods to process operational data into executive information in order to build high-level, summary view for the decision maker.
Few individuals have access to information contained in the various information systems.
Information currently available through the Data Warehouse and University information systems is detailed and dynamic. It is continuously being updated to reflect ongoing operational transactions until year-end when a frozen copy of the file is being archived. As a result, comparative information needed to make consistent analysis, perform trend analysis and develop scenarios over time is not available. Requests are also increasingly being forwarded to Computing Services and the administrator departments , e.g. Office of the Registrar, Financial Services, Human Resources and Research Services. The administrator departments are not generally well equipped to respond to a large number of requests dealing with planning information.