The Warehouse allows faculty, staff, experienced system developers, and institutional researchers to perform direct queries on administrative University data. You can access information about a collection and general information about Penn's Data Warehouse from each data collection's home page. Data collection information includes the collection's refresh schedule, data diagrams, table and data element documentation, data training, and data security. Cross collections are available for some data collections. A simple search feature is available on the General Ledger collection's home page.
General information includes information that is pertinent to all the data collections.
This includes basic information about data base queries, historical information about Penn's data warehouse , the access request forms you must submit for authorization to use the Warehouse, query tools used at Penn to retrieve data, training , support services available for help, general information about Warehouse security , and updates to the warehouse .