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Upcoming Changes to Data Infrastructure

Pitt IT Analytics is actively building a modern data lake and lakehouse (i.e. data warehouse) hosted in AWS, which should impact only users with a database account.

Currently, data from the Student, Employee, and GL marts is served to the campus community from our on-premise Oracle data warehouse. Users with a database account and an appropriate VPN role can connect directly to the data warehouse to retrieve data with SQL.

For more information, please visit the Analytics Modernization page.

Data Available for All

Through the University’s Federated Authorization process, the following data sources are available for connection via Tableau data sources and dashboards, Cognos reports and query packages, and via direct SQL access.

Specialized Data

The following data sources are currently available as part of an existing dashboard, or via special request/use case. For more information on these data sources, please contact the Pitt IT Helpdesk.

  • PERIS

  • Concur

  • Insite

  • RMS

  • Suitable/Outside the Classroom Curriculum

  • Salesforce

  • Faculty Information System

Planned Changes to Data Infrastructure

Currently, data from the Student, Employee, and GL marts is served to the campus community from our on-premise Oracle data warehouse. Users with a database account and an appropriate VPN role can connect directly to the data warehouse to retrieve data with SQL.

Beginning in 2022 Pitt IT Analytics began work on a modern data lake and lakehouse (i.e. data warehouse) hosted in AWS, using AWS’s Redshift database. While the underlying database systems are changing, the structure of the marts will remain the same, allowing users who have existing queries or reports to repoint them to the new location with minimal rework.

For more information, please visit the Analytics Modernization page.

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Access to Analytics and Reporting Tools

  • Tableau Desktop and Tableau Server - please visit Tableau page for information on acquiring Tableau

  • Cognos - Users who have requested and been granted access to the Student Mart, Employee Mart, or GL Mart listed above automatically have access to existing reports and ad hoc report creation capability in Cognos.

  • Oracle Analytics Cloud - please visit https://prism.pitt.edu/oracle-analytics-cloud-oac/ for information on access to OAC.