Business Intelligence & Analytics

The AAIR Business Intelligence & Analytics special interest group (SIG) began its life as the Data Warehousing SIG. It was raised as an idea in 2005 and officially formed in 2006 for university staff with an interest in data warehousing. Business Intelligence was later added to the SIG, and then in September 2015 it was agreed to add ‘Analytics’ as well. In 2019, the name of this SIG was simplified to Business Intelligence & Analytics and now has more than 200 subscribers from around 90 Australian and New Zealand universities and other organisations.

The Business Intelligence & Analytics SIG provides a forum for sharing of information and discussion about its use at tertiary education institutions—for the purpose of management information and decision making—of any of the following:

A data warehouse or similar database
Business intelligence tools
Analytics
Management information environments
Digital dashboards
Data quality frameworks and processes
Portals

Lester D’Souza

SIG Chair

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The Terms of Reference for the AAIR Data Warehousing SIG are available below.

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Terms of reference

The AAIR Data Warehousing Special Interest Group (SIG) is for university staff with an interest in data warehousing, business intelligence, management information reporting, and other databases, systems or tools used for the collection, analysis and dissemination of statistics and reports used for decision making at tertiary education institutions. The Terms of Reference are as follows:

Provide a forum for sharing of information and discussion about the use at tertiary education institutions, for the purpose of management information and decision making, of any of the following:
- A Data Warehouse or similar database
- Business intelligence tools
- Management information environments
- Digital dashboards
- Data quality frameworks and processes
- Portals

Host a mailing list to circulate information and promote sharing of information and discussion about topics of interest to the group.
Create a register of which environments and tools are used by which universities for what purposes.
Organise a workshop at least once per year with presentations on topics of interest to the group.
Encourage members to submit papers on data warehousing, business intelligence and related topics for the AAIR Annual Forum.
Encourage staff involved in data warehousing, business intelligence and related topics to become members of AAIR.
Include information about the Data Warehousing SIG on the AAIR website and in the AAIR newsletter.

Data Warehousing Surveys

AAIR has conducted two Data Warehousing surveys in previous years. You can read the results below: Data Warehousing Survey results (January 2008). View the (results) from 25 institutions. Data Warehousing Survey results (January 2006). View the (results) from 23 institutions.