Data Warehousing in Universities

I was doing some research for a demo for a local University, and ran across this study. It has a ton of information on adoption rates of Data Warehouse efforts broken down by institution tyoe and size.

For example, despite that 75% of institutions either have one or are planning one, only 10% report their data warehouse includes data from more than 3 applications. Most popular dimensions? Student, followed by Financial, followed by Human Resources, with Aid, Facilities, and Grants coming next.

Alot of insight here.

Next couple of days might be exciting where I live (in Birmingham, Alabama). Hurricane Ivan is planning to wipe out the whole state. The Governor has closed an interstate, making all the lanes go North to speed up evacuations, which I find pretty cool.