The Data Analytics and Technical Advisory Group (DATAGroup) is a team of subject matter experts in both finance and technology within UW Finance, Planning and Budgeting, dedicated to curating and managing financial reporting solutions for UW Academy. The team also specializes in providing data analytics, technical solutions, and consultation services to its customers across UW Academy. DATAGroup supports a broad array of needs, including data analysis, ad-hoc analysis, data queries, enterprise reporting, financial data cubes, data visualization, and dashboards.
DATAGroup ensures:
- A streamlined intake and triage process that reduces redundancy and prioritizes enterprise-level solutions.
- Efficient report development, with skilled oversight of tool selection, user requirement translation, and UAT coordination.
- Cross-functional collaboration with UW-IT, Business Process Owners, and UW Medicine, ensuring that all enterprise reporting aligns with Workday Guardrails and the Enterprise Finance Reporting Strategy.
- Consistent and transparent governance and metadata management, making financial reports discoverable, well-documented, and secure.
- Serving all three UW Campuses, Central Administrative Units, Academic Schools and Colleges (including individual departments and customers) as well as partnering with UW Medicine to develop enterprise-wide solutions.
