Operational Manual: Executive iEnabler (Management Reports)

Introduction/Overview

The ITS Management Reports has been designed to enable Managers and Decision Makers of Higher and Further Education Institutions to easily extract summarized information from their databases that is correct, reliable, relevant and up to date.
The pre-defined reports should answer their question to make well informed strategic and management decisions. These reports must be clear in their meaning and easy to interpret, and not intimidating to the end-user. From the outset, the focus is more on concise, summarised information with the option to drill down to detailed information, should this be required. For this reason, ITS has created a number of pre-defined reports, divided into different business areas (Students,Personnel and Finance) which will enable the Executive Manager/s to obtain the required information with a click of a button without having to spend a lot of time on specifying their needs, and waiting for information from other departments if programming or development of programs is required to answer in their information requirements.

It has been developed to allow for the delivery of Enterprise Performance Management figures and statistics through either the Internet or the Intranet of an institution.

The Management Reports also makes use of the pre-defined Views and Summaries explained in the previous paragraph, but these reports have been pre-defined  as a library of reports and charts created by ITS, according to Executive Management requirements, and no system knowledge is required to interpret the data that is presented with a click of a button. Some user parameters may be required, for example the manager may be requested to enter the Year for which the information must be displayed in report format. Should the manager wish to find more detailed information, this facility is exactly the information that will appear on the Web Page; However a specific manager may wish to see the number of staff per department within a faculty, and for this he/she may wish to “drill-down” from faculty to department or vice versa for drill up hierarchy.

Note that the figures or graphs represented in the Screen shots in this document do not represent those of any particular institution, and serve merely as examples for a particular workbook.

The Systems Administrator of each institution has full control as to which of the reports will be made available for access by the users. T
The set of reports and charts available from the Management Reports have been identified as the most frequently asked reports from Managers in the HE section to date.

The Management Reports forms part of the Personnel iEnabler system, although external users of the ITS system, may also see these reports with the approval of the System owner. The hierarchy of the Management Reports in terms of the other Personnel Web systems is as follows:

Personnel iEnabler  
By Faculty/Department/Qualification m43dis_date.xlsx Dynamic    Academic Year    {SNAPPA-3} PE0021-2
Admissions vs Applications m21dis_20150226.xlsx Dynamic    Academic Year    {SNAPPA-3} PE0021-3
By Faculty m13dis_20150226.xlsx Dynamic    Academic Year    {SREG} PE0022-1
By Faculty/Department/Qualification m30dis_20150226.xlsx Dynamic    Academic Year    {SREG} PE0022-2
By Faculty/Department/Approved Qualification m31dis_20150226.xlsx Dynamic    Academic Year    {SREG} PE0022-3
By Tuition Type m32dis_20150226.xlsx Dynamic    Academic Year    {SREG} PE0022-4
By Campus/offering Type m33dis_20150226.xlsx Dynamic    Academic Year    {SREG} PE0022-5
Five Year Trend m01dis_20150226.xlsx Static    Request Number    {MISTAB-12} PE0022-6
By Ethnic Group m02dis_20150226.xlsx Static    Request Number    {MISTAB-12} PE0022-7
By Gender m03dis_20150226.xlsx Static    Request Number    {MISTAB-12} PE0022-8
By Faculty m11dis_20150226.xlsx Dynamic    AcademicYear    {SSTUD-7} PE0023-1
By Faculty/Department/Qualification m34dis_20150226.xlsx Dynamic    AcademicYear    {SSTUD-7} PE0023-2
By Faculty/Department/Approved Qualification m35dis_20150226.xlsx Dynamic    Academic Year   {SSTUD-7} PE0023-3
Trend Summary m06dis_20150226.xlsx Dynamic    Academic Year   {SSTUD-7} PE0023-4
Trend Details m36dis_20150226.xlsx Dynamic    Academic Year   {SSTUD-7} PE0023-5
Graduation Rates m20dis_20150226.xlsx Static    Request Number    {MISTAB-1} PE0022-6
Subjects Statistics Summary m18dis_20150226.xlsx Static    Request Number    {MISTAB-12} PE0024-1
Enrolment by Faculty/Department/Subject m37dis 20150226.xlsx Dynamic    Academic Year    {SSTUDY-21} PE0024-2
Subject Enrolment by Campus/Offering Type m38dis_20150226.xlsx Dynamic    Academic Year    {SSTUDY-21} PE0024-3
By Faculty m19dis_20150226.xlsx Static    Request Number    {MISTAB-14} PE0025-1
By Faculty/Department m39dis_20150226.xlsx Static    Request Number    { MISTAB-8} PE0025-2
By Residence m40dis_20150226.xlsx Dynamic    Academic Year    {SREG-4} PE0026-1
By Ethnic Group m12dis Dynamic    N/A    {PBOP-1} PE0003-1
By Gender m09dis_ Dynamic    N/A    {PBOB-1} PE0003-2
By Rank m05dis_ Dynamic    N/A    {PBOP-2} PE0003-10
By Appoinment Type m07dis Dynamic    N/A    {PBOP-2} PE0003-11
By SCO m08dis_ Dynamic    N/A    {PBOP-2} PE0003-15
By SCO and Ethnic Group m10dis_ Dynamic    N/A    {PBOP-1/2} PE0003-16
By Stats Category m14dis_ Dynamic    N/A    {PBOP-2} PE0003-20
 
Income Statement m04dis_ Static    Request Number    {MISTAB-10} PE0004-1
Balance Sheet m04dis_ Static    Request Number    {MISTAB-10} PE0004-2


Each of the folders contains a number of pre-defined workbooks customised for the Manager’s convenience.
For technical users the hierarchy can be seen from the ITS menu options stated below where function represents the menu option and the parent business function represents the higher menu:


Logging onto the system for the first time
1.    Enter your Personnel (Staff) Number in the Personnel Number block
2.    Enter your PIN (Personal Identification Number).
3.    Click ‘Login’
4.    You should now have the Personal Details Screen with your personal details displayed.
5.    Click ‘Change your PIN’
6.    Type in a ‘new PIN’.  Confirm by re-typing in the ‘Confirm PIN’ box and click ‘OK’.  The system will display Information   PIN Updated.  Click ‘OK’.


Example:

Example of ...Loggin in



iEnabler Screen Layout
The left hand panel on the page displays Business Functions and Business Processes as defined by the menu structure in set up in {PWEBM-1} and {PWEBM-2}.
Once familiar with the set up as done in ITS, and having logged onto the iEnabler Web Page, the following  screen will be displayed:

Business function: Is the parent record of a Business Process; A Business Function could also be a Business Process if this record is linked to a higher Business Function, E.g. The folder “Student” is the Business Process of the Business Function of the folder “Executive iEnabler” and at the same time a Business Function for “Student Applications”. “By Faculty, By Faculty/Qualification” is a Business Process of the Function “Student Applications” . Each Business Process is driven by an Executive iEnabler Report.


Example:

Example of ...business untis



History of Changes

Date System Version By Whom Job Description
26-Feb-2015 v03.0.0.0 Charlene van der Schyff t205595 New manual for Executive iEnabler now changed to Management Reports. See T203445
11-JUN-2018 v04.1.0.0 Melanie Zeelie t227868 Correction changed where referral to MISTAB-8 changed to 12