Explore and Analyze
Find, request, and view reports using modern business intelligence tools
EDBI helps Rice teams apply modern business intelligence tools to their reporting needs when departments may not have the time, capacity, or specialized reporting support to build and maintain dashboards on their own. Our team manages reports in both Tableau and Power BI, helps departments request access to existing reports, and partners with teams to build new reports around specific operational questions.
Choose EDBI-curated data from the Enterprise Data Platform
Start with an existing curated dataset, or bring in your own data when the work requires it. EDBI will help your team define the KPIs, filters, and reporting story so the report becomes a maintained resource instead of another process you rebuild every week, month, or year.
Request a Report| Data source | Data available |
|---|---|
| Slate | Admissions and recruitment data, including prospects, applicants, applications, decisions, communications, events, visits, and custom populations. |
| Qualtrics | Survey data, including surveys, questions, responses, contact lists, distributions, panels or directories, and workflow metadata. |
| CourseLeaf | Curriculum and catalog data, including courses, descriptions, programs, degree requirements, catalog pages, course lists, and plan-of-study grids. |
| Banner | Core SIS and administrative data, including students, applicants, registration, enrollment, courses, sections, terms, grades, financial aid, billing, HR, and finance. |
| Cayuse | Research administration data, including proposals, routing and approvals, awards, subawards, protocols, certifications, compliance, and project teams. |
| Interfolio | Faculty data, including profiles, appointments, activity reporting, CV data, reviews, promotion and tenure cases, hiring, and scholarly work. |
| EAB Navigate | Student success data, including advising appointments, notes, alerts, cases, referrals, check-ins, campaigns, attendance, progress reports, and enrollments. |
| Academic Analytics | Faculty and research activity data, including publications, citations, grants, awards, collaborations, faculty profiles, and benchmarking metrics. |
| Destiny | Continuing education and non-credit data, including courses, sections, registrations, learners, instructors, payments, and program enrollments. |
| Homebase | Workforce scheduling data, including employees, schedules, shifts, time clocks, timesheets, availability, labor costs, and team communications. |
| HubSpot | CRM and marketing data, including contacts, companies, deals, tickets, forms, emails, lists, campaigns, web activity, and engagement history. |
| Ad Astra | Space and course scheduling data, including rooms, buildings, sections, meetings, events, utilization, academic schedules, and optimization metrics. |
Your role as a report viewer
You do not need to build a dashboard to benefit from one. As a viewer, the practical skills are knowing where to find the report, how to filter it, how to check what data you are looking at, and how to explain what you found.
When reports are available to your team, answers are easier to find, meetings can move faster, and follow-up questions can be explored without starting over.
Find
Know whether your report lives in Power BI, Tableau, a shared app, or an EDBI dashboard location.
Filter
Apply filters, slicers, tabs, and visual selections so you are looking at the right slice of information.
Check
Look for refresh dates, selected filters, metric definitions, and audience limits before presenting findings.
Share
Use report links, exports, and screenshots in ways that match the report audience and data use expectations.
What do you need to do next?
Access an existing report
There are existing report communities across campus. If you know the report, dashboard, site, or business area, request access and include the reason your team needs it.
Request Report AccessLearn how to view reports
Start with viewer training if you need to open reports, use filters, interpret dashboard pages, export carefully, or present what you found.
Power BI Viewer TrainingCreate a curated report
If your team needs a shared view around a specific business question, EDBI can help define the audience, data source, measures, filters, and delivery path.
Request a Curated ReportChoose your reporting tool
Data@Rice supports both Power BI and Tableau for visualizing data and viewing reports. Start with the tool your report already uses, or use these pages to compare the available training paths.
Power BI
Use Power BI training for viewer skills, creator training, dashboards, reports, and Microsoft 365 reporting workflows.
Open Power BI TrainingTableau
Use Tableau resources for Tableau Server, report interaction, report access, creator licenses, and Tableau Desktop or Prep training.
Open Tableau Training