NFIC Training Workshop (Training)

Company Confidential

 

1.  

 

1.  

1. Rationale for New Reporting Framework

• •Replacing an aging, expensive, proprietary system based on Actuate with newer, cheaper open source tools 

• • •Licensing costs for Actuate were prohibitive 

  • •Adding new reports was difficult and error prone 

• •Current closed architecture was not flexible 

• • •Portions of the current reports and SQL behind the reports was tailored to the capabilities of Actuate rather than streamlined for NFIRS 

  • •Open source report generator (JasperReports) is embedded in an application that is much more “NFIRS-aware” 

• •Moving to new, faster hardware to which the current licenses will not transfer 

 

1.  

• •There are screenshots of this demo in the appendix of this handout 

 

1.  

• •Retrieve, change, and re-submit previous reports 

• • •Will be live when the system is released 

• •Online Analytical Processing (OLAP) Cubes 

• • •Currently, the reporting database is almost a mirror of production, but going forward, it will be optimized on the server side for reporting  

  • •Data cubes (dimensions) 

• • • •Better organization for reporting 

• • • • •Data ordered by day, month, quarter, year 

      • •FDID, groups and states 

• • •Develop pivot tables and “measures” for commonly derived data 

• • • •Pre-compute items such as day of week, individual arrival (elapsed) time, average arrival times, incident key fields (as an aggregate) 

 

1.  

• •Many more module fields available for filters 

• • •Almost all module fields available for most reports such as zip codes, street names, personnel names, person involved names, shift, alarms, etc.  

  • •Any module field can be made available as a filter so long as it doesn’t otherwise invalidate the report (e.g., Won’t be able to select mutual aid types for the Mutual Aid Incidents report) 

  • •Additional “fields” such as last-saved date and created-by name 

     

 

1.  

• •More options for the filter fields 

• • •OR-ing allows for multiple text line input (for making lists of names, streets, zip codes, coded-fields, etc.)  

  • •“Wildcarding” of text fields (starts with, ends with and contains) 

  • •Case sensitive and case insensitive searches 

  • •AND-ing and OR-ing of most filters as well as NOT 

• •Saving of partial templates of reports and report filters 

• •Textual explanation of the ad-hoc filters and groups as they are being constructed 

 

1.  

• •New reports (partial list):  

• • •Fire Dept’s identified by vendor software used. 

  • •Wildland fire report summarizing acres burned from both fire and wildland modules. 

  • •Reporting on same FDID activity over multiple years. (Essentially a “same-store sales” report, but for fire dept’s - compares activity to the same month of previous year to indicate trends.) 

  • •Statewide reporting status level (which is currently available only at the US level) to show amount of data reported and released in the national DB by FDID 

  • •Various data quality reports (e.g., large dollar loss, response time) 

 

1.  

• Exporting/Sharing report templates & filters 

• • Initial implementation may be a simple export to file/import from file scheme 

  • Online sharing with library of templates and filters published by NFIRS program office, state program office and on down to a dept 

• Scheduled reports 

• • Reports can be scheduled to run daily, weekly, monthly and yearly with parameterized date fields for from/to dates. 

  • Parameterization of other fields such as a list of FDIDs or groups (or lists of lists)  

 

1.  

• We would like to hear from you concerning: 

• • Reports that you and your departments need that are currently not available to you 

  • Which fields you and your departments need most (or other data in the national DB you would like to be able to select incidents on) 

  • Any other concerns regarding the new reporting system 

• Send email to: Dave Marron at david.marron@associates.dhs.gov 

 

1.  

 

1.  

 

1.  

 

1.  

 

1.  

 

1.  

 

1.  

 

File Type	application/vnd.ms-powerpoint
File Title	Presentation title slide - 42 pt Times New Roman, White
Subject	2004 FDIC Presentation
Author	William Troup
Last Modified By	Administrator
File Modified	2007-11-28
File Created	2003-08-19