Getting Started

USU Discovery Data Hub provides the ability to create and customize reports (i.e. PDF documents) and dashboards the way you want, filled with customized data that you need. Schedule your own tasks to collect data from multiple different sources, including SQL-Server, OBDC, Excel, Active Directory, Microsoft Graph API and other sources. Each task execution creates a new table or updates existing ones within USU Discovery Data Hub’s result database. The tables are filled with the data collected from your specified query. This data can then be used by binding it to the web report- and dashboard-tool provided by USU Discovery Data Hub. Further details about task scheduling and defining queries are given in the section Tasks.

Dashboards are a simple way to organize and manage multiple charts that are bound to the underlying data stored in USU Discovery Data Hub’s result database. Dashboards contain one or more dashboard items that give you an overview of the dimensions and metrics you care about most. Reports cover a wide range of topics, but usually focus on transmitting information with a clear purpose. The transmission of information is supported by the reporting-tool through a rich set of layouting tools that meet business needs.