1362 - Upgrade Business Intelligence Tool

 
Request Status Summary
Request Status In Progress
Request Detail
Requestor Name:
   Jayarama, Sriram
Origination Date:
   05/26/2023
    
Recommended Endorser:
   AOC (endorses for other communities)
Request Type: Change or Enhancement
Which Systems are affected? Data Warehouse
Other
Other affected Systems / Business Processes BIT Reporting
Business Area: Other
Communities Impacted: AOC
Supreme Court Clerks
Appellate Court Clerks
Superior Court Administrators
CLJ Managers
Juvenile Court Administrators
Impact if not Resolved: High
Impact Description:

In order to maintain and support the use of the court's self-service Business Intelligence Tool query and reporting tool, an upgrade to the Business Intelligence Tool is necessary. The existing version of this tool, version 4.2 sp09, will come to the end of its useful life in December 2024.
If the upgrade of this tool is not implemented, important data needed by the courts will not be retrieved and it will pose a significant impact on access to metrics and have a significant impact to customers' ability to access data in the data warehouse in order to make business decisions and attain statistical information (e.g. counts and trends).

What is the Business Problem or Opportunity

The current self-service reporting tool (Business Intelligence Tool – BIT) used by AOC and Washington's courts, will be out of extended software support by December 2024. A major software upgrade to Business Objects 4.3 will be required. This upgrade will completely change the court user experience and require extensive training to all court levels, updated training courses and materials, as well as the need to hire contracted technical resources with specific experience with Business Objects to implement the upgrade.


Expected Benefit:

Courts will have improved abilities to share various metrics and be able to quantitatively show the data retrieved in raw data sets and in graphical representation (e.g. bar charts and various type of graphs). The overall impact would be for courts to use this shared data in order to become more effective.

Any Additional Information:

The AOC requested $950,000 to ensure continued support for Business Objects, a valuable query tool used to access data in the Enterprise Data Warehouse (the central judicial data repository). This tool is used by courts as well as by the Administrative Office of the Courts (AOC) for reporting purposes and to fulfill data dissemination requests. This Decision Package was fully passed.

Endorsement Detail
Endorsing Committee
   AOC (endorses for other communities)
Endorser Name:
   Escudero, Arsenio
Origination Date:
   06/05/2023
Endorsing Action: Endorsed
Endorser’s Explanation and Comments

Funded by Legislature for 23-25 Biennium.

AOC Analysis Detail
Analysis Date: 06/05/2023
Request Rationale
Aligns with JIS Business Priorities, IT Strategies & Plans: Yes
Aligns with applicable policies and with ISD Standards: Yes
Breadth of Solution Benefit: Wide
Cost Estimates
Cost Benefit Analysis Complete? No
Cost to Implement? $950,000
Feasibility Study needed? No
Court Level User Group
Non-JIS
Approving Authority Administrator
Request Summary:

Business Objects, the primary tool used by AOC and the statewide court system to access data in the Enterprise Data Warehouse, the central judicial data repository, for reporting purposes and for the fulfillment of data dissemination requests. It needs critical upgrades to version 4.3 as version 4.2 will be designated “end of life” in December 2024.

Business Impacts:

Impacts trial and appellate courts by providing reliable quantitative data that can be used in analysis and be disseminated to various stakeholders when required. Courts will have improved abilities to share various metrics and be able to quantitatively show the data retrieved in raw data sets and in graphical representation (e.g. bar charts and various type of graphs). The overall impact would be for courts to use this shared data in order to become more effective.

Summary of Proposed Solution

In order to maintain and support the use of the court's self-service Business Intelligence Tool query and reporting tool, an upgrade to the Business Intelligence Tool is necessary. The existing version of this tool, version 4.2 sp09, will come to the end of its useful life in December 2024.

Proposed Solution

Consulting services for both the application and software/hardware implementation will be required with support from existing staff resources in Infrastructure Services and Enterprise Data Services to upgrade this tool.

Additional Systems Affected
Other
Communities Impacted
AOC
Supreme Court Justices
Supreme Court Clerks
Supreme Court Judicial Asst.
Appellate Court Judges
Appellate Court Clerks
Superior Court Judges
County Clerks
Superior Court Administrators
CLJ Judges
CLJ Managers
Family and Juvenile Law Judges
Juvenile Court Administrators
State Agencies
Public and Other Users
Confirmation of Endorsing Action Detail
Endorsing Committee
   AOC (endorses for other communities)
Endorser Name:
   Escudero, Arsenio
Origination Date:
   06/05/2023
Endorsing Action: Endorsed
Endorser’s Explanation and Comments

Funded by Legislature for 23-25 Biennium.

Court Level User Group Decision Detail
CLUG Non-JIS
Chair of Group No Chair Stated
Date of Decision 06/05/2023
Decision
Decision to Recommend for Approval Unamimously recommended to the approving authority
Priority Processing Status Not Prioritized
Scoring Detail
In making their decision, detailed score values were not provided by Non-JIS.
Additional Notes

Funded by Legislature for 23-25 Biennium. Is mandated.

Implementation Detail  – Superseded
Analysis Date:
Implementation Stage Authorized
Prioritization Option: Non-Prioritized
Comments:

Funded by Legislature for 23-25 Biennium. Is mandated.

Implementation Detail
Analysis Date:
Implementation Stage In Progress
Prioritization Option: Non-Prioritized
Comments:

Funded by Legislature for 23-25 Biennium. Is mandated.

 

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