The BI suite has been in use for a number of years, and over time the number of Finance reports built by multiple users and the number of Finance-related universes available have increased to a point where it has become difficult to manage, and also difficult to ensure the accuracy of the BI outputs.  It was recognised that a number of improvements could be made to increase user confidence in the BI suite, in terms of confidence both in the users’ own ability to use the suite correctly, and confidence that the correct data is being returned by the reports.

This project was initiated to address a number of items, relating to the number of available Finance BI universes, access to universes, associated rules & permissions and BI reports.  A number of the enhancements to be delivered by this project were already raised as issues in JIRA from projects FIN109 (System Accounting Section (SAS) Essential Enhancements) and FIN112 (Strategic financial review).  c.33 days of development effort had been spent on these JIRAs, which it had been agreed would be charged to this project.