Administrative Reporting and Analytics Program (ARAP)/Harvard Analytics and Reporting Tool (HART) Update

May 13, 2021
Harvard Analytics and Reporting Tool (HART), powered by OBI, includes the Accounts Receivables, CAPS, Cash Management, Chart of Accounts, CSMA, Financials, Grants Management, Procure to Pay, Travel & Expense, and User Security folders. 
 

HART by the Numbers for April 2021

  • 1: Average query time to run in seconds
  • 1,235: Distinct Users logged into HART during this period
  • 102,901 queries were run in April

HART May Release

The next monthly HART release will begin on Friday, May 28, 2021 at 7 pm.  

The release is expected to be complete by 6 am Saturday, May 29, 2021.

Check out the HART 3 Month Release Plan and Backlog wiki page for details of the dashboard changes included in this release.

Administrative Reporting and Analytics Program FY21 Quarter Four Priorities (April-June 2021)

Here are the program’s priorities for the remainder of this fiscal year:

  • Self-Service Capability: To enable the rollout of self-service reporting, design and implement security access for OAS tools – ability to create new reports, connect to data sources or import spreadsheets, share content with other users, etc.
  • Content Delivery: Complete the initial version of the Salary Wage Flux reporting and roll out to initial limited audience.
  • HART: Stabilize new OAS Platform and resolve system glitches. Support monthly releases to deploy enhancements.
  • Automated Deployments: To enable faster delivery of reporting content to the community, we will architect, design, build, test, and rollout a CI/CD process. This will enable more frequent releases than monthly.
  • OAS Enhancements: To provide full capabilities and prepare for migration and consolidation of other OBI environments, enable additional features on the OAS platform such as the email gateway.
  • OAS Upgrade: The latest version of OAS, released in March, has lot of new features and bug fixes. The team will assess the upgrade of OAS to the new 5.9 version. Upgrade to the latest version in Q4 only if the complexity/impact is minimal and the risk is low to ensure stable year end reporting.

Upcoming HART Webinars

As the fiscal year end period approaches, please join us in early June for two important HART Webinars:

HART Fiscal Year End Webinar

This annual webinar focuses on tips and tricks for making the most use of HART during the fiscal year end. Topics include understanding how to use the time period prompts found on the Transaction Listing dashboards to locate prior and new fiscal year entries, specific dashboard recommendations for getting results quickly, and using other dashboards found in the FIN-Core and other folders to get the results you need at the most critical reporting time of the year.

HART Tools Refresher

This webinar provides reminders about basic HART functionality including running a dashboard, including, excluding, and moving columns; sorting; adding filters ("moving to prompts”), layout options ("moving to sections"), customizations, bookmarks, printing and exporting.  Recommended for new employees or current employees wanting to get the most out of using HART dashboards.

Both sessions will be recorded.

Please visit the ARAP wiki site for more information about the project and please do not hesitate to contact the ARAP team at any time with questions you may have.