Research Data Mart in an Academic System

Data warehousing is an activity that is getting more and more attention in several contexts. Also Universities are adopting data warehousing solutions for business intelligence purpose. In these contexts, there are specific aspects to be considered, such as the Didactics and the Research evaluation. Indeed, these are the main factors affecting the importance and the quality level of every University. In this paper, we present the architecture of a Business Intelligence system in an academic organization and we illustrate the design of a data mart devoted to the evaluation of the Research activities.