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Department Of Psychology, Neuroscience & Behaviour

BI Tool

The BI Portal is a centrally managed, standardized set of reporting dashboards and analytics based on a trusted data source accessible by the university community in accordance with polices of security and privacy. The BI tool facilitates enhanced user presentation with “slice and dice” and “drill down” options built by a core IRA team working collaboratively with UTS and business analysts from Finance, Human Resources, Research Administration, and Campus Solutions and in consultation with business users and stakeholders.

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  • If you are not on campus, make sure your VPN is turned on. Users not connected to the McMaster network cannot access BI.
  • Navigate to https://bi.mcmaster.ca/
  • Each BI user will have an AzureAD account. Click the ‘AzureAD’ button to sign in. Do not enter your credentials in the User Name/Password prompt.
  • If you are already signed in to another McMaster system, you will automatically be signed in to BI. If you are not signed in to another McMaster system, you will be prompted for your email and password and asked to complete a 2-Step verification.
    • BI Log In – Link
    • BI Access Form – Link
    • BI Training Log In – Link
  • As part of McMaster’s Oracle roadmap to support PeopleSoft and Business Intelligence reporting, IRA and UTS have been partnering to migrate components of McMaster’s Oracle BI platform from local/on-premises infrastructure to Oracle Cloud infrastructure.

Overall, the look and functionality of the BI Dashboards will remain the same. While the overall impact of this change will be low for users, there are a couple items we would like to notify you about:

  • Sign in will use your McMaster email (instead of Mac ID)
  • Unfortunately, any saved customizations cannot be migrated to the Cloud environment, and you will need to set up and resave your customizations once we are live in the Cloud environment (June 19, 2023). We recommend creating a list of your current saved customizations, and taking screenshots if you have customized report formatting saved, to make this process easier.