• To create the data warehouse supporting the decision support system, defined priorities will extract data periodically from multiple sources located throughout all departments within your school system.
  
  
• Pre-defined algorithms are used to synthesize and save decision support metrics from the extracted data. EDSL provides tools (customized views) that help with searches through the EDSL data.
  
  
• EDSL formats data and delivers reports by extracting and analyzing data sets based on query criteria defined by the user.
  
  
• Data in EDSL can be defined and formatted by business stewards and subject matter experts representing all business areas and departments throughout your school system.