Quick Start

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Monday 3/31/2025: Due to planned maintenance at the Data Center, data in Cal Answers are from the respective source systems as of Friday 3/28/2025. Regular processing will resume this evening.

Quick Start Guide to Using Dashboard Reports

Welcome to Cal Answers

Cal Answers makes it easy for the campus to access information from multiple campus systems on a range of subjects, including finance, payroll, PI portfolio, human resources, curriculum, student applicants, and student demographics and outcomes. With the Cal Answers dashboards, you can quickly locate reliable consistent answers to critical questions.

Cal Answers Subject Areas, Dashboards and Reports

Within each subject area, there are dashboards. The dashboards use a set of data to provide multiple reports, each with a different focus. These dashboard reports make it quick and easy for you to get answers for the most frequently used analyses.

Explore the dashboards by subject area.

Ad Hoc Analysis

The Cal Answers dashboard reports are a quick and easy way to extract the most frequently requested data from Berkeley’s data warehouse. However, there will be times when you have a data need that cannot be fulfilled from the dashboard reports. For example, you might need to combine columns from different data sources or create new columns to segment and summarize your data. In these cases, you can use the ad hoc functionality to create a unique query and report.

Another Data Reporting Resource: Our Berkeley

At UC Berkeley, our teaching provides a foundation and launching point for some of the most extraordinary students anywhere. Our groundbreaking research continually expands the boundaries of human knowledge and possibility. For 150 years, we’ve served the state of California, the nation, and the world as an engine of social mobility and economic value. We do all this on a scale equal to few and at a level of excellence surpassed by none.

The information on Our Berkeley distills the tens of thousands of stories that play out every day in Berkeley’s teaching, research, and public service. We use it to track our aspirations, improve our operations, and find new ways to change the world. This is Our Berkeley.