IData Insights

Employees spend a great deal of time searching for information.  One tool that organizations must have to save employee time is a business glossary which contains the business terms that employee...

Integration between data systems is a key part of data management.  As more data systems are used in an organization, system integrations are becoming even more critical.  IData’s staff is expert...

Nearly every organization has begun to use some software-as-a-service, where data originates, is processed and frequently stored in the cloud (or, as one of our clients likes to say, "on somebody...

Data governance allows for better decision making.  But there are many questions related to data governance that should be answered.  Not all at once.  We thought we would gather questions...

Some organizations lose momentum with their data governance initiative.  In this blog post, we’ll mention some of the reasons to restart your data governance initiative.

A few comments first. ...

IData was at the Educause conference in October, 2019, where Educause presented its top ten IT priorities for 2020, based on its research and membership survey. For the past several years, data...

Data governance consists of many components including data system inventory, data request, data stewardship and data quality.  We have blog posts on the resources (blog posts, videos, recorded...

Data stewardship is an important part of data governance and thus an important part of the success of the organization.  A key part of data governance is helping people and the data stewards are...

To have successful data governance you need to have data stewardship. And for data stewards to be successful you need to provide them with the proper knowledge and resources. The more successful...

By now you've decided that data governance is a good idea for your organization. You want to use organizational data to drive better decisions, and to better understand the effect of actions...