No one can argue that the amount of data at a higher education institution is increasing - and it is located both on premise and in the cloud. The number of types of systems is increasing. In...
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February 21, 2018
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Brenda Reeb
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Admissions,
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February 20, 2018
By
Brian Parish
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Data governance needs to provide trust in the data for it to be successful. Organizations need to trust their data so that they can make effective decision making. But building trust is not easy. It...
February 19, 2018
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Brenda Reeb
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governance,
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It is critical to know where your data resides. Therefore, it is necessary to inventory all of the data systems used at the organization. This post discusses what to include in an inventory. The...
February 18, 2018
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Brenda Reeb
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governance,
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There are many ways to approach data governance (or as we call it data intelligence) at an organization. This post lists the primary approaches and provides a list of items to consider when selecting...
February 17, 2018
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Brenda Reeb
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higher,
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intelligence
Building a data system inventory is necessary, but not easy. This post describes the 8 steps we recommend when building your data system inventory at your organization.
February 16, 2018
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Jim Walery
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This blog post will cover the benefits of having an inventory of your data systems at your organization (such as a higher education institution). Part of the knowledgebase for data governance (also...
February 15, 2018
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Brenda Reeb
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Implementing effective reporting at any organization is not easy (including higher education institutions). This post outlines the barriers to effective reporting and provides solutions to eliminate...
February 14, 2018
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Brian Parish
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ROI,
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In this post we review, from our experience and knowledge, various points in making the case for pragmatic data governance (or data intelligence) return on investment (ROI). Good data governance will...
February 14, 2018
By
Jim Walery
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We were searching the web recently and came across this oldie but goodie survey by the Higher Education Data Warehousing (HEDW) forum (www.hedw.org) titled “2017 HEDW Survey of Top 10 Issues”....
We’re a big fan of Dataversity (www.dataversity.org) which provides data education for business and IT professionals. We came across their “Data Governance Trends in 2018” article, dated January 24,...
Unsure of where your organization is in the data governance (data intelligence) process?
Then ask and answer the following questions:
At the end of last year, we attended a regional Institutional Research (IR) conference and sat in on a discussion group regarding data governance (data intelligence) challenges. We loved the great...
February 12, 2018
By
Jim Walery
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The American Council of Education (ACE) came out with a brief, titled “The Data-Enabled Executive: Using Analytics for Student Success and Sustainability”, to increase data-informed decision making...