IData Insights

Data quality is an important piece to data governance (data intelligence) and thus important for organizations including higher education institution. During our various webinars and blog posts we...

Data quality is an important component of data governance and data intelligence at higher education institutions and organizations. Data quality includes people, processes and content. This blog post...

Who owns the data at organizations and higher education institutions? Information Technology (IT) Department or the specific functional department like Admissions, Human Resources, Institutional...

Data quality is a key component of data governance (also called data intelligence). This post lists impacts of poor quality data and identifies sources of poor quality data. If you can’t get traction...

In an earlier post we covered components of a data quality program, data quality rules and data quality assessments. The last post in this Data Quality series recommends a process to address data...

Data governance (data intelligence) is an organizational priority and it is critical to give all employees the resources and training to achieve this priority as soon as they walk in the door.

The...

In an earlier post we covered components of a data quality program and data quality rules.  Today we want to discuss data quality assessment or measurement.  

So, you don’t trust your data. Well, you need to do something about it. You need to create a culture for having trusted data and have effective data governance (also called data intelligence) in...

In an earlier post we described the components of a data quality program. Today we will discuss one of those components - data quality rules and a catalog to organize the rules. A data quality rule...

Data governance or data intelligence at an organization is an on-going activity and like all major activities, needs buy-in from above for it to be successful. Since data governance requires input...

Data quality is critical at organizations such as universities. This post, one in a series on data quality, introduces data quality programs. Learn about the tasks involved and the benefits of a data...

Data Governance and data intelligence is about best-practices designed to help people access, understand, connect, and effectively use your organization’s data across all systems.

Data Governance and data intelligence is about best-practices designed to help people access, understand, connect, and effectively use your organization’s data across all systems.

Data Governance (also referred to as data intelligence) is about best-practices designed to help people access, understand, connect, and effectively use your organization’s data across all systems....

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European Union (EU) law that took effect on May 25, 2018. This regulation provides greater protection to an individual’s personal information and...

A data dictionary is a repository of definitions of the data you use to make decisions at your organization. This post will suggest, gathered from our experience, the preferred way to build your data...

There are many paths to create data governance (data intelligence) content for organizations such as higher education institutions. Creation of the path should be determined by institution...

In higher education there are many types of content for data governance (also called data intelligence). This blog post will mention the 12 areas of content that we have learned about from our...

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...

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...

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...

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...