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We have done several webinars on best practices related to data governance and data intelligence. We thought we would briefly recap these best practices regarding business glossary, data system...

In this blog post we will cover the importance of thinking small and having quick wins in your data governance (also called data intelligence) initiative so that value can be seen and achieved...

This is a different type of blog post for me. I recently reread “What’s the Future of Business – Changing the Way Businesses Create Experiences” by Brian Solis. It was written in 2013 but still...

Before you can do a data governance (or as we call it data intelligence) roadmap you need to do an assessment. But what is included in this assessment? In this blog we will cover that and what...

Data governance (or as we call it data intelligence) has many components and is not well understood by most people. It is very difficult to tackle all areas of data governance at once. And a data...

Reference data (or valid value lists) is a special type of data and is an important part of data quality and data governance (or as we call it data intelligence). Reference data lists can be used...

Definitions should eliminate confusion across the enterprise.  And they should be accessible by all that work with data.  There are two types of definitions - functional and technical.  And they...

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...

How healthy are your institution’s integrations? You probably have many integrations (and the list is probably getting longer) such as your Admissions CRM to Student Information System integration...

In a previous post we covered 5 best practices in a system integration project.  Here we will cover 6 more best practices which are:

6. Build a complete data mapping document
7. Get approval on the...