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Levels of Adoption of Data Governance

Management at your organization might have the assumption that data governance creates a lot of extra work. That is not a totally false assumption. There is effort necessary for data governance and...

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My Small Marketing Data Governance Journey

This is a different kind of blog post for me. I feel that every person in an organization that works with data (on that is almost everyone) is part of the data governance team. This blog post will...

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Apply Data Governance Best Practices to Technology Projects

Let's discuss some ways that you can apply data governance best practices to your technology project and in an efficient way. Technology projects could include conversion to a new ERP solution,...

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Survey Resources to Help You

When an organization performs a survey (such as internal ones to employees or external ones to clients) they are more beneficial if they are tied to their data governance and data intelligence...

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Survey Best Practices

This blog post will discuss best practices when creating, monitoring, and reviewing a survey, either an internal survey to employees of your company, or to customers of your organization or to...

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Data Governance / Data Intelligence Best Practices Recap

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...

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Focus on Data Governance Quick Wins to Demonstrate Value and Gain Momentum

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...

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Data to Return on Investment for Organization Success

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...

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What's Included in a Data Governance Assessment

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 should...

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Why a Data Governance Roadmap is Important

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...

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Benefits and Best Practices of Reference Data Management

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 in...

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Best Practices for Functional and Technical Definitions

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 are...

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Need Help with System Integration?  Check Out Our Resources!

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 at...

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Resources for Best Practices and Life Cycle of Data Requests

An important data governance (also referred to as data intelligence) process to have is an established data request process (such as a request for a new report) that is known and easy to use. This...

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Integration Health Score and Annual Assessment

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 or...

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System Integration Project Best Practices - Part 2

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

  1. Build a complete data mapping document
  2. Get approval on the...
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System Integration Project Best Practices - Part 1

In this post we cover 5 best practices for system integration projects and how data governance (data intelligence) can help.  In a following post we cover 6 additional best practices. Here are the 1st...

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Integration Best Practices After Go Live

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. Data system exchanges...

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More Data Request Best Practices

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.

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Some Data Request Best Practices

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.

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Part IV: Pragmatic Data Governance: Cultural Shifts in an Institution thru Best Practices

In their Top 10 IT Issues, 2017, EDUCAUSE identified “data management and governance” as issue #6 and defined it as the need to “improve…the management of institutional data through data standards,...

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Part III: Pragmatic Data Governance-Best Practices of Reporting

In their Top 10 IT Issues, 2017, EDUCAUSE identified “data management and governance” as an issue to “improve…the management of institutional data through data standards, integration, protection,...

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Quick Summary of What is Data Governance and Key Best Practices

We are often asked about data governance (or as we call it data intelligence) such as what is it and what are some key best practices in data governance. This post summarizes our thoughts on this. We...

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