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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...

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.

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...

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...

Unsure of where your organization is in the data governance (data intelligence) process?   

Then ask and answer the following questions:

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,...

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,...

A recent New York Times article explores the burgeoning world of student data in an attempt to explain why it holds such power, particularly with at-risk students. Recent work in learning analytics...

Interesting article in the most recent issue of Educause Review, called "The Chief Data Officer in Higher Education." Written by Mike Kelly, Chief Data Officer (CDO) at the University of South...

Anyone who's ever attended a Data Cookbook demonstration, or heard us talk about it at a higher education conference, has heard us say this: "Reporting is not a technology problem." While we think...