The California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA) takes effect January 1, 2020. This regulation, much like GDPR, provides greater protection to an individual’s personal information and how this...
September 18, 2019
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Jim Walery
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August 28, 2019
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Jim Walery
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Data Cookbook,
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Is your data governance content (report requests, data dumps, data definitions, etc.) taking too long to produce or doesn’t seem to be as effective as they should be? Content is like a continual...
August 21, 2019
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Jim Walery
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In this post we’ll discuss the types of silos that exist at higher education institutions, data brawling, data culture, shadow systems, benefits of breaking down the silos and what actions can be...
August 14, 2019
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Jim Walery
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An important component of data governance is data quality. But there are many parts to data quality including sources of data quality, issues, their impact, people roles, content and processes. In...
July 24, 2019
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Jim Walery
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We are a firm believer of just-in-time data governance. In this blog post we will cover less expensive, better ways to do data governance over the more typical (and more costly) ways.
July 18, 2019
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Jim Walery
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Reporting can always be improved. It is often not the reporting technology being used that is the problem. Usually it comes down to people and processes. In this post we share some thoughts on...
June 26, 2019
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Jim Walery
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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...
June 12, 2019
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Jim Walery
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While some higher education institutions have been successful with a wide range of reporting tools, many others struggle with the same tools. We feel it is because institutional reporting problems...
May 31, 2019
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Jim Walery
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In a previous post we covered 5 best practices in a system integration project. Here we will cover 6 more best practices which are:
- Build a complete data mapping document
- Get approval on the...
May 29, 2019
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Jim Walery
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In this post we cover 5 best practices for system integration projects and how data governance can help. In a following post we cover 6 additional best practices. Here are the 1st five best...