This blog post suggests the best sources of definition content and ways to determine what should be defined. The sources are existing popular reports, pre-existing local glossaries, data dictionaries...
February 14, 2023
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February 08, 2023
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In this blog post we will be discussing data governance or data intelligence committees (or whatever your organization calls it). Sometimes these committees are ineffective. There is nothing wrong...
March 18, 2020
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A business glossary is a major component within a data governance (or data intelligence) initiative. Glossary entries consist of a name and a functional definition. The purpose of a functional...
February 12, 2020
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Jim Walery
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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...
January 15, 2020
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Some organizations lose momentum with their data governance (data intelligence) initiative. In this blog post, we’ll mention some of the reasons to restart your data governance initiative.
A few...
December 18, 2019
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Data governance (or what we call data intelligence) consists of many components including data system inventory, data request, data stewardship, reference data, data lineage, business glossary, data...
December 11, 2019
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Jim Walery
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Data stewardship is an important part of data governance (also referred to as data intelligence) and thus an important part of the success of the organization. A key part of data governance is...
December 06, 2019
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To have successful data governance (or data intelligence or data management) you need to have data stewardship. And for data stewards to be successful you need to provide them with the proper...
November 13, 2019
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For folks identified as data stewards there are a few principles you should follow which are: being helpful, being a problem solver, being a creator, being a protector and being positive. Data...
October 30, 2019
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Jim Walery
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This blog post will show you how to evaluate your data governance (also referred to as data intelligence) processes so that they can be improved, thus improving the organization’s efficiency and...
October 23, 2019
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The ideal situation is to have people on staff who are experienced and knowledgeable. And have data stewards who can do a variety of tasks effectively.
This blog post will cover the steps to create...
October 16, 2019
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Data is everywhere at an organization and in many data systems. And growing all the time. Data at an organization needs to be understood, individually and collectively, and can’t be done without a...
October 09, 2019
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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...
September 25, 2019
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This post is about student data privacy which is a big issue at higher education institutions. We’ll discuss how student data privacy fits ethically, legally and financially. Third party access to...
September 18, 2019
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Jim Walery
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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 information...
August 28, 2019
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Is your data governance (or data intelligence) content (report requests, data dumps, data systems inventory, data definitions, etc.) taking too long to produce or does not seem to be as effective as...
August 21, 2019
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In this post we’ll discuss the types of silos that exist at organizations (such as higher education institutions), data brawling, data culture, shadow systems, benefits of breaking down the silos and...
August 14, 2019
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An important component of data governance (also known as data intelligence) is data quality. But there are many parts to data quality including sources of data quality, issues, their impact, people...
July 24, 2019
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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 (data intelligence) over the more typical (and more costly)...
July 18, 2019
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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...
July 11, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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Something we often say during our early conversations with clients is that data governance (or data intelligence) is what you do when you recognize data is an asset, and when you start to treat it...
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 19, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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Recently we found ourselves re-reading Educause’s annual Top 10 IT Issues, 2019 Edition. We commented on this publication when it came out, but we wanted to revisit in this post a few observations...
June 12, 2019
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While some organizations have been successful with a wide range of reporting tools, many others struggle with the same tools. We feel it is because organizational reporting or analytics problems are...
June 07, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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Recently we attended the AIR Forum, the annual conference for institutional researchers. As a company, IData has a fair amount of direct experience with the practice of institutional research,...