Tag Archives: intelligence

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,...

Learn More

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,...

Learn More

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...

Learn More

Part II: Pragmatic Data Governance-Just in Time Data Governance

 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,...

Learn More

Part I: Pragmatic Data Governance-Accountability and Trust

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,...

Learn More

Succeed with Just-in-Time Data Governance

More and more organizations are implementing data governance (also referred to as data intelligence) to better document their data, and, from our experience, this usually means a large committee with...

Learn More

At-Risk Students and the Data Cookbook: Harnessing the Power of Prediction

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...

Learn More

Case for Sharing Definitions & Specifications in the Public Community

As you many know, IData publishes a number of publicly-available definitions and specifications for public consumption, including national data sets like IPEDS and CDS, state bodies like SCHEV in...

Learn More

Building a Better Data Culture

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...

Learn More

Going All In for Data Management

As technology consultants for organizations (those in higher education, corporations and non-profits), IData is well-acquainted with the practicalities and pitfalls of running an organization. For...

Learn More

Migrating Reports - You have to Analyze the Functional Need

So, we're converting from X to Y - can you help us re-write our reports?

Often when an organization is changing from one system to another, they look to automate the process. This works fine,...

Learn More

Data Governance Takes Time...

Just a quick thought for today...Data Governance (and data intelligence and data management) takes a lot of time, and some people are put off by that because they can't quantify or see the long term...

Learn More

Subscribe to Email Updates

Recent Posts

Archives

Categories