Reporting and Analytics is very related to data governance. If you do not have trust in your data then you will not have trust in your reports and your analytic efforts. The report efforts are...
November 04, 2020
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Jim Walery
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October 20, 2020
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Jim Walery
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Reference data is the forgotten content in data governance. It needs to be documented and managed just like business glossary definitions and report specifications. Over time we have gathered...
October 14, 2020
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Jim Walery
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Do not make everything reference data in your data governance area. This blog post will discuss that only the key ones should be documented and managed. And new ones should be added to over time....
We hope everyone is staying home and staying safe, as much as possible. Being data-minded, we've of course been following the COVID-19 charts, graphs, and projections closely. Huge amounts of data...
March 04, 2020
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Aaron Walker
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Change is afoot..... - Those of you who are old enough may remember going to the library and looking up materials in a printed "card catalog," and perhaps going to the shelves and hoping to find...
December 04, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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By now you've decided that data governance is a good idea for your organization. You want to use organizational data to drive better decisions, and to better understand the effect of actions taken....
November 20, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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When we speak with new or prospective clients, the topic of their organization's data quality often comes up. And it's frequently our experience that when someone who is not data-savvy thinks...
September 11, 2019
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Aaron Walker
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IData Inc. has been in business since 2004, and we’ve performed a lot of different work for hundreds of clients in that time. It’s a little bit amazing then, how little some of the complaints we...
This post is some of our thoughts on data management issues throughout the data lifecycle including loss of focus, upkeep priority, security access and disposition of data.
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,...