We did our review and here are the top 12 most viewed blog posts in 2023 from our IData Insights Blog about Data Management, Data Intelligence, and Data Governance. There was quite a variety of...
We were recently reminded of #MonkeyFirst, which was something between a thought experiment and an analogy produced by Astro Teller of Google X. Briefly, for those of you who missed it the first time...
Organizations generate an abundance of valuable data. Unfortunately, this data is not always easy to access or understand and thus needs to be managed. IData Inc. (IData) is committed to all kinds of...
Data is everywhere at an organization in many data systems. And growing all the time. This data needs to be understood, individually and collectively, and cannot be done without a data systems...
The number of data systems and applications of an organization keeps growing. And in most cases these new systems and applications need to be integrated with other systems and applications to make...
What is it that you want to track in a data system inventory? It’s a lot of information. In this blog post we cover this by discussing the ten levels of data system inventory complexity. They get...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In this post we cover 5 best practices for system integration projects and how data governance (data intelligence) can help. In a following post we cover 6 additional best practices. Here are the 1st...
There are many challenges in integrating 2 data systems. In this post we will cover the following challenges: lack of skills, lack of money, lack of resources, poor communication/planning, after...
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...
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...
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...