IData News

August 24, 2010 - IData makes Inc Magazine INC 500 list.

IData Inc was listed at #438 in Inc Magazine’s 2010 list of America’s 500 fastest growing private companies. In the education sector, IData is ranked #4 in the country. IData made the list with over 683% revenue growth over the last 3 years. IData is very proud of our entire team and thankful to all of our clients for contributing to our growth. “We pledge to continue to work hard to offer great technology services and solutions to our higher education clients. If we can continue to live up to that promise, we will continue to grow,” said IData’s president, Brian Parish. To see the full list, visit here

August 16, 2010 - Quinnipiac University Joins the Data Cookbook User Community

IData is pleased to welcome Quinnipiac University to the Data Cookbook user community. Quinnipiac is a private, coeducational university with 5,700 undergraduate and 2,000 graduate students. They are consistently ranked among the best universities by U.S. News and World Report and are committed to teaching and collaboration. The Data Cookbook is an online knowledge base and collaboration tool designed to help higher education institutional research and IT professionals simplify the process of institutional reporting. For more information, visit www.datacookbook.com/tour

August 6, 2010 - Morehead State University

When Morehead State University had an immediate need for a customization to the student transfer credits process, they called in IData. With increased enrollment and a new student information system, MSU found themselves with a backlog of hundreds of transcripts for transfer credit evaluation. The existing data entry process was taking too long for each transcript. IData had worked with MSU before on projects, but this time, something needed to be done immediately.

After an email showed up late Tuesday night, IData was on a call with the whole MSU team at 9:00 am the next morning. Soon, the requirements were assessed and a solution was designed, built, and launched. With the new solution in place, MSU was able to streamline their transfer process, and successfully admit their students.

Sheri White of Morehead State University had this to say “You guys have been WONDERFUL in working with us on this customization!”

For information on how IData, Inc can help you with your “emergency” projects, see our Technology Consulting Services page on our website.

August 3, 2010 – Fredericksburg, VA

The University of Mary Washington recently teamed up with IData, Inc. to build a custom parent load process. The new customization provides an efficient method for matching existing records and creating new parent/guardian data for incoming freshman and returning students. The process replaces a labor-intensive approach that required the Advancement user to manually match new parent/guardian data to existing Banner IDs then enter parent data into approximately seven different INB forms.

With the custom parent load process in place, the Advancement user can now match records, review parent/guardian data submitted by the student, and create new records in Banner from a single web form. It also provides additional functionality to allow for research of parent employment (matching gift companies) and to update legacy relative information.

The manual process that took 20 to 40 minutes to create a record has been replaced by an efficient process that creates a record in one to two minutes.

With the legacy system, parent data was not available for use into late summer or early fall. The new process has permitted our department to create and access parent data within days of its submission by the student. Parents can now be contacted almost immediately, allowing valuable UMW relationships to be developed sooner.

Jane Cariker had this to say:

“Working with IData was a very positive experience. Each consultant was professional, responsive, and attentive to our needs. We are very pleased with the results of the first phase of our current project and look forward to working with them in the future.”

IData and UMW will be giving a presentation on this effort at this year’s Mid-Atlantic Banner User’s Group (MABUG) being held in Wilmington, NC on October 4th and 5th, 2010.

July 27, 2010 - IData Inc featured in 37 Signals blog

IData was recently featured in the 37 signals’ Signal vs.Noise blog for the Bootstrapped, Profitable, and Proud feature. This weekly feature of the SVN blog covers companies that have grown and remained profitable without taking any VC money. We are big fans of 37 signals, and we are proud to be listed on their blog. This week, they ran a condensed version of the typical long interview format. Since we filled out the whole questionnaire, I figured we could post the complete version on our site. Take a look at our full responses and then read the SVN blog regularly – it is full of great information for business and web design.

July 19th, 2010 - Campus Technology 2010 (Boston, MA)

IData Inc. will be exhibiting at Campus Technology 2010 in Boston, Massachusetts from July 19-21, 2010. We will be joined by our partners from Big Nerd Ranch. Please visit us at booth #639. For more information, please go to extras

June 25, 2011 - Mays Landing, NJ

New Jersey has strict directives governing pension and tax deduction amounts and time frames for individuals who choose to be paid outside of their working period. To ensure alignment with these directives, IData developed custom tax and pension subroutines for Atlantic Cape Community College (ACCC). With the custom subroutines developed by IData, ACCC can now efficiently calculate critical unemployment, family leave, and workforce tax and pension information for ten month faculty positions that have chosen to be paid over twelve months.

For information on how IData, Inc can help you with Payroll or Human Resource Development needs, see our Technology Consulting Services page on our website.

June 21, 2010 - Georgia College & State University Has Joined the Data Cookbook Community

IData is pleased to welcome Georgia College & State University (Milledgeville, GA) to the Data Cookbook community. Georgia College & State University is Georgia’s Public Liberal Arts University, which offers over 36 undergraduate degrees and more than 25 graduate programs from its four schools – arts and sciences, business, education and health science. The Data Cookbook is an online knowledge base and collaboration tool designed to help higher education institutional research and IT professionals simplify the process of institutional reporting. For more information, visit http://www.datacookbook.com/tour.

June 17, 2010 - Four More Institutions Join the Data Cookbook Community

IData is pleased to announce that the Data Cookbook community continues to grow. In the past month, four more institutions have selected the Data Cookbook to help manage their institutional reporting process. Our newest community members are Rock Valley College (Rockford, IL), Bucknell University (Lewisburg, PA), Bellevue University (Bellevue, NE) and Florida State College (Jacksonville, FL). The Data Cookbook is an online knowledge base and collaboration tool designed to help higher education institutional research and IT professionals simplify the process of institutional reporting. For more information, visit http://www.datacookbook.com/tour.

June 3, 2010 – IData to present at the Mid Atlantic Regional Oracle/Peoplesoft Conference

IData, Inc will be presenting on data management and reporting at the Mid Atlantic Regional PeopleSoft/Oracle Users Group hosted by the University of Maryland Baltimore County in Baltimore, MD. President Brian Parish will give the presentation on June 11, 2010.

May 30, 2010 – IData to present at the AIR 50th Annual Forum

IData, Inc will be presenting on data governance, reporting, and IT collaboration between IT and IR at the AIR 50th Annual Forum in Chicago, IL. President Brian Parish and Director of IR and Reporting Services Scott Flory will give their presentation The Data Cookbook: A Conversation About Institutional Reporting and Data Governance on May 31, 2010.

May 26th, 2010 - IData to host first Data Cookbook Users Group meeting

On May 26th, IData will be conducting the first users group meeting of the Data Cookbook. As more institutions have chosen to use this tool, the desire to share and maximize the value has increased. At this meeting, IData will share information about the future direction of the Cookbook, gather valuable feedback from the user base, and provide an opportunity for users to share tips and ideas.
Since the launch in November, the Data Cookbook has been catching on with both universities and the press.

The Data Cookbook is catching on quickly because it is the only data management tool that is developed specifically for higher education, can store and manage technical and functional information in a single place, and is available in an affordable and easy-to-implement software as a service (SaaS) model.

May 13th, 2010 - Academic Impressions features thoughts on successful reporting from IData

Academic Impressions, a leading publisher of higher education news and insight featured an article on Friday, May 13th, 2010 titled “Business Intelligence: Making Data Reporting More Effective”. The article, written by Daniel Fusch, addresses IData’s philosophy on institutional research: “Reporting is not a technology problem.” If you are looking for the key to success in business intelligence or any data reporting, you have to start with good communication. “You can roll out the perfect solution and the perfect delivery, but if the end user doesn’t understand or trust the data, they are not going to use it.” To read the full article, click here.

April 20, 2010 - Washington, DC

Georgetown University is now live with several new reporting enhancements custom designed and built by IData for their preregistration system. Chief among the new reporting functionality is a Historical Closures report which allows students to view previous preregistration course selection demand. Students can use the historical information as a guide when making current preregistration term course selections.

For information on how IData, Inc can help you, see our Technology Consulting Services page on our website.

April 19, 2010 - Baltimore, MD

Laureate Education has gone live with its new Banner-integrated Non-Degree Application System. IData was a critical part of the team assembled to design, build, and integrate a custom system to handle applications from students applying for courses outside of traditional degree-seeking tracks. With this system in place, Laureate can allow prospective students to preregister for courses up to a year in advance, and then staff these sections appropriately as the course start date approaches.

For information on how IData, Inc can help you, see our Technology Consulting Services page on our website.

April 18, 2010 – IData to exhibit at the Higher Education Data Warehouse Conference

IData, Inc is proud to be one the vendors selected to participate in this year’s Higher Education Data Warehouse conference at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Albany, NY. The HEDW conference will run from April 18th to April 20th. We are looking forward to visiting with the attending schools as well as some great opportunities for learning. Scott Flory (IData’s Dir. of IR and Reporting Services) and Brian Parish (IData’s President) will be attending sessions and running demos of DataCookBook.com in the exhibit area.

April 16th, 2010 - Three new Colleges join the DataCookbook.com community this week

IData incorporated is proud to announce that, in the last week, three new colleges have selected DataCookbook.com to help manage their institutional reporting process. The new community members are Bucks County Community College (Newtown, PA), Tarrant County College (Ft. Worth, TX), and Simmons College (Boston MA). The Data Cookbook is an online knowledge base and collaboration tool designed to help higher education institutional research and IT professionals simplify the process of institutional reporting. For more information, visit http://www.datacookbook.com/tour or read the Press Release

March 29, 2010 - Lawrenceville, NJ

Rider University, working with IData, has completed a custom enhancement to their newly implemented Banner HR system. This enhancement allows Rider to track and compare position salaries to external market rates using custom forms and reports.

For information on how IData, Inc can help you, see our Technology Consulting Services page on our website.

March 29, 2010 – IData to present at the Datatel Users Group

IData, Inc will be presenting on data governance, reporting, and IT collaboration between IT and IR at the 2010 Datatel Users’ Group Conference and Expo to take place March 28-31 at National Harbor, Md. President Brian Parish and Director of IR and Reporting Services Scott Flory will give their presentation at 3:05pm on Monday, March 29th. The presentation will include a demonstration of DataCookbook.com, IData’s innovative data management tool.

March 22nd, 2010 - University of Richmond joins DataCookbook.com community

The University of Richmond (VA) selects IData’s DataCookbook.com to help manage their institutional reporting process. As part of a university-wide data-governance and reporting initiative, UR has selected the DataCookbook.com as the data management tool to guide their team through the process of creating a knowledge base for campus reporting. The Data Cookbook is an online knowledge base and collaboration tool designed to help higher education institutional research and IT professionals simplify the process of institutional reporting. The University of Richmond provides a learning environment unlike any other in higher education, offering students an extraordinary combination of the liberal arts with law, business, leadership studies, and continuing education. It is characterized by a distinctly integrated student experience—a rich and innovative life for students inside and outside the classroom—and a determination to engage as a meaningful part of the Richmond community, the nation, and the world. For more information, visit http://www.datacookbook.com/tour

March 19th, 2010 - University of Texas Tyler joins DataCookbook.com community

The University of Texas, Tyler selects IData’s DataCookbook.com to help manage their institutional reporting process. After being introduced to the collaboration and data management tool at the 2010 Alliance conference in San Antonio, UT Tyler quickly recognized that the Data Cookbook solved a need on their campus. The Data Cookbook is an online knowledge base and collaboration tool designed to help higher education institutional research and IT professionals simplify the process of institutional reporting. A member of the renowned University of Texas System, The University of Texas at Tyler carries a proud tradition of high-quality students and academic opportunities. In fact, UT Tyler’s vision is special, indeed. UT Tyler strives to be the premier public university in Texas for high-ability students—the university for honor students in Texas. For more information, visit http://www.datacookbook.com/tour

March 14, 2010 - Letter from the President

What’s the big idea?

It has been a little over a year since I sent out my last open letter to our clients (part of our annual IData Ink newsletter), and it has been a very unusual year. For most of you, it has been a difficult year managing reduced budgets with increased demand by students. The budget problems don’t appear to be going away any time soon and that has led all of us to do some creative thinking about how to serve students and employees in new, innovative ways. Read the rest of the letter here

February 18th, 2010 - IData and Datatel Announce Partnership

IData is very excited to announce our new partnership with Datatel, Inc. IData is now an official services partner with Datatel and will be working with them to augment their services offerings. We are particularly excited to be working with Datatel’s reporting services team to offer innovative services and drive successful use of campus data at Datatel institutions. For IData’s direct clients, this gives us additional access to the tools and resources needed to provide the best possible services. With this new partnership, IData will be an exhibitor and sponsor for the 2010 Datatel Users’ Group Conference and Expo to take place March 28-31 at National Harbor, Md. About Datatel, Inc. – Datatel is a provider of innovative technology products, services, and insight to higher education. Colleges, universities, and technical schools across North America partner with Datatel to build Strategic Academic Enterprises dedicated to achieving student success. The company has focused on higher education since 1979. For more information, visit http://www.datatel.com.

February 15th, 2010 - San Jacinto College joins DataCookbook.com community

San Jacinto College selects IData’s DataCookbook.com to help manage their institutional reporting process. San Jacinto College is a public community college in Harris County, Texas, serving a district defined by the combined areas of these independent school districts: Channelview, Deer Park, Galena Park, La Porte, Pasadena, Sheldon and Clear Creek. The Data Cookbook is an online knowledge base and collaboration tool designed to help higher education institutional research and IT professionals simplify the process of institutional reporting. For more information, visit http://www.datacookbook.com/tour

February 10, 2010 – IData to present at the PeopleSoft/Oracle Users Group

IData, Inc will be presenting on data governance, reporting, and IT collaboration between IT and IR at the PeopleSoft/Oracle Users Group in San Antonio, TX. President Brian Parish and Director of IR and Reporting Services Scott Flory will give their presentation on March 2, 2010.

February 2, 2010 – IData discusses emerging technologies with Converge Magazine

IData Inc President, Brian Parish, lent his expertise about up-and-coming technologies and their potential impact on higher education to Converge Magazine. See the full article, “6 Emerging Technologies That Will Impact College Campuses” at ConvergeMag.com.

January 30, 2010 – Q&A with Jeff Wendt of Today’s Campus Online

Brian Parish, President of IData, Inc, discussed some of the most innovative projects IData has completed at higher education institutions with Jeff Wendt of Today’s Campus Online. Read the full article here.

January 27, 2010 - Alexandria, VA

IData is proud to announce the addition of Sue Kumpf to our IData team. Sue is IData’s new Innovation Strategist and will be bringing her 30 years of higher education technology experience to our innovative products division. Her experiences include leadership, solution strategy and planning, continuous improvement and customer service. To start, Sue will be working to help us grow our DataCookbook.com community and deliver new innovative solutions to our Data Cookbook clients.

January 14, 2010 – Washington, DC

Georgetown University recently implemented a custom course waitlist solution designed and built by IData. The new waitlist solution provides both the Main Campus and the Law School Registrars the flexibility they need to configure and process waitlist course requests according to the needs of their individual schools. Using the custom waitlist solution, Registrars’ offices can choose to either award waitlist seats based on a student’s rank as defined and used in their custom preregistration system (also designed and built by IData), or by criteria established within Banner’s waitlist configuration settings.

The newly delivered custom SSB forms provide immediate visibility into course waitlist award status and results for both students and faculty. Custom reporting and auditing functionality further streamline the entire waitlist process for students, faculty and Registrar staff.

For information on how IData, Inc can help you see our Technology Consulting Services on our website.

Jan 5th, 2010 - Dean and Provost Magazine discusses DataCookbook.com

The article starts: “A recent Educause study shows that senior information technology directors and staff members are skeptical whether their institutions get maximum business value from institutional data or whether they effectively manage the varieties of data and digital content their institutions need. If officials at your institution share those concerns, consider whether the Data Cookbook, a new product from IData, could help.” Read the full article here.

January 4, 2010 - South Hadley, MA

Mount Holyoke College now has in production a new Faculty Information System (FIS) designed and custom built by IData, Inc. The Dean of Faculty Office at Mount Holyoke College uses the new FIS to perform yearly position-based budgeting analysis for faculty positions independently of the Human Resources. The new FIS system includes custom screens, reports and processes used by the Dean of Faculty Office to complete their yearly analysis, all of which are integrated with Mount Holyoke’s Datatel Colleague system.

For information on how IData, Inc can help you see our Technology Consulting Services page on our website.

January 4, 2010 - South Hadley, MA

IData has completed a series of software development projects for Mount Holyoke College of South Hadley, MA. The projects, which span three and a half years, involve customizations to MHC’s Colleague Advancement system including custom reports, modifications to web processes, custom export processes, and the creation of new custom modules. The customizations improve ease of use and streamline the college’s business processes, saving Mount Holyoke time and effort. One custom module, the Reunion Workers system designed and built for MHC by IData is fully integrated with the Datatel environment, allowing the college’s Alumnae Office to record reunion events and job details, register and track student workers, assign jobs to student workers, and report on jobs and student workers within their Colleague Advancement system.

For information on how IData, Inc can help you see our Technology Consulting Services page on our website.

January 1st, 2010 - San Diego, CA

The New School of architecture and Design (NSAD) completed an implementation of SunGard Banner. NSAD has joined the Laureate international universities network, that includes Walden University. Working with members of Laureate and NSAD, IData served as project manager and technical lead for the data migration from Campus Management’s Campus Vue product to SunGard’s Banner student system. Final conversions and go-live completed with the start of 2010.

For information on how IData, Inc can help your institution, see our Technology Consulting Services page on our website.