Institutional Research and Reporting Services

IData has experienced professionals that know your administrative systems and understand the business of higher education. We strive to bridge the gap between your IR and IT departments. The following services are available to help your institution succeed:

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• At Your Side – Add an experienced, dedicated resource to your team with IData. We can provide services to help define and document your terms and report definitions. We can also provide resources with expert knowledge in your administrative systems to help extract the data and provide easy access for your analysis. This service can be provided with a series of short scheduled consultations, or a more extended arrangement with an allotted number of hours per month. IData is at your side assisting in the definition and development of your reports. Read the Kirkwood Community College case study.

• The Data Cookbook – IData has developed an online service to assist institutions in communicating and defining their reporting terms and report definitions. It is part of the suite of reporting services from IData and is used to help your institution have transparency in your reporting terms and report definitions as your reporting solutions are built. Watch a short video describing the Data Cookbook, or learn more about the Data Cookbook at DataCookbook.com. Read the University of Richmond case study.

• Project-based Institutional Research and Reporting Services – If your institution is faced with a larger project such as implementing a new reporting strategy, or recreating a new fact book, then IData can provide experienced resources to assist in all aspects of the process. With our project-based services, we can provide a time and materials proposal for how IData can help your institution complete the project successfully. Read the Columbus State University case study.

• Custom Report Design and Development – IData will work with your staff to create the requirements and design for any custom reporting project for your administrative system. IData will then implement, deliver, and document the project.

• Data Warehouse Design – If your institution is interested in creating a data warehouse solution or in adding new data marts to your existing warehouse, then IData and our partner companies can work with you to design the appropriate warehouse. Read the Kirkwood Community College case study.

• ETL Design and Implementation – IData can work to create the Extract, Transform, and Load (ETL) design and programming in order to bring your data warehouse to life. Our understanding of the data structures of the major higher education administrative systems as well as the higher education business functionality help to create data extraction designs that are both accurate and fast.

• Reporting Inventory – IData will work with IT, IR, and functional users to create a full inventory of your institutions existing reports. Using IData’s DataCookbook.com, we will document all reports and build the unified reporting terms (data elements) dictionary. We can also help to document the data governance structure. Our knowledge of the business needs and the technical sources of higher education data allow us to accurately and quickly document how your institution is truly using your data.

• Capture and Track Custom Data – Institutions sometimes find that a particular analysis requires information which is not currently contained or integrated with their administrative system. IData can add custom database tables and fields that are integrated directly with the existing administrative system. Using the appropriate development tools and best practices, IData can also create integrated, custom data entry forms and workflows. These custom workflows will allow the information to be entered and tracked in conjunction with the existing related data. For example, a community college that is interested in tracking student responses to marketing campaigns could add a required entry of marketing sources directly to the registration work flow for any new students.

Please contact us to discuss opportunities we have to work together:
Scott Flory – Director of Reporting Services

703-378-2110 ×820