October 22, 2022 - The Data Cookbook Data Intelligence Solution by IData is proud to be sponsoring the upcoming Data Governance & Information Quality Conference (DGIQ) hosted by Dataversity. This event will be December 5th through 9th in Washington DC. More information about this event can be found at https://dgiq2022east.dataversity.net/. At this conference a world-class group of data governance and information quality experts will hold sessions in a variety of tracks including data governance, analytics, data strategy, data quality, data leadership and stewardship. We are looking forward to engaging with attendees at our booth and sharing experiences to solve challenges, discover problems, and learn needs. This is the 3rd DGIQ Conference that IData has attended.
November 24, 2021 - IData Inc. is excited to partake in an upcoming online event focused on data catalogs. Produced by DATAVERSITY, Data Catalogs Demo Day 2022 provides attendees the opportunity to learn more about available solutions in the marketplace. IData will be showing its Data Cookbook solution. Organizations of all types and sizes are looking for data catalog solutions that will contribute to their success.
The session on Wednesday, April 13th, 2 to 2:45pm Eastern (11 to 11:45pm Pacific), will include a live demo of the Data Cookbook and its data catalog / data governance / data intelligence capabilities. Brian Parish, CEO and Founder of IData, will be presenting. The Data Cookbook demonstration will be 30 minutes in length, followed by a 15 minute question and answer discussion. Registration for this special event will be opening up soon.
If you are a data professional with a need for an enterprise data catalog solution we hope you mark your calendar on April 13th with this informative session. More information on the Data Cookbook solution can be found at www.datacookbook.com.
Updated: Dec 18, 2023
May 18, 2017 - More and more higher education institutions are implementing data governance to better document their data, and, from our experience, this usually means a large committee with lots of meetings. And, this often leads to a lot of time spent with little results when that committee focuses exclusively on data documentation. Our recommendation is to empower a committee to handle policy and vision, and empower individuals to handle simple and small day-to-day data governance tasks. We call this approach just-in-time (JIT) data governance.
There is a life cycle that data requests go through (request receipt, analysis of request, report details and data definitions, and report development and delivery). Usually, a good report leads to more questions and the life cycle is repeated. During the life cycle, there needs to be real-time, interactive exchanges between individuals, and great communication between the parties involved. When someone needs to build a report or fill a data request, he/she needs access to the appropriate data steward and definitions quickly, rather than months later when a committee meets.
There are 2 key aspects to successful JIT data governance:
having empowered data stewards
having a documented workflow for review and approval
JIT data governance needs empowered data stewards for the day-to-day decisions. Usually, there is a data steward in each functional area. A data requester needs to have a clear understanding on the contact details for their data steward, the process to contact the data steward and what to expect from the data steward.
According to an Educause Working Group Paper data stewards are:
"Individuals who are responsible for promoting appropriate data use through planning, policy, and protocols at your institution. Data stewards provide university-level knowledge and understanding for a specific data area (e.g., student data, financial data, HR data, or alumni development data). Data stewards are responsible for data quality and data integrity, including consistent data definitions and their application throughout connected systems. They collaborate with other stewards to ensure that overlap areas (e.g., student employees and employees who are students) work across the board and that system updates are scheduled reasonably and tested appropriately. Data stewards work with security, privacy, and compliance officers to ensure that data are classified appropriately and that appropriate training is provided to users who will interact with data. Example stewards are the registrar and HR director."
Having a tool like the Data Cookbook is a big help in the review and approval process because it provides the definitions and workflows necessary for successful data governance. Using workflows, data questions that come up during day-to-day operations are routed directly to data stewards for approvals, editing, or back-and-forth discussion. With every question that is asked in real-life situations, the data dictionary can be built, reviewed, and grown. This provides better answers when they are needed; it also prevents wasting the time of a room full of people with more important things to do. The answers to questions can also be stored in a shared knowledge base accessible by those who need the information. The workflows help ensure the appropriate data steward is notified at the appropriate time.
When reports are delivered, with JIT data governance, there is backup information on where the numbers came from which will achieve trust in the data.