IData and the Data Cookbook Sponsoring Upcoming NEAIR Regional Institutional Research Event

September 12, 2025 - IData and the Data Cookbook will be sponsoring the upcoming North East Association for Institutional Research (NEAIR) Conference. This conference will be held in North Bethesda, MD on November 8-11. More information can be found at https://www.neair.org/index.php. This year's theme is Empowering Innovation - Enhancing IR/IE through AI and Automation.

On November 10th at 5pm Eastern, IData will be holding a session "Setting Goals & Creating Your Data Governance Roadmap". In this session, Brian Parish of IData will cover best practices for creating your data governance roadmap and discuss:

* Current-state data governance assessment strategies

* Developing data governance recommendations

* Defining the scope and prioritizing which recommendations to implement

* Defining the scope(s) of your data governance initiative with prioritization

* Building an actionable data governance plan and moving from planning to doing

* Maintaining momentum and buy-in

* Measuring success and return-on-investment

We will also be doing another brief session on the Data Cookbook, our data governance, data intelligence, and data catalog solution.

If attending the conference, feel free to stop by our table and have a chat. We look forward to sharing ideas, knowledge, expertise, and aspirations with Institutional Research (IR) / Institutional Effectiveness (IE) professionals at the conference.

IData Participating in Upcoming SAIR Conference

August 20, 2025 - IData Inc. (IData) is excited to be exhibiting and presenting at the upcoming SAIR Conference. The 52nd Annual SAIR Conference will be held September 27-30, at the Hilton Alexandria Mark Center in Alexandria, Virginia, which is where the headquarters of IData is located. SAIR stands for Southern Association for Institutional Research which is a group dedicated to the advancement of research leading to improved understanding, planning, and operation of institutions of higher education (primarily those located in the Southern Section of the United States). Professionals and technology providers gather at this conference to network, share ideas, grow professionally, and discover solutions to today’s challenges for higher education. Since 2004, IData has been assisting higher education institutions with their technology, data intelligence, data governance, data catalog, data management, and integration needs. At the conference, IData staff will be presenting on "Building Buy-in and Adoption for Data Governance Across Your Institution" and "The Data Cookbook: a speed-run demo supporting data governance, data catalog, and data quality". At our booth IData will be showing the enhanced Data Cookbook solution, a data governance, data intelligence, and data catalog solution. Hope to see you there. More information about the conference can be found at https://hubs.ly/Q03DJfN40.

IData Participating in Its 16th Educause Conference

July 30, 2025 - IData Inc. will be exhibiting at the upcoming EDUCAUSE Annual Conference which connects the best thinkers in higher education technology. This event is in Nashville and is being held October 27th through October 30th. Professionals and technology providers from around the world gather at this conference to network, share ideas, grow professionally, and discover solutions to today’s challenges for higher education. Since 2004, IData has been assisting higher education institutions with their technology, data intelligence, data governance, data catalog, data management, and integration needs. At our 10x30ft booth (booth #1200) IData will be showing the enhanced Data Cookbook solution and the IData library of integration connectors including those for Slate and Concur solutions. IData in its 21 year old history has participated in 16 Educause Conferences. Hope to see you there. More information about the conference can be found at https://events.educause.edu/annual-conference.