Availability of New Spotlight on Technology Projects and Data Governance

July 23, 2026 - A technology project is a terrific time to enhance data governance and data intelligence efforts. Whether your project is large or small - switching solutions, system migration, move to SaaS, integration, implementing AI, or other new product implementation such as a new CRM - it's the perfect time to enhance your data governance efforts. Link the data requirements of your project to your data governance efforts. This month, IData is spotlighting technology projects and their increased success due to linkage with data governance and data intelligence. This spotlight features a web page of educational resources (blog posts, videos, and recorded webinars) around the topic of technology projects.

Blog posts in the spotlight include those on integration and migration to SaaS projects. Videos in the spotlight include those on "Challenges, Opportunities and ROI During an ERP Migration" as well as one about "Moving to SaaS Project Management Challenges & Potential Negative Outcomes". We have done some webinars on this as well and have recordings of sessions such as "Implementing Data Governance During a Data Warehousing Project" and "Best Practices for Leveraging Data Governance During Major ERP Implementations".

Take advantage of these resources. This spotlight is located at www.datacookbook.com/technology-projects-spotlight. Also, other spotlights are located at www.datacookbook.com/spotlights.

IData Adds Two New Webinars to Its Data Governance and Data Intelligence Best Practice Webinar Series

April 30, 2026 - IData has added 2 webinars to its Data Governance Best Practice Webinar series, bringing the total to 22 educational and informative sessions.

The 2 new webinars are titled:

* Building Buy-in and Adoption for Data Governance Across Your Organization

* AI Data Curation Cycle: Applying AI to Data Governance / Data Governance to AI

Here are the titles to the other 20 webinars in the best practices webinar series:

* Data Intelligence, Data Governance and Data Catalog - What's It All About

* Setting Goals and Creating Your Data Governance/Data Intelligence Roadmap

* The Four Types of Data Stewardship Roles

* Data System Inventory Best Practices

* Data Catalog and Data Model Best Practices

* Business Glossary Best Practices

* Managing Data Policies and Policy Attributes Best Practices

* Managing a Pragmatic Data Quality Program

* Points of Engagement with Data Governance Content

* The Amazing ROI of a Well Executed Report Request Process - Best Practices

* How a Customer Service Approach to Data Governance Can Save You Time

* Reference Data Best Practices

* Report Catalog Best Practices

* ETL / Integration Catalog Best Practices

* Data Lineage Best Practices

* Managing Data Stewardship Best Practices

* Management and Oversight of Data Governance Best Practices

* Understanding and Managing the Resources and Effort of Data Governance

* Data Governance is No After Thought During Major Technology Projects

* Keys to Data Governance Success

To view a recording of any of these webinars access: https://www.datacookbook.com/dg-best-practice-series

Hope you find these webinars beneficial to you and your organization.

Spotlight on Data System Inventory

March 6, 2025 - IData is pleased to announce that this month's spotlight is on Data System Inventory. An important component of data governance (also known as data intelligence) success at an organization is the data system inventory which includes data sources and data tools. The inventory documents the data systems that exist at your organization along with the data models, data system owner, and how to access the data system. IData Inc., a leader in data governance, has created a data system inventory resources page located at https://www.datacookbook.com/data-system-inventory-spotlight containing blog posts, videos, and recorded webinars. On this web page are resources including those on benefits, what to store in the inventory, how to build the inventory, and best practices. Be sure to check out these resources.