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RE: Data Catalog vs Data Business Glossary vs Data Dictionary

Posted By Barbara Forth 02-12-2025 07:48:00 AM
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Erica, Data Catalog, Business Glossary, and Data Dictionary work together to ensure data is well-organized, clearly defined, and technically documented for both business and technical users. We are starting to create the Glossary for a Workday implementation. We have examples of local business glossaries/catalogs ...

Seeking Workday DG Best Practices

Posted By Barbara Forth 02-05-2025 05:04:47 AM
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Hi everyone, I'm reaching out to see if any fellow Data Governance peers from Banner-to-Workday schools would be willing to share best practices on a few key topics: How you're documenting the FDM using Workday reporting Strategies for communicating FOAPAL-to-FDM changes as part of change management ...

RE: Score Card for ERP Transition

Posted By Barbara Forth 02-05-2025 04:52:58 AM
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Erika, W&M is in the end to end testing phase of Workday HR/Finance/Payroll and evaluating Student. Send me a note and we can share our approach. ------------------------------ Barbara Forth CDO The College of William & Mary boforth@wm.edu ------------------------------

RE: Enterprise Architecture without an EA specific application

Posted By Barbara Forth 08-07-2024 03:37:22 PM
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So, from a budgeting perspective if I put in a low estimate and a high estimate which tools would you recommend and what is the amount? I can do enough preliminary research to put in an estimate and benefits as we start to grow our own. - Thoughts? ------------------------------ Barbara Forth CDO ...

RE: Enterprise Architecture without an EA specific application

Posted By Barbara Forth 08-06-2024 03:11:56 PM
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Patrick - Great question. I am asking the same question and attempting to use Visio and related tools. I would like to learn more about your prior experience and tooling solutions. My prior experiences in Financial Investments was that tools were onboarded and used for large programs but not funded long ...

Data Governance and Workday Implementation - Learnings Wanted

Posted By Barbara Forth 07-07-2024 11:03:26 AM
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Hi - We have kicked off a Workday implementation with an integrator. If you have gone through a WD implementation for HR and Finance, looking to learn from your experience for best practices and/or what to avoid in terms of: FDM and organizational rollups and alignment with the rest of the institution ...

RE: Adding concepts to DG business glossary

Posted By Barbara Forth 07-07-2024 10:17:15 AM
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We have identified the major concepts for the W&M in six major categories. Each area breaks down into sub-domains with "buckets" of concepts and key relationships (Using power point and Excel to start) Many concepts are very straight forward, and some are not well understood yet. We have a number of ...

Calling all Workday Schools - Data Governance Learnings

Posted By Barbara Forth 01-03-2024 02:41:00 PM
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Are you currently or recently implemented Workday? If so, what best practices do you recommend or pittfalls to avoid in Data Goverance activities? Was you Data Governance team part of Workday program efforts? If so how? If not, why not? Did you find any specific tooling helpful ? Thanks, ...

Practice of obfuscating small sample sizes

Posted By Barbara Forth 12-06-2023 10:11:00 AM
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W&M has been having an internal discussion on our general practice of obfuscating small sample sizes to ensure anonymity when presenting aggregate data. This practice is at the institution level for protecting salary, demographic, and other sensitive data from being matched to individuals. I am looking ...

Research Related Concepts - storing and reporting

Posted By Barbara Forth 02-27-2023 10:33:00 AM
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W&M is working on a new Research system. I am interested to learn from schools if you have and can share your conceptual / logical models of the major Research related concepts (Sponsor, Principal Investigator, Department, Program, Award, Funding Source, Publications...) What are the dimensions of Co-Principal ...

RE: Analytics, IR, and BI in Your Organization Poll

Posted By Barbara Forth 10-21-2022 03:19:00 PM
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At W&M, the IR team and the Data Analytics and Architecture teams (transitioning from - Business Intelligence Team) report to the Chief Data Officer who reports to the CIO to COO to President. Chief Data Officer is building W&M Data Governance capabilities and making data available at all levels of institution ...

FW: Qlik - Educause Questions

Posted By Barbara Forth 08-17-2022 10:36:00 AM
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W&M is looking to learn about Qlik Sense from other schools. If your school is using Qlik Sense, 1) Have you switched from CORE licenses to a subscription program? 2) What is your SaaS experience? 3) Have you used Qlik Sense to create web-embedded, external-facing visualizations and what ...