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RE: Data Governance or Data Strategy Implementation Vendors

Posted By Lisa Welch 03-13-2024 11:34:25 AM
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The Education Advisory Board (EAB) offers an Enterprise Data Management Collaborative that focuses on building data strategy. If your institution is already an EAB partner, it's included in your membership. I am not sure of the cost/feasibility otherwise. Lisa WelchUniversity Data Officer Sr. Director, ...

RE: High Quality Data

Posted By Lisa Welch 02-02-2024 09:33:46 AM
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Melissa, we are just now starting to set up Data Quality Rules in our Cookbook instance as well at Pepperdine. Happy to hear that this seems to be working well for you all so far, and would love to hear more about your best practices, benefits/drawbacks, etc. as you proceed! Currently, our data quality ...

RE: Data Definition Standard Development

Posted By Lisa Welch 12-04-2023 03:44:02 PM
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Cynthia, Thank you for sharing those details! I find this approach especially interesting, as we also use the Data Cookbook and are approaching it in a different way (for better or worse). As much as possible, we try to have a single entry in the dictionary for each term (or data element), and multiple ...

RE: Data Governance Job Descriptions and Approach to DG Planning

Posted By Lisa Welch 10-25-2023 11:06:52 AM
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This is an excellent resource - thanks, John! Lisa WelchUniversity Data Officer | Office of Business Intelligence (BI) | Pepperdine University

RE: Looking for schools using Campus Solutions

Posted By Lisa Welch 06-14-2023 09:40:32 AM
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Feel free to simply join us via the link below at 10am. Please note, this is an informal overview, demo, and discussion (not a webinar). Thank you! Data Dictionary for PS Campus Solutions Lisa WelchUniversity Data Officer Office of Business Intelligence (BI) Information Technologyo: 818.702.1020 University ...

RE: Looking for schools using Campus Solutions

Posted By Lisa Welch 06-13-2023 02:19:47 PM
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All, My apologies for the delay in circling back on this. I coordinated with those who explicitly expressed interest and tomorrow, Wednesday, June 14 at 10:00 AM PST, I am conducting an overview/demo of our data dictionary for PS Campus Solutions. Feel free to join us using the link below. I will ...

RE: Looking for schools using Campus Solutions

Posted By Lisa Welch 05-17-2023 10:03:10 AM
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Hi All, I've received quite a bit of interest on this topic. I'm planning to schedule a time to provide an overview of what we've done at Pepperdine, prior to sharing the contents of our dictionary (if/where appropriate). I'll be reaching out offline to those who expressed interest in order to coordinate ...

RE: Looking for schools using Campus Solutions

Posted By Lisa Welch 05-02-2023 01:12:01 PM
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Hi Lauren! Pepperdine uses PS Campus Solutions. We have documented a fair number of data elements (300+) in our data dictionary. We did not pull definitions directly from any particular source; rather, we vetted them via our Data Stewardship committee(s). If helpful, I'd be happy to share any or all ...

RE: Is Anyone Using MS Purview in Production or Planning To?

Posted By Lisa Welch 04-17-2023 10:28:43 AM
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Pepperdine is also interested in learning more about Purview; please include me. Thank you! Lisa WelchUniversity Data Officer Office of Business Intelligence (BI) Information Technologyo: 818.702.1020 University Analytics | Data Dictionary | FAQs | Project Request Form

RE: Role-based report access model

Posted By Lisa Welch 11-10-2022 11:44:50 AM
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Pepperdine is interested in hearing about what others have done in this regard as well. We currently use AD groups to control access to content within MS Power BI, but at a fairly high level. Eventually, we'll similarly need the capability to control permissions at a more granular level. Chris, I'd ...

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

Posted By Lisa Welch 10-20-2022 12:55:51 PM
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At Pepperdine, the BI and IR offices are centralized and both report up to the Provost's office (via the Vice Provost). It has essentially been this way since inception. Analytics also primarily resides within BI, although a few of our colleges have dedicated analytics teams who both work with BI as ...

RE: Higher Ed CDO Survey

Posted By Lisa Welch 06-29-2022 02:32:00 PM
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Excellent, thank you! We will keep you in the loop as we draft the survey. Lisa WelchDirector of Business Intelligence (BI) Information Technologyo: 818.702.1020

Higher Ed CDO Survey

Posted By Lisa Welch 06-28-2022 05:34:28 PM
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Higher Ed CDO Survey

Posted By Lisa Welch 06-28-2022 05:34:00 PM
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Greetings! The Educause HE-CDO (Chief Data Officers) community group is looking to create an annual survey, akin to the Gartner CDO survey (example attached), but specific to higher ed. The intent is to be able to use the results for identifying priorities and gaps, benchmarking, and serving as a ...

RE: Data Dictionary Tools Recommendation

Posted By Lisa Welch 05-23-2022 11:30:51 AM
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Hi David, We use iData's Data Cookbook (like many others) and started it early on in our data governance efforts. For the price, it met (and still meets) our needs, especially in terms of data definition management and integration into our reporting platform (the latter has been key). We are just now ...

RE: Data Governance CG May Meeting on 5/5

Posted By Lisa Welch 04-27-2022 09:31:54 AM
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In case this is helpful for anyone else using Google Calendar: Download the calendar (ics) file Go to Settings in Google Calendar Scroll down to Import and Export Click on Import Select the downloaded fileI believe you can only do this via browser, not mobile app.

RE: Where is data governance located on your campus?

Posted By Lisa Welch 04-14-2022 12:08:11 PM
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Hello! Thanks for this question; Pepperdine's responses are below in bold. I look forward to hearing from others. Questions: 1. Is there a dedicated person or team for data governance at your institution? Yes, the Office of Business Intelligence (BI) launched and oversees our university-wide Data Stewardship ...

RE: Introductions

Posted By Lisa Welch 03-23-2022 11:54:14 AM
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Greetings! I am the Director of Business Intelligence at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California, USA, overseeing data warehousing, analytics, and data governance for the University. We launched our formal Data Stewardship program back in 2017 and it is still going strong, evolving from a focus on ...

RE: Student Data Removal Practices

Posted By Lisa Welch 10-06-2021 09:51:42 AM
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If helpful, we have the following language on our GDPR page, which is maintained by our legal counsel. Currently, any requests for erasure are being forwarded to legal counsel for review. Your information will be retained by the University in accordance with applicable state and federal laws, and the ...