Data

Data Goals & Objectives

Providing greater opportunity to leverage data as a strategic asset across the UMS was identified as a key area of growth and need for US:IT. A total of (1) Goal and (7) discrete objectives have been identified to help foster a data-driven culture.

Data Goals & Objectives

6.1. US:IT will engage with the University community to establish a culture of data-informed and responsive decision making

  • 6.1.1 Partner with UMS departments and functional areas to develop a comprehensive data dictionary to fully document source data used for reports and provide accessible data definitions
  • 6.1.2 Establish framework to ensure data is properly classified, securely stored, and accessed with well-managed rights so that the data resources are appropriately available to business units
  • 6.1.3 Develop and pilot a complete data mart project consisting of a Microsoft SQL server database, a Talend-based data integration process and a Microsoft Power BI driven reporting front end for end user access
  • 6.1.4 Establish a cross-functional team to develop a framework for leveraging the Splunk service to identify resource needs and inform service improvement opportunities
  • 6.1.5 Partner with UMS Stakeholders to develop, promote and support system-wide Data Governance
  • 6.1.6 Acquire and implement a new Business Intelligence tool for student, human resources, and finance data to replace the retiring Discoverer tool and create a new reporting platform for end users in all databases
  • 6.1.7 Develop capacity to provide robust predictive & prescriptive data analytics models for campus and functional office decision-making support