October 31, 2025
New data governance and literacy training courses have been launched in Workday! The courses consist of self-paced modules covering a variety of data governance and literacy topics with a focus on foundational concepts and how they are interconnected. Topics covered in the courses include governance principles, roles and responsibilities, literacy skills, operational incentives for a…
May 7, 2025
Four new curated training modules are now available to the UCF community through the Workday Learning app. The first module is a general introduction to data literacy, while the last three are more focused on data governance and using the Informatica Cloud Data Governance and Catalog (CDGC) software. The first two modules are recommended for…
May 7, 2025
During the last Data Governance Council meeting, it was announced that new council members will soon join the group. These new members were added to assist with the governance program’s vision to develop clear practices and processes that support data-informed decision-making at UCF. The newly appointed members have extensive experience in budgeting, security, reporting, and…
May 25, 2023
The Data Governance program has organized its first sub-working group dedicated to resolving data issues. This group comprises members of the data governance council, data stewards, and subject matter experts (SMEs) who are responsible for creating and transforming “Location” data elements, such as addresses, workspaces, and classrooms. The main objective of this project is to…
October 6, 2022
Members of the Data Governance Council will set the vision and direction of the data governance program and will serve as an escalation point for resolution of data issues. They will also verify and ensure procedures are established to ensure data quality and improved usability of UCF’s data assets. The activities of the council and…
July 28, 2022
A data governance workshop with over 30 participants from various business units at UCF who work primarily with data, agreed that data governance activities won’t succeed without collaboration across units. More than 91%, in a survey conducted after the event, stated they agreed (33%) or strongly agreed (58.3%) that collaboration with other business units including…
March 30, 2022
The initial phase of implementing Informatica Axon and Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC) is now complete. The two data governance tools have been stood up with our two use cases “Performance-Based Funding Metrics”, and “Locations”, and objects related to them are now searchable in Axon. We have linked data systems, datasets, attributes, people, policies and glossary…
February 18, 2022
Data Governance at UCF is implementing a new tool, Informatica AXON and Enterprise Data Catalog (EDC), that will be used to assist in the governing of UCF data assets. The tool will scan enterprise data in Workday, Peoplesoft and up to 15 systems used at UCF, to capture data about our data. This will include…
August 24, 2021
The Knight Vision Reporting and Analytics Workstream team has launched a new Data Governance website as part of the ongoing efforts to manage data at UCF. The purpose of the UCF’s Data Governance program is to establish and maintain university-wide data-related standards to ease, widen, and accelerate data use while applying appropriate controls to protect data assets. The new website outlines the…