Integrating Data and Systems

Focus on integrating data and systems to prepare for next-generation enterprise IT.
Next-generation enterprise IT efforts aim for agility, scalability, cost effectiveness, and effective analytics. Integration of data across multiple systems is a key element of the work.

Enterprise IT Case Studies

In this set of EDUCAUSE Review case studies, see how three institutions are addressing the challenge of data integration as they move into the next generation of enterprise IT.

Integrating Data Across Enterprise Systems

Helping Tie It All Together Integration Platform as a Service as Part of the Next Gen Enterprise	August 24, 2017 EDUCAUSE Live! webinar that addresses the benefits of Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS) as a way to manage data integrations
Big Data in the Campus Landscape	A series of Working Group papers that addresses issues associated with using big data in higher education
IT Service Delivery in Higher Education	2015 ECAR study describing shifts in the management of enterprise services
EDUCAUSE Analytics Services	EDUCAUSE Analytics Services provides higher education leaders with insights on peer institutions and benchmarks.
Cybersecurity Program	Help with information security related to system data
EDUCAUSE Library page on Compliance	EDUCAUSE articles, papers, and presentations to help you create reliable structures and measures to ensure success and minimize failure
EDUCAUSE Library page on Data Administration and Management	EDUCAUSE resources on data management, including information about data integration

Recommended Reading

Background

• Enterprise Architecture Practices: A Holistic Approach for Planning Next Generation Services

• Is It Deja Vu all Over Again?

• The Promise and Performance Enterprise Systems Key Findings

• Alternative IT Sourcing Strategies: Six Views

• Enterprise IT Perspective on the 2017 Top 10 IT Issues

• Preparing the IT Organization for the Cloud

• Institutional Analytics and the Data Tsunami

• Who is Doing our Data Laundry?

• The IT Service Organization for a Post-Enterprise World

Implications Across the Institution

• Resources for Presidents and Senior Executives: Administrative Systems and Services

• Emerging Technologies: Data Integration, from AACRAO: web hub for information and resources related to the data integration challenge