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To realize and be consistent with the UCI IT Principle - "Data are critical institutional assets" ( http://www.oit.uci.edu/consolidation/committee/uci-it-principles.php ),  a road map for campus data management and governance are needed. While non existent today, an incremental improvement can be achieved by leveraging the IT consolidation to look at data more comprehensively than previously possible.   Data Warehousing and Decision Support will become most effective once data management improvement is implemented and in reality will be difficult to achieve without it.  Moreover,  the replacement of core administrative and research systems such as the legacy financial ledger and purchasing systems with Kuali FS, Kuali Coeus Research Administration, the UCPath replacement of PPS, and the planned new Student Information System offer a unique and timely opportunity for starting a much needed campus data management program.  

Why Establish a Data Management, Enterprise Data Warehousing and Decision Support Initiative?

1. Consolidate To consolidate and integrate data from multiple sources, including student data, teaching/course load, grants, facilities/space, financials, purchasing,  and payroll in support of campus wide decision making and related information needs such as reporting, analysis, and planning.
2. To provide information that is well-organized, easy to obtain, secure, accurate, timely, consistent, integrated, and appropriately detailed so that people throughout the campus -- staff, faculty, researchers, and executive-level administrators -- will be better able to assess their needs, set priorities, understand the impact of change, and fulfill their program responsibilities more efficiently.  
3. Provide To provide a source of data for the campus that represents an agreed upon "truth", using a pre-agreed upon common interpretation of the data and setting minimum data quality standards; thereby reducing misinterpretation or misunderstanding of data and potential errors.
4. Reduce To reduce the redundant project and programming effort taking place across the UCI campus today to identify, catalog, organize, scrub/clean, and document data that is of common interest;  leveraging FTE resources in a more effective manner and achieving synergies between units that are otherwise fragmented across UCI in data siloesbut working towards similar goals.

In order to start this process, the following road map or steps are suggested: 

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