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- 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 data drill-down, data visualization, and planning.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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 but working towards similar goals.
In order to start this process, the following road map or steps are suggested:
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