Running Grand Central StationIntegrating Data From Multiple Sources

Notes and Hashtags #17NTCdataintegreation Collaborative Notes:

http://po.st/17NTCdataintegration

Isaac Shalev President, Sage70, Inc.

Sage70 is a consultancy devoted to making technology work for nonprofits

15 years of experience working with Data, CRM, and Tech Strategy

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Transactional Database Defined as a database in which any

transaction can be rolled back More usefully:

A Transactional Database support business processes and workflows, typically in real-time

You’ll usually have more than one!

Reporting Database Also called a data warehouse or data-

mart Take the load off of your transactional

database Data is optimized for querying May be fed by multiple data sources or

databases

What’s Hard For You?• Who’s in the room?• What systems do you use?• What kinds of data and reports are hard to get?• Do you vendor? What do you vendor?• Do you have a data warehouse? BI tool?

Data CentralizationWouldn’t it be great if there was one central place where all your data lived?

Data CentralizationWait! Would it really be great if there was one central place where all of your data lived?

Silo City Wait! Would it really be great if there

was one central place where all of your data lived?

Effective Communication Culture of communication IT systems with high data accessibility

and visibility Business tools (logic models, KPIs,

scorecards, etc.)

Data Governance Who owns the databases? Standards for data hygiene, data

quality, completeness, and consistency Maintaining data flow maps Assessing impact of new tools Compliance, pre-empting rogue

databases Aligning data with strategy

Isaac Shalevisaac@sage70.com(917) 859-0151@sage70inc

Evaluation Linkhttp://nten.org/17ntc-evals/