About the Program
The Common Data Platform (CDP) is a joint strategic initiative between Budget Analysis & Planning, Data Management, and Information Technology Services (ITS), along with key business partners, to deploy a cloud-based modern data stack. This initiative will centralize and secure our enterprise data and implement automated data pipelines from source to target in near real time. It will enable a transparent data modeling methodology and promote a collaborative data culture.
The CDP will develop an enterprise data model (a single source of facts) to support data at scale from multiple domains/systems (e.g. student, human resources, finance, facilities) and collaboratively develop curated, trusted data that will be available for reporting, analytics, integrations, etc. As part of the CDP, and with the commitment from executive leadership, a cross functional, campus-wide data governance process will be developed and implemented. The CDP will improve the information experience for decision-makers and analysts by bringing actionable insights through modern business intelligence tools.
THE LEADERSHIP TEAM
Program Sponsers
- Kimberly Register, AVC Budget Analysis & Planning
- Aisha Jackson, Vice Chancellor of Information Technology
Program Managers
- Jessica Duffy, Director of Data Management
- Laurie Eppler, Director, Business Enterprise Systems
CDP Solution Architect
- Todd Graham, Solutions Architect, Data Management
THE DATA TEAM
As the CDP foundations are put in place, our Data Team is largely comprised of centralized technical resources from Data Management and ITS with analyst resources from IRAPS. The goal as CDP continues to be developed is to transition to a Hub-and-Spoke model where centralized services deliver data engineering and institutional analytics (the hub) in partnership with data analysts and business analysis (the spokes) embedded within individual units across campus.
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THE STAKEHOLDERS
You are a CDP Stakeholder if...
...you support or use reports from tools such as InfoView and Tableau
...you enter data into information systems
...you support an information system that shares data within another system
...you wish certain reports existed
...you wish certain data sharing existed between systems
As you can imagine, this covers many of us here at UCSC. With each domain that is brought into the CDP, our team needs engagement with Subject Matter Experts (SMEs) like you to be successful. See the Roadmap for which domains are being developed when and how to get involved.
If you have specific questions, please reach out to cdp@ucsc.edu
