Data to Insights
D2I integrates modern cloud-scale technologies and analytics to support the public mission of UT Austin. We collaborate with campus partners to re-engineer the flow of abundant data from various sources — generating insights that drive institutional decision-making.
The UT Data Hub is evolving to a campus self-service model — putting data, reporting, and analytics capabilities directly in the hands of every college, school, and unit.
The Data Hub is Moving to Campus Self-Service
Every CSU will be able to directly access, integrate, and build from the Data Hub — no intermediary required. D2I is expanding spoke environments and tooling so colleges, schools, and units can work with their own data alongside campus-wide sources independently.
D2I-Managed Tools
D2I manages three enterprise platforms that give the UT community access to reporting, visualization, and data cataloging at scale.
The Insights Service helps the UT community find existing and new reports, visualizations, and dashboards from a single, trusted location.
- Centralized catalog of campus reports and dashboards
- Searchable by topic, data domain, or CSU
- Single source of truth for institutional reporting
- Accessible to all faculty and staff
D2I manages the campus Tableau Enterprise account — servers, licenses, and governance — enabling staff to create and publish interactive data visualizations.
- Enterprise server hosting and administration
- Desktop licenses for data producers
- Publish and share dashboards campus-wide
- Integrates with the UT Data Hub and local CSU data
Alation is UT Austin's campus metadata management tool — a catalog of data sources and documentation that supports the informed, trusted use of data.
- Glossaries, articles, and data governance policies
- Cross-reference definitions across data sources
- Flag data quality issues and crowdsource knowledge
- Discover and document campus data assets
UT's Next-Generation Data Ecosystem
The Data Hub is UT Austin's foundation for data integration and management — an industry-leading cloud architecture designed to meet the growing need for data and analytics capabilities across the institution.
D2I is transitioning the Data Hub to a campus self-service model. Each college, school, and unit will have a spoke environment where they can access campus-wide data alongside their own CSU data — building reports, pipelines, and analytics without requiring D2I to intermediate every request.
Find Your Data Role
The D2I Engagement Levels Matrix provides guidance to UT staff to enhance existing competencies and develop new skills for working with trusted data, reports, dashboards, and the UT Data Hub.
Determine the level most relevant to your role to:
- › Understand how your CSU can engage with data and analytics
- › Identify relevant skills and technology for your needs
- › Consider what positions might be beneficial on staff
- › Connect to recommended on-demand training opportunities
Training Resources
Staff at every engagement level are encouraged to explore on-demand training to build the skills needed for their role with data at UT.
Services in Transition & Development
D2I is actively migrating legacy systems to the Data Hub while simultaneously building reusable campus services in partnership with institutional stakeholders.
UT Data Hub
UT's next-generation data ecosystem based on industry-leading cloud architecture. The Data Hub serves as the integration layer that will power campus self-service analytics, reporting, and data pipelines at every level.
Legacy Data Services
D2I continues to operate essential legacy data services while coordinating an orderly migration and retirement plan with business process owners and users. Services are migrated to the Data Hub over multiple years to ensure continuity.
Organizational Hierarchy Service
Universities have complex structures and systems. The organizational hierarchy service will accurately crosswalk multiple types of UT data among data sources to enable integrated analytics — essential for D2I Analytics and broadly useful across campus.
Role-Based Access (RBA) Service
D2I is working with UT partners to plan a new campus role-based access service that will simplify and enable policy-compliant access to UT reports. This service will reduce administrative overhead while maintaining appropriate data governance.
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