ESSEC Business School
ESSEC uses DataGalaxy to empower & provide autonomy to its business teams.
DataGalaxy gives us greater confidence in the quality of the data, a better understanding of the different relationships that may exist, and greater autonomy for our teams.
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ESSEC Business School
ESSEC Business School is one of the top universities in France, providing undergraduate, post-graduate, and continuing education services in Europe and Asia. The university is consistently positioned among the leading business schools worldwide and has produced over 69,000 graduates since its creation.
Key info:
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ESSEC’s data & artificial intelligence team knew the university needed a tool to help their data governance, data quality, and the use of artificial intelligence to improve the school’s operational performance.
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ESSEC chose DataGalaxy because of its flexibility that could be adapted to any rising need.
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Today, ESSEC Business School has over 200 DataGalaxy users, each able to use the platform as a central repository for knowledge-sharing.
Industry: Higher education
Headquarters: France
Workforce: 700 employees
Today, we have 200 active users on the platform, who now save an enormous amount of time, for example by being able to contact the right Data Owner to ask questions relating to their scope.
Stéphane Urena
Director of Data and Artificial Intelligence
Project background & strategic challenges
ESSEC’s data & artificial intelligence team knew the university needed a tool to help their data governance, data quality, and the use of artificial intelligence to improve the school’s operational performance.
The team wanted to:
- Centralize all the definitions and applications shared among business lines within a single entry point
- Decompartmentalize all the university’s internal applications, making them accessible to all teams to have an overall view and share a common language
ESSEC chose DataGalaxy because of its flexibility that could be adapted to any rising need.
Data catalog implementation process
ESSEC began implementing DataGalaxy by involving both their technical and business teams with the platform from the start. Together, the teams began populating the tool using their existing CSV files that contained definitions shared by the university’s various teams. They also integrated information from their existing applications and databases using DataGalaxy’s connectors.
Next, Stéphane’s team identified DataGalaxy data owners and data stewards to define responsibility within the platform, and they began setting up both the Business Glossary and Data Dictionary to define terms and create lineage among the various data points and applications.
Results of using DataGalaxy
The benefits of DataGalaxy according to ESSEC
- DataGalaxy highlights the importance of data governance for every business aspect of ESSEC, which contributes to the success of the school’s data strategy.
- DataGalaxy gives ESSEC greater confidence in the quality of the data, a better understanding of the different relationships that may exist as well as greater autonomy for the teams.
- DataGalaxy’s ability to be adapted to any rising need.
Stéphane Urena
Director of Data and Artificial Intelligence
“We were particularly interested in DataGalaxy’s Business Glossary, as we needed to make a set of terms understandable to the school’s staff. The Data Dictionary is also an interesting feature, as it provides a lineage between different applications and databases, giving a complete view of the data lifecycle.”
ESSEC’s data stack
Talend
SQL Server
Power BI
Salesforce