Data profiling
An assessment of duplicates, gaps and conflicting values in the systems that hold each data domain.
Industry context
MDM, PIM and data quality in education
We give each party, product, supplier or asset one trusted record, with matching rules and stewards agreed by the business.
Master data work is about matching rules, data ownership and stewardship rather than software alone. We profile your data, agree the rules with the business and set up the workflows people use to keep records correct.
Schools and universities plan around the academic calendar, with admissions, exams and term breaks deciding when change is possible, and they answer to regulators such as KHDA in Dubai, ADEK in Abu Dhabi and the Ministry of Education in Saudi Arabia. Academic leaders and campus IT need to agree each change, so we time go-live between terms wherever possible. Arabic and English spellings of the same name, national ID and commercial registration numbers, and UAE and Saudi address formats each need their own matching rules.
We hand over with runbooks and training, and can stay on under agreed service levels.
Alongside sector regulation, we often map delivery evidence to cross-industry baselines such as the UAE Information Assurance Regulation issued by TDRA, the NCA Essential Cybersecurity Controls in Saudi Arabia and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework, which many risk reviewers already use.
How the work is organised
From design to stable operation, with the evidence academic councils, data protection officers and regulators ask for.
Matching and survivorship
Rules for matching records and choosing the trusted value, agreed with the data owners.
Stewardship workflows
Queues and approvals for data stewards, with quality measures reported to data owners.
Education regulators and data
We plan reporting and data handling around the requirements of your regulator, such as KHDA in Dubai, ADEK in Abu Dhabi or the UAE Ministry of Education, or the Saudi Ministry of Education, and the personal data law that applies in each market.
Bilingual matching
Match rules that handle Arabic and English names, transliteration variants and local identifiers.
Distribution to consuming systems
Trusted records published to ERP, CRM and analytics through agreed interfaces.
Checks before you start
Master data work is ready to start when a business owner will decide the rules and the systems that hold each domain are known.
- The data your regulator expects in its returns has been identified.
- A business owner for each data domain in scope has agreed to decide matching and quality rules.
- The systems that create and change records in each domain have been listed.
Plan MDM, PIM and data quality in education
Share your current systems, compliance themes and timeline. We will return a phased plan, a staffing model and a risk register for your stakeholders to review.