The large scale that higher education institutions operate at adds a lot of complexity when dealing with the movement of data. Often, there are communication issues between departments in regards to data. Receiving data from a department for a statutory report can take a long time, and the quality of the data is still unknown. The number of different departments adds further complexity, hassle and time. Furthermore, compiled reports often can not be viewed by the right people easily (transparency issues) and the same report can be compiled by two different departments without communication between them. The business challenge at hand involves developing a platform in which data can be trusted at source, data quality is verified, reports are visible by other people (and the right people), responsibility is given to data custodians and that there is an automated process of compiling statutory reports.