The Public Sector’s Unique Data Challenges
Federal, state, and local and municipal government agencies are grappling with challenges that stem from data—its massive volume, its complexity, its questionable quality, and its many sources.
Government organizations need to be able to access, integrate, and trust their information assets so they can increase operational efficiency, improve service and security, and enhance reporting on performance and compliance.
Increase Operational Efficiency
Your agency or department needs to do more with less. Budgets are tight. Tax revenues are shrinking. IT staff has been cut. You’re struggling with outdated systems and applications. You’re trying to make the most of your current human and technology resources while staying true to your mission—whether that mission is to collect taxes, protect citizens, or deliver health or education services.
To streamline operations, government agencies need to access data housed in multiple systems. Your agency needs to ensure that data is consistent and synchronized across all applications and systems. You need an efficient and economical way to pull data from many disparate sources and create a clean, integrated view of it. How does your agency access and use its data to operate more efficiently and cost effectively?
Informatica can help.
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“Informatica PowerCenter has let us quickly adapt our infrastructure to handle complex file data (such as xml and complex flat files) integration with our enterprise data warehouse with no disruption to our core business processes, and without the time and expense of deploying a new platform. It also allowed us to move to a more real-time model thus improving service to our servicemen and women.”
- Stan Ferguson
Chief, Data Management Division, U.S. Defense Commissary Agency | |
Improve Service and Security
The quality of government services depends on effective information management. Huge volumes of government data—everything from census data to income tax filings to crime statistics—are shared within and across agencies. Some data is made available to the public. Because data can be sensitive—even classified—privacy and security are paramount.
How does your organization obtain a single view of all its data when it’s housed in multiple systems and applications and across different government agencies and departments? How can you be sure that data is accurate, complete, and current? And how do you maintain data security?
Informatica can help.
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“Poor quality and inconsistent data had become major inhibitors to the successful use of technology in crime prevention and intelligence. By introducing Informatica Data Quality, we have been able to align all of our data to internal and external quality standards. This has made a marked difference to the quality of what our information systems can provide to officers on the streets and detectives examining cases.”
- Graham Dawson
Head of Information Services, Humberside Police, United Kingdom | |
Enhance Reporting on Performance and Compliance
To receive funding, your agency needs to comply with performance management reporting requirements, data standards, and many other government mandates and regulations. Compliance depends on your agency’s ability to retrieve, compile, and integrate data from multiple sources. These data sources may not be under your organization’s direct control. But because data is collected and housed in silos—some in outdated legacy applications—it’s difficult to get the right information at the right time.
How does your government agency access all the data it needs? How can you be sure it’s accurate and up to date? How do you track where data comes from, who has handled it, and how it’s changed?
Informatica can help.