Understand Federal Big Data and Maximize Value to Support Your Agency's Mission
Big data is not new to government. Government organizations have been collecting and storing substantial amounts of data for years, ranging from census statistics to tax figures, from social security details to satellite images. The federal government currently stores an average of 1.61 petabytes of data—a figure that’s anticipated to balloon by as much as 30 percent over the next two years.
As these volumes grow rapidly, government agencies are looking to leverage federal big data to support their missions and improve overall program outcomes and performance. But they face complex issues in adopting a federal big data strategy: bandwidth, storage capacity, retrieval, security, computational power, and trained personnel. The greatest challenge for government organizations in managing federal big data lies in their ability to harness its power and turn data into actionable information.
The Informatica Solution for Big Data in Federal Government
The Informatica solution for big data in federal government helps agencies to capture and store big data. It enables them to analyze, augment, aggregate, and correlate federal big data in such a way as to garner new, better, and predictive information never available before.
With this solution, you can:
- Efficiently integrate, analyze, and disseminate massive volumes of federal big data
- Work with Hadoop without committing to a single Hadoop platform
- Boost productivity by managing, ingesting, and correlating structured, unstructured, and semi-structured data from any source, in any format, in any language
- Streamline decision making and operational intelligence and provide predictive capabilities to improve mission outcomes
- Innovate new business models and stakeholder services
- Improve operational efficiencies by replacing or supporting human decision making with automated algorithms
- Eliminate waste, fraud, and abuse and increase transparency by making federal big data more readily available and referencing data and trends when formulating policy
- Enable more rapid response to security threats and potential criminal activity by detecting obscure relationships and event sequences within federal big data
Key Capabilities of the Informatica Solution for Big Data in Federal Government
Unlike competing offerings, the Informatica solution for big data in federal government leverages the synergy of big data and business intelligence to help answer complex government questions, shape public policy, and improve outcomes across government programs and services.
Based on a single, comprehensive platform, this solution addresses the challenges of federal big data and takes full advantage of Hadoop by providing the following capabilities:
- Universal access to all types of big transaction data: RDBMS, OLTP, OLAP, ERP, CRM; mainframe and cloud; big interaction data, including social media data; log files and machine sensor data; Web sites, blogs, documents, emails, and other unstructured or multi-structured data
- High-speed data ingestion, enabling access, loading, replication, transformation, and extraction of federal big data between source and target systems or directly into Hadoop or your data warehouse
- Data parsing and exchange of complex, multistructured, unstructured, and industry standard data such as Web logs, JSON, XML, and machine device data; availability of prebuilt parsers for market data and industry standards such as FIX, SWIFT, ACORD, HL7, HIPAA, and EDI
- Metadata management, including data lineage, auditability, and standardization
- Data quality and data governance to profile, cleanse, and manage data, to increase understanding of federal big data and trust in its quality, and to manage its growth effectively and securely