Analytics in Service of Smart Government

Government organizations continue to improve their ability to manage rapidly growing information demands. This motivates a desire to become more data-driven in delivering services to citizens, requiring the ability to ingest and manage massive volumes of data, improve information exchange, interpret structured and unstructured data, and most importantly, employ analytics to proactively address challenges that are persistent in the public sector.

This paper discusses the opportunities for tools and technologies for enabling and simplifying big data analytics despite the aging and complex legacy infrastructure.