Solution Briefs

This industry solution brief shares key insights on how federal agencies can use Collibra to build a common foundation for data enabling them to securely and quickly govern data, protect classified and sensitive information, and enable data integrity at scale.

Below is an excerpt from the brief. To read the full brief, [click here]

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Overcoming data challenges

Federal agencies operate in a highly complex and regulated data landscape with petabytes of data residing in hundreds of disparate data sources. These sources are spread across on-premises, hybrid, and even multi-cloud environments.

Data citizens – including Chief Data Officers, data scientists, data stewards, and government employees at large – are unable to easily find or understand the data they need. It is difficult for users to ascertain if the data comes from a trustworthy source, whether it is certified, or approved for use. In other words, data citizens are unable to fully appreciate the corpus of data and its relevance for use in their applications.

For any agency, the inability to find the right data combined with data integrity issues, a lack of data governance, transparency, and traceability of data can adversely impact their ability to serve constituents or critical missions in a timely, efficient, and secure manner.

To address these issues, the Federal Data Strategy and the Foundations for Evidence-based Policymaking Act provide a framework for agencies to overcome data silos. The goals of these initiatives are to make data available, accessible, re-useable, and shareable. This requires the implementation of a rigorous data intelligence and management strategy that accounts for all data assets created, collected, controlled, and maintained by each agency.
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