Government healthcare agencies like yours are turning to increasing computational sophistication to deal with the huge volumes of data pouring into their organizations. The dilemma you face is how to efficiently deal with the volumes of data, much of which is personal citizen information, including protected health information (PHI). Making effective use of the data, converting them into knowledge about programs, and using that knowledge to more efficiently and effectively manage programs have become new driving priorities from OMB.

Until now, many agency attempts to transform data into business intelligence have proven costly and frustrating. Organizations have developed stove piped systems that do not easily intercommunicate. Data synchronization is difficult. Data quality is more often hoped for than realized. Financial books take months or years to close, requiring manual processes to reconcile data from multiple sources.