State Government – Big Data Lake Platform

For the department, helping the government by analysing data and restructuring their portfolio, mitigating risk and fraud and enabling smarter insights, by combining big data with high powered analytics was imperative. 
Use Cases:
• Implementation of Statewide Data Lake
• Unstructured Data Analytics including FRS and Audio
• Integration with SAS and other Analytics Platforms

Business Challenges
• Lack of Single source of truth for all departmental data.
• Lack of robust compute platform to withstand unstructured data analytics

Solution Proposed
• Robust Infrastructure
• Big Data Platform
• SAS Data Integration
• SAS Visual Analytics
• SAS VDMML
• Onsite Workforce
1 Data Architect
2 Hadoop Admin
3 Developers

Solution Implemented
• Successfully implemented Data Lake
• Implemented Hadoop Data Platform environment with 700 Terabytes capacity for Research and Analytics.
• Integration with SAS platform for Data Management, Statistical, Advanced Analysis and reporting

Customer Benefits
• The proposed stack enabled the department to use this datahub as a unified source for both data mining and analytics.
• Enabled government with better insights and decision making derived from data.
• In addition to being cost effective, it was also more flexible and faster as data stored from multiple sources, which implies secure, quick and fail-safe storage of massive data.
• Capability for unstructured Data Analytics including Audio and FRS.