Real-Time Data and Public Sector Modernisation

Why Operationalising Data in Real Time is the Key to Transformation

Published September 2019

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Big data projects have proliferated across the public sector over the last decade.

Whether driven by legal and policy compliance or by organisational improvement, state and federal agencies have created entirely new divisions focused specifically on delivering the sweeping transformations promised by big data projects.

It’s clear: from cyber security to economic analysis to citizen segmentation, the benefits and uses of big data in the public sector are real and practically endless.

But, just as in the private sector, it can sometimes be hard to wrap one’s head around big data, especially as it relates to the buzzword/concept that has recently usurped it in those circles: real-time data.