AWS Partners help public sector organizations harness the power of data

The challenge of becoming a data-driven organization

Organizations deal with ever-growing data volumes. The Worldwide IDC Global DataSphere Forecast, 2023–2027, estimates that 129 zettabytes will be generated this year and will more than double by 2027. This means that growth-minded businesses must put data at the heart of every application, process, and decision. How you use your organization’s data is the key to accelerating innovation and accomplishing your organizational goals.

However, finding ways to put the increasing number of data streams to work for your organization can be a challenge. Only 23.9 percent of companies describe themselves as data-driven, and a mere 20.6 percent claim to have successfully developed a data culture within their organizations, according to NewVantage Partners’ Data and Analytics Leadership Annual Executive Survey 2023.

Organizations recognize that becoming data-driven is vital for future-proofing their businesses and making impactful decisions that are based on evidence, not gut feelings. But for many sectors, including the public sector, it can be difficult to harness the technical expertise needed to achieve this. Amazon Web Services (AWS) and AWS Partners can help fill that gap.

How AWS and AWS Partners can help unlock more value from your data

AWS provides a comprehensive set of data capabilities designed to help government, education, nonprofit, and healthcare organizations analyze and interpret data, optimize data strategy, and break down silos. These capabilities provide insights around your data to help you compete, grow, and serve your customers’ needs, now and in the future.

But AWS delivers more than just analytics, business intelligence, databases, machine learning, and generative AI, among many other services. We also support businesses through a global network of trusted AWS Partners doing business with public sector organizations in more than 150 countries. Our partners have proven skills that can help you deliver greater value for your business, increase agility, and lower costs.

In our network of AWS Partners, you’ll find partners with proven expertise in services like Amazon Textract and Amazon Comprehend, which can help public sector organizations with intelligent document processing to meet electronic records requirements. And services like Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2), Amazon Redshift, and Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) help to extract, store, and archive data.

By engaging with an AWS Partner, you can harness data and analytics to drive innovation, see results quicker, and create customizable solutions for your customers based on past, accurate data. AWS Partners are strategic experts and experienced builders with deep technical knowledge and proven customer success. So, whatever your organization needs to access its data assets, there’s an AWS Partner ready to help you accelerate your data journey.

6 public sector success stories with AWS Partners

Here are six customer success stories that show how AWS and AWS Partners have worked with public sector organizations to unlock the power of their data and deliver significant business benefits.

1. The US Navy and AWS Partner GBL Systems Corporation worked together to develop FutureOrb ID, which uses artificial intelligence (AI) and facial recognition, to streamline authentication for access to restricted spaces, improving both staff experience and security. In less than a year, FutureOrb ID went from concept to prototype.

2. AWS Partner Spin Systems (SpinSys) helped the US Defense Health Agency (DHA) migrate its data center to secure regions on AWS GovCloud (US) to host its sensitive data. Taking just 93 days, the migration cut provisioning time by 99 percent and helped the DHA unlock projected savings of $33 million over 5 years.

3. The city of Grand Island, Nebraska needed a cloud-based solution that it could use to build its budget more efficiently. Working with AWS Partner OpenGov on a new solution, Grand Island’s finance department saved 1,000 hours of manual labor—equating to half the time of a full-time staffer.

4. With the help of AWS Partner Unleash live, the Miami-Dade County Department of Transportation and Public Works harnessed data to adapt and enforce COVID-19 social distancing regulations, enhancing public safety.

5. Girls Who Code (GWC) and AWS Partner Salesforce worked together to create a data warehouse solution that provides GWC with access to real-time, centralized data about current students and programs. GWC can now create and deliver reports faster because it no longer relies on manual processes to prepare data.

6. Fulton County, Georgia worked with AWS Partner Tyler Technologies to implement a data sharing platform based on the Tyler Technologies Enterprise Data Platform, gaining a centralized location for connecting and sharing data across agencies. It can now quickly scale to add more data systems and sets without purchasing or managing new hardware.

Harnessing the power of data with AWS Partners

Download the eBook Harnessing the power of data with AWS Partners to learn more about these diverse data-driven initiatives that bring positive outcomes to public sector organizations. The eBook explores the benefits of developing a data-driven strategy and how modernizing your data infrastructure can open up new opportunities for your organization to innovate, grow, and deliver better results.