The amount of data and information that federal agencies must attend to is growing, but agency technology and information management budgets are shrinking. In fact, in its FY2014 budget guidance, the OMB has asked that all agencies reduce their IT budgets by 10 percent. How will agencies cope with these divergent trends? Many are turning to big data analytics, which describes a new generation of technologies and architectures designed to extract value from very large volumes and varieties of data. As structured and unstructured data sources multiply (including full motion video, emails, voice, social networks, sensor-enabled facilities, web, and biometrics data), agencies are recognizing that effective long-term data governance and storage strategies are critical. By adopting big data analytics, agencies can not only save money, but improve their mission effectiveness through enhanced decision-making abilities, operational intelligence, increased transparency and the elimination of fraud, waste and abuse.
Join FCW and GTSI for a Technology Leadership Series on "Big Data Analytics in the New Budget Reality" to be held February 27, 2013 at the Hamilton Live in Washington, D.C. Bringing together speakers from across civilian and DoD agencies, as well as top industry data analytics providers including event sponsors Teradata, NetApp and Cisco, this event will provide guidance to senior government leadership on the use of big data to improve mission delivery, efficiency, services and capabilities. The event will include an overview of successful case studies and implementations in the federal government and demonstrate how traditional and emerging technologies can be used to reduce costs and improve performance.
Attendees of the half-day event will learn:
- An overview of the big-data challenges facing federal agencies
- What reduced IT budgets mean for big data
- Best practices in big data analytics, including common tools and methodologies
- How to extract value out of unstructured and structured data to enhance decision-making or ferret out fraud, waste and abuse
- The future of big data in the federal government
