The Data + AI Platform for State and Local Government

Power real-time decisions with data. With a lakehouse architecture, public sector organizations can both rapidly ingest data at scale and make insights available across the value chain in real time. Speed is critical when governments are looking for decision advantage, which is why forward-thinking organizations across the public sector are using a lakehouse to power real-time operations with data.

A lakehouse architecture delivers on the promise of real-time data, with the maturity that organizations demand from modern data platforms. Delta Lake simplifies the change data capture process while providing ACID transactions, scalable metadata handling, and unified streaming and batch data processing. Delta Lake also supports versioning and enables rollbacks, full historical audit trails and reproducible machine learning experiments.

Improve the accuracy of decisions. With lakehouse architecture as the foundation, organizations can perform the largest analytics while meeting the ever-growing needs of citizens and other constituents. You no longer need to sacrifice accuracy or breadth of analysis to achieve your mission goals. Lakehouse architecture allows you to scale analytics to the largest of jobs and deliver highly accurate analytics while meeting operational needs by using all types of data.

Use all types of data. Only 5%–10% of an organization’s data is structured. Tapping into the other 90% of data helps leaders better understand the environment around them and make better decisions. The Data + AI Platform for Public Sector has native support for all types of data — structured and unstructured, like images and video — which allows organizations to make better-informed decisions.

Inexpensive and open collaboration. Public Sector leaders must collaborate with one another and their commercial partners in real time, but existing data sharing technologies are expensive and often require that all parties invest in the same proprietary technology. The Data + AI Platform for Public Sector leverages Delta Sharing to provide an open and secure method of data collaboration and sharing for public sector agencies. This inexpensive approach unlocks the power of collaboration with all partners in the value chain.

Public sector organizations have decades’ worth of data captured from constituent information and transactions. Much of this data sits captive in silos and is unable to be shared across departments, to outside agencies and to commercial partners. The challenge? In order to make informed decisions, data insight is critical and reliant upon having a complete view of information across the organization, but security and privacy are top concerns.

Databricks Marketplace, underpinned by the powerful capabilities of Delta Sharing, streamlines this and enables organizations to quickly integrate new data in their environment in a period of hours and days. They can also leverage new models and apps and even share data with other partners via secure data clean rooms.

The impact of generative AI and large language models (LLMs) on society is growing by the day. Within the public sector, practical applications for innovations such as ChatGPT and Dolly are widespread — including open source intelligence, streamlining constituent service with intelligent chatbots, regulatory compliance assistance and more — all with the goal of enhancing citizen outcomes and delivering on the organizational mission.

The fuel that makes an LLM run effectively is high-quality data, and lots of it. The Databricks Data + AI Platform provides the underlying architecture and tooling to harness constituent and operational data to easily deliver generative AI and LLM models to the entire organization. With a unified platform for all data types — structured, semi-structured and unstructured — the lakehouse architecture enables agencies to power their AI initiatives with all the data necessary.

On top of the unified platform Databricks provides, we have developed free, purpose-built guides — fully functional notebooks and best practices — that speed up results across the most common and high-impact public sector use cases. Read our blog: LLMs in the Lakehouse: a quantum leap forward for the public sector to help you get started today or check out our latest solution accelerators.