From mountains of data to actionable insights

How government can overcome the data explosion as a barrier to insights

The data generated by government cloud initiatives is becoming more varied, complex, and distributed, with new technologies, services, and capabilities being adopted every day.

According to McAfee and McKinsey, today’s organisations use an average of 1,935 unique cloud services. In government, this is often more - and with each new service come new data formats and standards, connectors, and access methods.

Data is scattered across different applications running on clouds and buried in complex IT environments across government. This makes it challenging to access, index, and organise all the critical information necessary to generate actionable insights. Further, data silos block security visibility, and it takes longer to detect and respond to security threats.

Whether it’s document repositories, application performance metrics, or key security logs, many organisations are currently struggling to uncover meaningful insights from their data.

Four steps to actionable insights

To inform better decisions and provide constituents with more tailored experiences, public sector organisations must find a way to translate all of their data into real-time, actionable insights.

So what can you do to make all of your data actionable?

This eBook from Elastic and Google Cloud provides a step-by-step guide.

Elastic on Google Cloud for the UK public sector

Put your data to work to drive actionable insights with Elastic on Google Cloud. Elastic is partnered with Google Cloud to enable you to build Elastic enterprise search, observability, and security solutions on Google Cloud so you can start drawing powerful insights from your data, in minutes.

Whether your business is early in its journey to the cloud or well on its way to infrastructure modernisation, Elastic on Google Cloud provides the search solutions you need to turn data into actionable intelligence so you can make better-informed decisions.

Elastic provide a seamless migration path from other clouds or on-premises installations to a fully managed service on Google Cloud, reducing the friction of moving workloads to the public cloud and giving customers the ability to focus on their digital transformation and business outcomes rather than worrying about IT operations.

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