Andrea Di Maio, a senior consultant for Government and a renowned analyst in Gartner has the following to state about digital road maps for Government
"Government CIOs must consider that, while digital government strategies are mostly focused on citizen service, their main and more sustainable benefits will come from the transformation of internal data and processes."
The is applicable to Government in India too. Sharing data among employees of different departments and states is vital in increasing efficiency of the functioning of the government.
This need again reiterates the need for rapid data aggregation platforms that can assimilate data into a central data store. The user access for such a data store can be governed by a robust data sharing policy among stakeholders within Government. It is now the right time for state government to invest in robust data aggregation platforms. The data aggregation platform may first be employed to aggregate master data across apps and harmonize them. This can offer tremendous benefits in offering powerful data analytics to decision makers within the Government.
Important features of such a data aggregation platform
- Such a platform comes with rapid form definition capabilities to define forms for data capture along with business rules for validation.
- API to populate data into the back end tables of such forms that may be consumed from external apps.
- It is desirable for forms to have capabilities to store non structured data and store them in flat file systems with appropriate meta data tags.
- API for apps to read data from the data store with appropriate permissions.
- Disconnected data exchange servers to exchange data between two apps without doing an online integration. This kind of a data exchange can ensure easy implementation and near real time.
Apxert is one such plaform from Agile Labs that can be effective used to aggregate data across apps.
