In recent years, agencies within government have prioritized the adoption of technological solutions suited to driving digital transformation and better serving the public. Strategies, like the one deployed in the US, include key initiatives, including citizen access to key resources across a wider range of platforms, ditching programmatic silos and making open data the guiding principle of the future. In order to achieve this, government will need to invest in solutions that provide flexibility, agility, security and true control over the data and applications that undergird agencies’ most mission-critical processes. Though these agencies have had a reputation in the past for slow movement and late adoption, the rate at which data is growing and expectations are rising has lit a fire under these institutions to embrace the future of data management