Progress update: September 2025
Strengthening our shared foundation for cross-agency data collaboration on the Enterprise Data Platform
This week's progress on the Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) reflects our commitment to making onboarding smoother, supporting organizational change, and building technical capabilities that meet real agency needs.
Helping agencies navigate change
Adopting enterprise data tools often involves shifts in people, processes, and partnerships. To support this, we’re building an Organizational Change Management (OCM) Toolkit to help agencies manage internal change and partner engagement as they prepare to onboard.
- The OCM toolkit survey has launched to help tailor tools to agency needs.
- Change management procedures have been updated with clearer, more actionable guidance.
- A training plan and guide is in development to support agency onboarding teams.
Improving the onboarding experience
We’re continuing to make onboarding more predictable and coordinated:
- The EDP Success Toolkit survey is ready for release and will inform continued improvements to onboarding support.
- We completed internal dry runs to validate handoffs and ensure a smooth onboarding experience.
- A new Onboarding Tracker is helping us monitor where agencies are in the pipeline, identify roadblocks, and better coordinate support.
Advancing platform capabilities
The platform continues to evolve to meet practical data-sharing needs:
- Processed over 1,000 contract records using new PDF data extraction tools.
- Launched automated encryption compliance alerts to support policy alignment.
- Developing a Washington-representative synthetic dataset to support testing and prototyping.
- Creating a Power BI map demo using publicly available data to showcase how EDP can support spatial analysis—for example, identifying areas underserved by healthcare providers.
Expanding agency engagement
Engagement continues to grow as more agencies explore EDP capabilities:
- 16 agencies are actively engaged through consultations or onboarding.
- Multiple Proofs of Concept (POCs) are in motion to explore agency-specific use cases.
- Held the first quarterly “Getting Started with EDP” session for agencies in the onboarding pipeline—offering a hands-on preview of how to ingest, transform, and visualize data on the platform.
- Delivered custom 1:1 training to support early adopters based on intake readiness.
About the program
The Enterprise Data Program is Washington’s statewide effort to enable data-driven government through a coordinated strategy, robust platform, and effective governance model. At the core of the program are three integrated pillars:
- Enterprise Data Strategy – our north star for statewide data alignment.
- Enterprise Data Platform – the tools and infrastructure for sharing and analyzing data.
- Enterprise Data Governance – the standards and roles that ensure accountability and quality.
Each pillar supports and reinforces the others, forming a comprehensive framework for advancing enterprise data maturity across state agencies.
The three pillars
1. Enterprise Data Strategy: Our Enterprise Data Strategy outlines the vision, priorities, and action plans for statewide data excellence. It aligns with the Washington State Strategic IT Plan and supports efforts to enhance transparency, efficiency, and innovation through better data practices.
2. Enterprise Data Platform: The Enterprise Data Platform offers agencies scalable, secure technology to store, share, and analyze data across organizational boundaries. It is designed to support data integration and exchange, enable advanced analytics and business intelligence, and promote agency collaboration through shared data environments.
3. Enterprise Data Governance: Robust governance ensures that state data is accurate, secure, and ethically managed.
We are building statewide standards and collaborative processes to define clear roles and responsibilities, enhance data quality and stewardship, and ensure compliance with privacy and security requirements.
Why this matters
“Data is a foundational asset for the state's digital government efforts.”
— Washington Enterprise Data Strategy, 2025
Through the Enterprise Data Program, Washington is creating a future where agencies make evidence-based decisions faster and with greater confidence, residents have greater trust in government data practices and opportunities for innovation and public value creation are expanded.