Progress update: July 2025
Enterprise Data Platform expands onboarding, completes security review, and advances automation
The Enterprise Data Platform (EDP) continues to support secure, scalable data sharing across Washington state agencies. With strong interest from partners, the platform is gaining momentum as a foundation for cross-agency collaboration and modern analytics.
Here’s what’s new:
- 12 agencies are currently onboarding: Recent consultations have focused on aligning use cases, readiness, and access needs—helping agencies take practical first steps toward platform adoption.
- Security review complete for Category 3 data: The EDP environment has successfully passed its security design review, clearing the path for sensitive data workloads to move forward with confidence.
- Supporting Change from Within: OCM Strategy and Toolkit in the Works. Adopting enterprise data sharing on a statewide platform requires more than technology—it involves change at multiple levels within and across agencies. To support this, we’re developing an Organizational Change Management (OCM) strategy and toolkit to help agencies manage internal shifts and partner engagement as they onboard to the EDP. The toolkit will include practical resources, messaging templates, and onboarding guides designed to reduce friction and meet agencies where they are. While still in development, this support will be a core part of the platform experience—making progress achievable, no matter your starting point.
- Terraform-based automation in progress: Infrastructure provisioning and environment setup are now being automated using Terraform. This reduces manual effort, improves consistency, and accelerates onboarding timelines.
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.