Progress update: December 2025
Accomplishments
- Implemented cross-cloud cost alerts across Azure, AWS, and Databricks to improve cost transparency.
- Added new content to the EDP Success Toolkit, including refreshed onboarding materials and updated training resources.
- Advanced core engineering work on the distortion ledger and entity-resolution pipelines, completing major processing steps and starting validation.
- 16 agencies have been consulted, with several already onboarded.
Work in Progress
- Developing the State Data Office (SDO) Playbook, One-Pager, and supporting visuals to help agencies prepare for upcoming SDO processes.
- Undergoing a website review of SDO programs and providing recommendations to improve structure and clarity.
- Enhancing the EDP onboarding tracker to give agencies clearer visibility into onboarding status and touchpoints.
- Continuing work on metastore configuration, access roles, and cloud policy updates across AWS and Azure.
- Organizing and migrating Wiki content to centralize onboarding guidance and support materials for agencies.
- Ongoing collaboration with the State Data Office on communication materials and playbook refinements.
- Preparing final validation steps for December entity-resolution testing and integration with downstream processes.
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.