Use case: Exposing department data
Goal
The Department of Transportation within the State of Colorado exists to ensure a safe and efficient highway system by building and maintaining interstates, U.S. highways, and state highways. The State was looking to expose transportation data to relevant internal and external stakeholders.
Challenges
- Siloed data management made cross-functional reporting and applications highly dependent on manual sharing
- Unknown sources of data lead to different metrics being reported
- Delays in data frequency forced decision makers to rely on outdated data
Solutions
- Used APIs to expose and integrate multiple department databases and systems
- Connected data and built APIs for 10+ stakeholder groups to access relevant data, information, financials, permits, assets, and more
- Enabled staff and partners for improved service delivery
Results
- Dramatically reduced time to share data between teams from days to seconds
- Created re-usable data services
- Integrated 6 essential systems
- Enabled stakeholders to have real-time, self-service data access
