Winner Of The 2012 Government Big Data Solutions Award

The Government Big Data Solutions Award was established to highlight innovative solutions and facilitate the exchange of best practices, lessons learned and creative ideas for addressing Big Data challenges. The Top Five Nominees of 2012 were chosen for criteria that included:

• Focus on current solutions: The ability to make a difference in government missions in the very near term was the most important evaluation factor.
• Focus on government teams: Industry supporting government also considered, but this is about government missions.
• Consideration of new approaches: New business processes, techniques, tools, models for enhancing analysis are key.

The top five honorees for the 2012 award include:

• Veterans Health Administration: New Big Data approaches and frameworks provide data and tools for 20,000 clinicians to track medical trends, better anticipate outcomes. The scope of the data set is over 80 billion data files. Focused on service to 25 million veterans. Judges selected Veterans Health Administration because of the impact and best practices in Big Data solutions...