Big Data - Accountability Solutions for Public Sector Programs

© 2011 Smartronix, Inc. www.smartronix.com

Gaurav Pal, Director, Strategic Programs

Enhancing Program Oversight and Integrity through Agile Systems

Development and Advanced Analytics

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• Nearly 90 [DC] city employees suspended for receiving unemployment benefits worth over $800,000 while holding city jobs…Washington Post, Feb 6, 2012

• Federal Office of Personnel Management pays out $601 million in benefits to the dead…GovExec, Sep 21, 2011

• Federal agencies have had estimated improper payments at levels of

more than a $100 billion dollars annually during the past few years.

These payments come from over 70 programs at more than 20

agencies…Sen. Tom Carper, House Hearing Testimony, Feb 07, 2012

• The government spent at least $1 billion last year to conduct more than 2 million background checks of federal job applicants, the report said. Costs have grown in recent years in part because at least seven agencies are spending tens of millions of dollars on separate databases to track personnel records…GAO Report, Feb 28, 2012

Ensuring Program Integrity and Reducing Financial Losses are

urgent problems for Public Sector Agencies

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Program losses are in the news every day…

Smartronix is the leader in innovative transparency, accountability and

oversight solutions

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Deployed Geospatially-enabled

Federal Transparency System in

less than 11 weeks.

Sep 2009

Migrated first Federal Enterprise

System to Public Cloud saving

over $2 million

Apr 2010

First Community Cloud for

Cabinet-level Agency reducing

operating costs by 20%.

Dec 2010

First Geospatially enabled

mobile application for Fraud,

Waste and Abuse reporting

Mar 2011

Advanced Data Analysis

platform for the Public using

Cloud and BI technologies.

Jun 2011

First Real-time Large Data Processing

solution for preventing waste, fraud

and abuse in Federal Awards

Feb 2012

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Relatively low levels of losses in Recovery (ARRA) programs prove that

Agile Business Analytics is an effective tool in preventing and detecting

potential waste and program integrity issues.

Proven Program Integrity Template – Smart Data Hub

Cloud Computing

Big Data

Analytics

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There are too many systems and data sources that need to be

checked which limit the ability to perform real-time verification to

prevent waste

Public sector organizations struggle with high costs and complexity associated

with traditional BI approaches



Centralized Data

Hub

Decision Tables

Decision Trees

Business Rules

Scorecard Models

7-8% Program

Losses

<2% Program

Losses

Advanced Analytics

Framework

Improve Program Integrity

and Reduce Losses

Advanced Analytics Driven Decision Support Model



Recovery Act shows how Advanced Analytics enables decision support

for detecting risk associated with CGL Awards.



Accountability Portal

• FederalAccountability.gov is a portal that supports the Recovery Board’s mission of fraud risk estimation.

• It offers agencies a one-stop-shop to quickly review government and commercial data sources for risk indications prior to any form of award.

• It also offers continued oversight throughout the awards lifecycle.

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Security: FIPS-140-2

Infrastructure: Secured Private Cloud

Mobile Workers: VDI capable / various devices


Deployed Production-ready System

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Risk Profiling and Scorecarding

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Cloud-enabled Business Intelligence

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• Delivered

Agile BI

solution for

“Self-service”

Data Analysis

in 4 weeks

• Integrated

with Microsoft

SharePoint

2010

• Mobile

enabled for

iPhone and

iPad access

Integrated Geospatial Analysis

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COPS Program Spending versus Crime Rates

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Recovery.gov Utilization Chart

• Cloud-enabled Solutions Save Money

Cloud Dividend

• Pay only for what you use when you need it:-Bandwidth-Compute-Storage

• Delivered nearly 30% in cost savings due to elasticity of cloud offering

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Entity Relationship Analysis

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Link Analysis of Business Partners

Deployed Recovery.gov Transparency Platform from scratch in 11 weeks with nearly 20% in cost savings over traditional hosting model

Developed FederalAccountability.gov platform for Federal Awards program integrity and loss prevention in 6 weeks

Decision makers need the ability to quickly access the information they need to make decisions. Our prospective customers consist of:

− Budget and Program Office(s)

− Acquisitions Management

− Financial Management Executives

But existing solutions cost too much and take too long to

deploy…use cloud-enabled Shared Services

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Real-time User Analysis and Results

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1. Select the number that

you want to measure or

analyze

2. Select the filter(s) you

want to apply to the data

3. Filter Dashboard for

keeping track

4. Customize

Visualization type

5. Quick select numbers

and dimension/slice

Advanced BI and Visualization – Data Explorer - Demo

• Rapid ability to drill and customize analysis without need for manual query

generation

DOD ARRA Spending in 2009 by Product Service Code

• Completely customizable solution with fully developed solution delivered in

weeks (not months)

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Trending Analysis

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DOD ARRA Spending on Construction of Structures by Year

Powerful Analysis Through Simple Data As a Service Capability

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DOD ARRA Spending on Construction of Structures Distribution by Agency

Additional Capabilities

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Ability to plug-and-play new

datasets

Add unlimited data for

historical analysis

“Mashup” datasets for data

anomaly detection,

inconsistencies etc.

Fully customizable solution

within days and weeks

Next generation large data

processing architecture

Team Smartronix

• Smartronix engages a broad range of partners and vendors as part of its

best of breed delivery ecosystem.

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Smartronix®, Inc. is an innovative, professional solutions

provider with in-depth experience in global and complex

enterprise environments, supporting Department of

Defense, federal agency and commercial mission-critical

customer requirements.

Rugged & Deployable Data Communication Products

Mobile & WirelessData Communication Suites

Computer & NetworkTest & Management Tools

Custom Engineered Solutions

Rapid Prototype & Design

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© 2011 Smartronix, Inc. www.smartronix.com

Thank youGaurav “GP” Pal, MBA

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Big Data - Accountability Solutions for Public Sector Programs