A Bespoke Next-Generation Platform for Westat
Discover how Aimpoint Digital built a sophisticated Databricks architecture that allows Westat, a built-on-Databricks partner, to deploy workspaces in minutes.
The Challenge
Westat offers professional research and data science services to government and private sector clients across a variety of industries, with a need to protect sensitive data and enforce governance.
They sought to develop an integrated and scalable platform, so they partnered with Aimpoint Digital to set up a bespoke Databricks instance.
Our Approach
Aimpoint Digital partnered with Westat to build WesLytics, a robust, enterprise-grade data platform designed for scale, security, and insight. As part of the deployment, Aimpoint Digital implemented an infrastructure-as-code framework that automated the creation of Unity Catalogs with advanced tagging. This enabled complete data isolation and precise cost tracking across hundreds of projects.
To further enhance operational transparency, an AI/BI-powered, self-service Project Cost Tracking dashboard was developed, giving stakeholders full visibility into project-level analytics.
WesLytics combines Westat’s domain expertise with the power of Databricks and Amazon Web Services (AWS) to manage, engineer, and analyze data of any type, volume, or origin. The platform delivers actionable insights that help Westat’s clients and partners achieve their goals, while maintaining strict security and compliance standards and streamlining workflows from data acquisition to dissemination.
As a leader in data-driven research and analytics, Westat partnered with Aimpoint Digital to architect and deploy our next-generation Databricks platform. Their intuitive grasp of our needs and agile execution helped us accelerate project onboarding while maintaining governance and cost control—key ingredients in the innovation behind our WesLytics platform.
Results
Infrastructure-as-code enabled seamless creation of Unity Catalogs with advanced tagging, ensuring complete data isolation and precise cost attribution across hundreds of projects.
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A self-service AI/BI dashboard was deployed, allowing stakeholders to track project costs and analytics in real time, enhancing financial transparency and decision-making.
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WesLytics streamlined the entire data lifecycle—from acquisition to dissemination—while maintaining strict security and compliance standards, accelerating insight delivery for Westat’s clients.
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Key Takeaways
Aimpoint Digital successfully deployed WesLytics for Westat, leveraging infrastructure-as-code to automate secure data governance and cost tracking across hundreds of projects. The implementation included a self-service AI/BI dashboard for real-time financial insights and streamlined end-to-end data workflows, enabling Westat to deliver faster, more reliable analytics to its clients.
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