Case Study: The City of Rochester improves data security and access with data.world

The City of Rochester - Customer Case Study

The City of Rochester adopted a new data governance policy and needed a better way to manage its many scattered databases, applications, and informal datasets. With limited visibility into what data existed, who owned it, and who could access it, the city struggled with outdated records, security risks, high cyber insurance costs, and slow internal processes such as public records requests and reporting. To address this, the city evaluated data.world as a data catalog and system of record.

By implementing data.world, The City of Rochester centralized information about its data assets, improved security and visibility, and made data easier for staff and constituents to discover and access. The public portal capability was a key benefit for sharing data externally, while self-serve discovery helped save time and money. As a result, the city was able to reduce risk, lower cyber security insurance rates, and even hire and train a data governance leader to support future initiatives.

The City of Rochester

Alyssa Montgomery

Information Services Developer