Case Study: Police and Border Guard Board (PBGB) achieves improved data quality and faster, better-informed policing with Information Builders' WebFOCUS and iWay

Estonian Police and Border Guard Boosts Data Quality With WebFOCUS and iWay

The Police and Border Guard Board (PBGB) of Estonia, the national law‑enforcement agency serving 1.3 million citizens, was struggling with data quality as its Sybase data warehouse grew—adding roughly 150,000 misdemeanors and 30,000 criminal offenses each year. Analysts needed to automate error detection and ensure source data accuracy so operational reports, resource allocation and policing procedures would be reliable.

PBGB implemented Information Builders’ WebFOCUS BI platform together with the iWay Data Quality Suite and Data Profiler to audit, clean and continuously monitor incoming source data, enforce business rules, and generate daily anomaly reports. The solution automated remediation workflows, cut data‑query turnaround from days to seconds, scaled to about 1,300 users, and produced more reliable analytics that improved decision‑making and targeted public‑safety actions (for example, road‑safety campaigns), enhancing services to citizens.

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Ružena Allas

Police expert analyst