Case Study: The State of Arizona’s Department of Water Resources achieves sustainable water management with Pentaho Data Catalog

The State of Arizona Manages Water Resources More Sustainably with Pentaho Data Catalog

The State of Arizona’s Department of Water Resources needed a better way to manage huge volumes of water data spread across transactional databases, a data warehouse, document management systems, and spatial data. New staff struggled to find key datasets, and the department also needed automated data quality and a business glossary, but lacked the resources for manual work. It turned to Pentaho Data Catalog to support more sustainable water management.

Pentaho implemented Data Catalog with customized data discovery, metadata profiling, automated migration, and cybersecurity support. The platform was trained with machine learning to recognize structured data and establish lineage, and the full discovery and migration were completed in just two weeks with minimal downtime. As a result, the department gained centralized metadata, faster data search, better trust in data quality, and clearer lineage, helping staff spend less time finding data and more time managing Arizona’s water resources.

The State of Arizona’s Department of Water

Lisa Williams

Manager, Office of Enterprise Data Management