Case Study
Designing a Modern Cloud Platform Enabling Analytics and DevOps for the Government Department
The Challenge
A Government department that regulates education and development services across Victoria needed to modernise its fragmented on-premises data infrastructure to support a new enterprise-wide information strategy focused on becoming data-driven, democratising access to data, and lifting organisational data literacy. Legacy systems – including the Enterprise Reporting and Business Intelligence (ERBI) data warehouse and multiple eduMasters data hubs – lacked scalability, flexibility, and the ability to support advanced analytics and data science workloads.
To realise its strategic goals, the client required a new cloud-native enterprise data platform hosted on Microsoft Azure. The platform needed to accommodate diverse use cases including data warehousing, analytics, business intelligence, and data science; support agile, concurrent delivery by multiple projects; and be secure, resilient, and aligned with existing departmental skills and technology preferences. We were engaged to lead the architecture design phase of this new platform.
Our Expertise
We led the architecture design for the client’s new Enterprise Data and Analytics Platform (EDAP), collaborating with Information Management, Cloud, Integration, and Cyber Security teams. The aim was to define a secure, scalable, Azure-native platform to support analytics, reporting, and data science workloads.
The Solution
Architecture & Core Technology
Adopted lakehouse and data mesh principles using Delta Lake for storage and Azure Synapse (compatible with SQL Server) for data warehousing, enabling both enterprise and portfolio-managed data products.Analytics & Flexibility
The platform, known as EDAP, was designed for resilience, supporting Power BI analytics, a secure Data Lab for data science, and flexibility with workload isolation and environment separation.Comprehensive Data Flows
Supported diverse ingestion patterns (APIs, files, databases, real-time streaming via Event Hub and MuleSoft) and multiple egress options (Power BI, Tableau, secure FTP, and API delivery).Final Output
The engagement concluded with a detailed Solution Architecture Design document covering logical, physical, network, deployment, and governance principles.Our Impact
The EDAP architecture provided the client with a modern, cloud-native foundation to support secure, scalable analytics and data science across portfolios. It enabled agile project delivery, improved data accessibility, and positioned the platform for future expansion using DevOps-aligned practices.
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