Govini: Offering Public Sector Business Intelligence through Big Data

Big Data applications have yet to penetrate the largest market on the planet. While government spending accounts for 40 percent of the U.S. GDP, Govini Founder and CEO Eric Gillespie saw that contractors were not able to capitalize on the massive amount of unstructured data these agencies create. “These are the largest companies in the world and they need to keep growing their businesses, but they had no way to keep up with the data volume and velocity,” says Gillespie. “From military drawdowns to healthcare reform, government markets are changing and the companies serving them need to leverage data to define their strategic priorities, inform their decisions on evaluating adjacent markets, and take share from competitors. That’s where Govini helps our clients follow the money and master their markets.”

Since transparency laws make every government document and budget detail available to the public, Gillespie and his team designed a business intelligence platform that catches this data spray, then ingests, normalizes, and standardizes it. “We’re taking disparate data sets and mashing them up in a way that allows our clients to see around corners,” he explains. “Govini captures all publicly available government spending, which by itself is an invaluable resource, but then we layer on analytics, using those historic events to calculate the probability of similar, future events.”

This Big Data approach is quickly setting the Govini platform apart from its competition. Other solutions in the market rely on a traditional analyst model to gather, interpret, and input data, providing only a partial view of spending and limited search capabilities. Govini brings the competitive advantage of stronger market intelligence to answer critical strategy questions. C-suite executives use Govini analytics to visualize changing market dynamics, market size, opportunity qualification, competitive positioning, and partner profiling across a wide range of verticals that include Aerospace and Defense, Information Technology, Business Services, Construction, and Healthcare.