The Office of Data Governance and Analytics serves the Commonwealth of Virginia by advising state agencies regarding policies, standards, and best practices concerning the creation, maintenance, analysis, and dissemination of data, coordinating data analytics, and business intelligence for the executive branch agencies, and providing leadership regarding state data analytics and transparency. ODGA is also responsible for collecting, analyzing, and exchanging government information, ensuring the security of that government information, identifying data integration and business intelligence opportunities generating greater efficiencies in state agencies, departments, and institutions, leveraging data from transactional systems for enterprise-level state business intelligence and lastly, ensuring data integration and sharing is performed in a manner that preserves data privacy, security, and confidentiality in transferring, storing, and accessing data, as appropriate. Mission: To maximize the value of Commonwealth data through strategic governance, secure and appropriate data sharing, and enterprise analytics services informing actionable intelligence that helps Virginians live better lives. Vision: To inspire the global evolution of data from information to actionable intelligence providing better outcomes for everyone.