Government agencies lose billions of dollars each year to improper payments caused by fraud, abuse and error, mandating proactive, modern solutions to eliminate financial loss and ensure public funds are used for their intended purpose.

 Databricks and Carahsoft hosted an exclusive state and local webinar on November 20 on how to combat fraud, waste and abuse. They explored how leading agencies are overcoming the "effectiveness gap" caused by data being fragmented across different organizations.

Attendees learned how to empower program integrity and audit units to:

• Assign a real-time fraud risk score to every payment or application

• Uncover hidden networks of colluding entities using graph analytics

• Automatically flag anomalous transactions invisible to traditional systems

• Unify all relevant data into a single source of truth for effective detection