Stéphane Frere

Data Governance Officer, France Travail

France Travail, France's national employment agency serves 60,000+ employees and ~5 million jobseekers across all French regions. We connect job seekers, employers, and training providers through AI-powered services, statistical analysis, and digital innovation platforms.

Supernova Award Category: 
Data to Decisions
The Problem: 

Our 60,000+ distributed employees across all French regions struggled with fragmented data knowledge, IT-only documentation, and low data culture, severely impacting AI teams developing sensitive algorithmic solutions and lead teams producing critical employment statistics. Teams couldn't quickly identify optimal data for mission-critical projects or build highly reliable KPIs needed for important employment reporting affecting French citizens. The organization required transformation from data silos to unified, accessible data governance enabling precise evaluation of available data while maintaining strict governmental compliance standards.

The Solution: 

We implemented the Actian Data Intelligence Platform, a comprehensive data catalog platform led by our Data Governance Product Manager with dedicated teams and local ambassadors across all regions. The user-centric platform allows AI teams to develop sensitive and strategic algorithmic solutions, lead teams to build highly reliable KPIs about employment statistics, and business teams creating impactful services based on exhaustive data evaluation. Strategic adoption included multiple internal demos and continuous promotion to achieve organization-wide data literacy and unified data discovery.

The Results: 

We achieved 60,000+ potential users with 1,000 weekly active users, with 77% satisfaction across all departments and regions. AI teams were enabled to optimize mission-critical algorithmic projects, lead teams to build highly reliable employment KPIs, and business teams to design impactful services for citizens and companies based on precise data evaluation. Created scalable foundation supporting France's national employment infrastructure with 20,000 documented datasets and 500 business concepts, establishing France Travail as a leader in governmental digital transformation.

Metrics: 

60,000 potential explorer users with 1,000 regular weekly active users

20,000 datasets documented with 30,000 glossary definitions 

500 business data concepts catalogued across 30 connected platforms 

77% user satisfaction rate 

The Technology: 

The Actian Data Intelligence Platform serves as our enterprise-scale data governance and discovery platform, seamlessly integrating with our traditional governmental technical stack. The platform supports 60,000+ concurrent users across distributed locations with comprehensive data lineage, documentation, and compliance tracking capabilities. Cloud-deployed architecture ensures 24/7 availability for France's national employment infrastructure while maintaining strict governmental security standards.

Disruptive Factor: 

This implementation transforms how large governmental organizations approach data management with 60,000+ potential users across our distributed infrastructure. We disrupted traditional public sector data silos by creating unified access for 1,000 weekly active users, exploring 20,000 documented datasets and 500 business concepts. The scale of governmental data democratization with 77% user satisfaction establishes new benchmarks for public sector digital transformation.

Shining Moment: 

When our management control department user declared "the application is intuitive and speeds up daily tasks significantly," it represented our breakthrough in transforming entrenched data silos and low data culture across our massive distributed governmental organization. This moment exemplified overcoming technical integration challenges with traditional systems while achieving organization-wide adoption despite initial resistance through strategic change management and local ambassador networks. The 77% user satisfaction rate across 60,000+ employees demonstrates our success in serving diverse user types, from data scientists to government advisors with unified, trusted data discovery.

About France Travail

France Travail is France's national employment agency, a governmental institution dedicated to connecting job seekers, employers, and training providers across the entire French employment landscape. We provide tailored support to individuals through financial aid, professional development, and training while helping businesses access talent in a dynamic labor market. Our mission-critical services include AI-powered job matching, employment statistics, regulatory compliance, and digital innovation platforms that directly impact French citizens' employment outcomes and support national economic policy.