In part 1 of this series, we discussed challenges the Department of Defense (DoD) is up against when dealing with performing algorithmic tasks around different data. In this post, we’ll discuss how we can streamline this process with a solution built using MarkLogic.

Today’s automation techniques are difficult to implement and often result in delayed deployment. This is largely because each new algorithm needs to be implemented with a complex technology stack including security, data

Under constant pressure to respond to new mandates and missions, government agencies are tasked to quickly pivot to align workforce talent to projects, missions and budgets in a manner that cuts wasteful spending, while ensuring staff satisfaction and the overall success of the mission. However, in a reality of increasing budgetary pressure, scarce resources, and restrictive hiring limitations – it’s a growing challenge to ensure each and every employee not only contributes to the mission

Today’s global state of infobesity often leaves us clambering for ways to better integrate and extract value from the astounding amount of data we create and use every day. Government officials and analysts are pressed with the difficult task of making sense of and developing a “big picture” overview of critical information that is stored across disparate data silos – making it difficult to discover and share information at mission speed.

To shine light on the common data challenges

During the last decade, government agencies have collected various data sets, the more the merrier. Inundated with database schemas, documents, emails, web content and XML, agencies are left with daunting integration challenges. Attempts to use existing tools to systematically harvest and correlate data and turn it into insightful information have not been fruitful. Complex manual transformation operations are draining budgets by needing to mobilize IT resources to make sense of existing

“Think about our big data projects. We know that in the same way that the National Weather Service or the development of GPS and satellites created entire new ways that people organized their lives, that in healthcare, for example, there are going to be transformations taking place because of the ability to collect and analyze data and then transmit it in a very individualized fashion …”

– President Barack Obama to Fast Company

In a recent article in Fast Company magazine, President