In this three-part blog series on decision support, we will examine the latest decision support innovations brought to the DoD and intelligence community by Innovative Decisions, Inc. (IDI). In this first post, we introduce IDI, its areas of expertise, and explore the reasons it chose to build its Decision Support solution on an Enterprise NoSQL database.

Welcome to 2015! The New Year is a time to take stock of lessons learned in previous years and plan for the future; perfect to evaluate what is working well and not so well — in life and business. Understanding the past and trying to predict the future is what analytics is all about. Sometimes with careful analysis you can catch a single event, a tipping point (as Malcolm Gladwell famously wrote), which takes you in another direction. It could be a simple bold move such as an investment in