Idriss Mekrez

Chief Technology Officer, Public Sector

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The Art and Science of Decision Support
From billion-dollar acquisition programs to national security strategies, federal agencies make hundreds of high-impact decisions each year. Historically, time-consuming manual efforts have been employed in decision support to gather and correlate information, conduct cost effectiveness and risk assessments, and present alternatives to decision makers. Innovative Decisions, Inc. (IDI) has a proven track record of implementing decision support and is now offering an innovative, data-driven decision support solution built on MarkLogic. This solution accelerates decision-making, mitigates risk, and advances adaptability to changing conditions over time.
Idriss Mekrez December 02, 2016
Quickly Align Workforce Talent to Projects, Missions and Budgets
Under constant pressure to respond to new mandates and missions, government agencies are tasked to pivot quickly 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. That’s a tall order. But, when built upon a foundation of secure, flexible database technology – all of these goals are within reach.
Idriss Mekrez November 04, 2016
MarkLogic Wins Di2E Plugfest for DCGS-SOF
Congratulations to Marianne Myers, Brent Perry, Sheila Stewart and Ken McCaleb for their victory at the Defense Intelligence Information Enterprise (Di2E) Plugfest. They represented DCGS-SOF during “Operation Upshot Mashup,” aiming at creating a cloud-based set of services to take field intelligence and send it to be translated, analyzed, and summarized and ultimately made searchable by the enterprise.
Idriss Mekrez October 19, 2016
Geospatial Analysis 2.0: True Situational Awareness
Blogs, reports, drone video feeds, mobile photos — and geo data — are all essential to geospatial analytics. Find out how integrating these data sources into GIS systems allows real-time analysis of the world — so you can make better decisions, faster.
Government Data and Knowledge-Based Information Management
Complex manual transformation operations are draining budgets by needing to mobilize IT resources to make sense of existing data instead of delivering insights to decisions makers. Here’s how a semantic layer allowed the harnessing of knowledge — as well as data.
Idriss Mekrez January 20, 2016
Update from the GEOINT Symposium
The GEOINT Symposium is the preeminent event for the defense, intelligence, and homeland security communities. This year GEOINT celebrates its 10 year anniversary, and MarkLogic is present in force down in Tampa to show how Enterprise NoSQL is making difference today in the community. At the symposium, MarkLogic is demonstrating our latest innovation in the […]
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