MarkLogic

Today’s Healthcare.gov has come a long way from the cost sinkhole many predicted it would become. Running on some of the most modern database technology in government, the federal health insurance marketplace has enabled 11.7 million Americans to choose coverage options that fit their budgets and lifestyles. But getting there was anything but easy. Innovative thinking and a willingness to adopt new technology were crucial to its success.

Increasingly, post-attack investigations of acts of extremism are beginning to reveal data strategy shortcomings that impact threat management and the screening processes.

As enterprises drown in data, the necessary sustenance of any organization, it might be best to look to Hydrology — the science of water management — to gain insights on how best to manage the deluge.

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.