This lets you mine and analyze information in context—emails alongside field reports, immigration records next to open source content streams—to determine and classify information and its relative sensitivity. In civilian facing applications, MarkLogic Server gives your users the ability to retrieve the information they need down to any level of granularity, for example, a section, paragraph or table, instead of links to lengthy web pages or documents. Sophisticated alerting applications let users save queries of interest, and be notified as new content arrives or is updated. With the powerful geospatial services capability, data tagged in a variety of popular geographic XML standards, including GeoRSS/Simple, KML and GML, applications can search within a radius, bounding box, or arbitrary polygon area.

MarkLogic Server gives you a platform for building delivery applications that act as an XML integration hub, providing a single, comprehensive repository of information. Not only does this reduce costs and ensure consistency across delivery channels, it gives you the agility to deliver information in context. Intelligence analysts can access and analyze the same information on the web that soldiers are using in the field. And public applications can deliver the same content through multiple channels to ensure constituents are fully informed, whether they’re online, mobile or reading a printed guide.

MarkLogic Server also makes new information deliverable in real time, regardless of its source or format. It loads and indexes content as it’s created or changed, avoiding the built-in lag time between acquisition and indexing that hinders enterprise search-based applications. Utilizing the alerting features users no longer need to wait until their next query to find relevant information. The system automatically notifies users when content associated with their profile is updated or new content arrives, and can also be configured to trigger actions and escalations. This means personnel in the field are all making decisions and acting on consistent, current information, and constituents have a transparent and timely view into their government.

Metadata repositories often store information from a range of sources which means that the metadata can often have different XML structures. MarkLogic Server easily and quickly ingests metadata and provides uniform access across those structures without requiring you to normalize them to a single structure. It enables organizations to create services (RSS, REST, SOAP, etc.) to handle inbound queries (high query rates) and push information out as required. Metadata is often available in very large volumes so scalability is an important capability. MarkLogic Server is in production with some deployments exceeding 100 Terabytes of information.

By integrating content from multiple sources into a single repository, MarkLogic Server enables you to perform deep, meaningful and actionable information analysis. Through its flexible query mechanism against structured, semi-structured, and unstructured information, MarkLogic Server lets you identify patterns, recognize relationships and reveal insights that relational database and search solutions are incapable of uncovering. For example, MarkLogic Server can infer structure from document formats or augment structure using enrichment techniques such as entity extraction, geo-tagging or automated categorization. This additional metadata can then be mined to reveal patterns and relationships, giving your analysts unique views of your information allowing them to more quickly synthesize, evaluate, and take action.

Analytics capabilities based on existing structure, or structure added using automated techniques, is easily leveraged to provide rich exploration and visualization interfaces of your content. Faceted navigation based on entities, or heat maps displaying query results overlaid on a geopolitical map, help users quickly narrow down large information bases to get users to exactly the content they need. Analytics can also assist users in discovering previously unknown relationships, using co-occurrence to identify pairs of entities in real time, sorted by frequency.

Custom publishing solutions powered by MarkLogic Server let editors, analysts, and end-users search through content from multiple sources, select chapters, tables or even paragraphs, combine them with annotation or new content, and assemble it into a new document. They can then publish those documents in the format, and for the device, of their choice. This lets you deliver role- and task-specific information to all of your audiences, whether they’re diverse stakeholder groups in a large public project, constituents, analysts or soldiers in the field. Only MarkLogic Server has the content repository, aggregation and delivery capabilities necessary to give you this much flexibility and control over the publishing process.

Using MarkLogic Server, agencies are building knowledge management systems that integrate information from various sources to provide a web-based central repository of knowledge on a specific topic or that support a critical mission. MarkLogic Server powers role- and task-aware knowledge management and information sharing applications with search, browsing and delivery capabilities. This ensures that your users access up-to-the-minute information when and where they need it.

Knowledge management applications built on MarkLogic Server provide web 2.0 capabilities, enabling you to incorporate user feedback and comments into your knowledge management system. This adds context that makes information more relevant and valuable, and facilitates collaboration across groups. For example, intelligence analysts can exchange insights with each other to piece together seemingly unrelated events and people. And personnel in different locations can share and access information in real time, contributing to the success of the overall mission.

Built specifically to handle XML content, only MarkLogic Server has the capabilities—such as content delivery , aggregation , search and faceted navigation —required to power real-time content analysis across terabytes of information. By using MarkLogic Server as your platform, your intelligence analysts can quickly find, analyze and understand the patterns and relationships in your information. Unlike relational database and search solutions, its combination of full-text and XML search lets you mine content down to the granularity of individual elements, such as “name”, “location” and “date”.

MarkLogic Server’s custom publishing and online content delivery solutions also let you assemble information from multiple sources into intelligence reports and other documents. These can then be delivered to your audiences in print or online, on any device. This makes your intelligence actionable immediately, whether it’s a briefing for policy makers or an electronic dispatch for soldiers in the field.

Defense departments are unique in the volume of information they work with, as well as the complexity of that information. MarkLogic Server’s content repository supports net-centric warfare by scaling to accommodate hundreds of terabytes of content from various sources while maintaining sub-second response times. Furthermore, once loaded into the repository, information can be put to use immediately. For example, search and discovery solutions can use the new information to provide warfighters with up-to-the-minute, consistent and situationally-aware answers to questions so they can observe, orient, decide and act.

MarkLogic Server also provides departments with a platform to deploy custom publishing and content delivery solutions. Content from multiple sources can be combined into new documents and dynamically delivered in any format to any device. As your mission or requirements change, content can quickly be enriched to enable new applications and features.

MarkLogic Server’s content integration capabilities let you bring together content from sources inside and outside your agency into a single, powerful repository. On top of this platform, you can develop content syndication solutions that ensure all of your offices and personnel have ready access to the digital assets and content they need. You can also enhance sharing and collaboration within and between departments with custom publishing and online content delivery solutions that provide users with the content they need to do their jobs.

MarkLogic Server can also be used to power contact center and self-service applications that provide service representatives and citizens with concise answers to their questions, not just links to static documents. With its structured, full-text search and faceted navigation interfaces, MarkLogic Server gets people to the exact information they need, faster.

MarkLogic Server brings content together from various sources in multiple formats to give you a unique view into your information. Built specifically to handle XML content, it lets you perform deep, meaningful analysis on terabytes of information to discover actionable patterns and relationships. For example, officers and analysts investigating a crime can put together highly detailed briefings about suspects using content from multiple sources. Those briefings can then be delivered online to field offices and wirelessly to officers in their cars.

By bringing together content from multiple sources, MarkLogic Server also lets you better share and use information across agencies. Without any pre-processing or manual conversion, content from any source is immediately available as soon as it’s received and loaded into MarkLogic Server’s repository. This means that the search and discovery applications your analysts and officers rely on always retrieve the most current answers to their questions, and you are able to deliver situationally-aware information to those who need it, when they need it.

MarkLogic Server gives you the ability to provide personalized content in any format, on any device. This starts with aggregating your digital assets into a system that ensures all of your departments, offices and personnel have ready access to the same underlying content. At the same time, you can provide targeted information to internal and external groups with custom publishing solutions that dynamically build new documents with tables, chapters and other components from multiple sources. These can then be delivered in print, online or both depending the audience’s context.

These content integration, publishing and delivery capabilities let you increase efficiency and lower your costs, while at the same time you provide citizens with better service and communication. For example, MarkLogic Server can be used to power contact center and self-service applications that deliver the same, concise answers to questions whether citizens dial 311 or look for information on your website. This is because MarkLogic Server integrates all of your content into a single repository that both your call center search and discovery solution and your online self-service application access.