In-Q-Tel Invests In 2 Cloud Technologies
September 26, 2013
Grazed from InformationWeek. Author: Patience Wait.
In-Q-Tel, the investment arm of the U.S. intelligence community, has entered into strategic partnerships with two cloud-oriented software developers, one specializing in data harvesting and presentation and the other offering remote mobile application testing.
Seattle-based Socrata offers a software platform that allows analysts to turn raw data from many different kinds of sources into useful information and output the results in the form of dashboards, application programming interfaces, apps and visualizations. The company focuses exclusively on ways to improve access to government data for citizens, employees and developers through its GovStat, API Foundry and open-data portal products. Socrata counts a number of governmental entities among its clients, including the World Bank, Medicare, Data.gov, the states of Oregon and Maryland, and Chicago, San Francisco and New York City…
"The Socrata data platform is quick to deploy, easy to use, and can be adapted to a wide range of applications, allowing business analysts to do what data scientists have historically done," said IQT’s Robert Ames, senior VP of information and communication technologies, in the press release announcing the deal…
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