First, CIA envisions pay-per-use software business model as the way forward, to mitigate budget deficits and more options in terms of choosing the latest technology to meet challenges and to reduce vendor lock-in. This is bad news for big boys and good news for start-ups.
Secondly, CIA lamented that existing solutions in the market which claims to handle big data fail to live up to the expectation.
Reginald Brothers, deputy assistant secretary of defense for research, told the conference that existing software tools for data analysis, management and interaction lagged the vast amounts of information that drones and other high-tech U.S. military sensors were vacuuming up.
What this means is that it lacks automation to create insights.
For more information, refer to CIA to software vendors: a revolution is coming
