Data will only be useful if it is understandable and it will only be understandable and meaningful if it contains the right information, believes Marc Melviez, CEO, Luciad.
What are Luciad’s core solutions and application areas?
We are traditionally specialists in defense, intelligence and aviation. They have been our key and core business. However, today we are getting fantastic demands from other domains such as telecom, insurance, banking, logistics, transportation, port and airport security, and indoor location. We are going from macro-level geospatial information to really spatial information for people moving inside shops, for instance, and determining how they move and what they look at. There are a lot of things we have learnt from the defense world that we can today apply to new domains.
You joined Luciad in 2004 when it was just a start-up. How has been the journey so far?
The journey has been quite interesting. I joined Luciad as the CFO when it was a small company and was a team of enthusiastic people. Now it is much larger company with even more enthusiastic people. With the advent of things like Google Maps and Google Earth, maps have taken much larger place in our lives. We have seen a tremendous interest not just from the specialist communities but from the public as well. I think this is great because we are only at the beginning of the journey. So, yes 12 years at Luciad but I see the future as even more interesting.
You mentioned geointelligence community as your first and foremost clientele. What are their major concerns today?
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