Case Study: Spain's Ministry of the Interior achieves real-time threat detection and improved public safety with OpenText (IDOL & Vertica)

Spain’s Ministry of the Interior protects the public’s fundamental rights to safety and security. Its mission includes thwarting terrorism, crime, and other threats

Spain’s Ministry of the Interior, responsible for public safety and countering terrorism and organized crime, needed a faster way to share and analyze the growing volume of real-time data from state police, national security, immigration, prisons and traffic authorities—as well as corroborate intelligence with EU partners—to mitigate threats and protect citizens.

The ministry implemented a Micro Focus big data platform powered by IDOL and Vertica that fuses dispersed agency databases into a single, searchable engine and ingests structured and unstructured data (text, images, audio, video) in real time. The solution improved threat detection and traveler surveillance across all transport modes, sped information sharing with EU agencies, scaled easily with growing data, includes audit controls for legal compliance, and has already increased operational effectiveness while helping to minimize risks and save lives.

Spanish Ministry

Antonio Garcia de Alamo

Head of IT Projects