Omnis, Inc. is an American technical and scientific consulting and training firm. It also has a concentration in

market intelligence Market intelligence (MI) is gathering and analyzing information relevant to a company's market (economics), market - market trend, trends, competitor and customer research, customer (existing, lost and targeted) monitoring. It is a subtype of com ...

and the emerging field of threat finance. It was founded in 2004 and has clients in government, academia and private industry. The company is located in

McLean, Virginia McLean ( ) is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County in Northern Virginia. McLean is home to many diplomats, military, members of Congress, and high-ranking government officials partially due to its proxi ...

, near

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Technology research and consulting

Omnis, Inc. is a global consulting firm with a concentration in the physical sciences, engineering, aerospace, defense,

intelligence Intelligence has been defined in many ways: the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. It can be described as the a ...

and finance. The company works with those in government, academia and private industry. In 2008, Omnis recruited

Wall Street Wall Street is an eight-block-long street in the Financial District of Lower Manhattan in New York City. It runs between Broadway in the west to South Street and the East River in the east. The term "Wall Street" has become a metonym for ...

professional Christina Ray to develop a

practice. Ray heads Omnis’ practice in this area. She is an expert in computational finance, and is the author of several books, including the most recent one, Extreme Risk Management: Revolutionary Approaches to Evaluating and Measuring Risk.Leadership and Management
Omnis, Inc. Retrieved July 23, 2011 Her interests and focus of activities involve the fusion of risk measurement methods used by the Intelligence Community and the financial community in areas that involve low frequency, high consequence events. In particular, she is involved in the fusion of structured and unstructured data for purposes of the creation of enhanced

predictive analytics Predictive analytics encompasses a variety of statistical techniques from data mining, predictive modeling, and machine learning that analyze current and historical facts to make predictions about future or otherwise unknown events. In busin ...

models used to provide early warning of tactical and strategic threats. For example, market data from the financial markets might be fused with news data for purposes of enhanced predictive ability,

situational awareness Situational awareness or situation awareness (SA) is the perception of environmental elements and events with respect to time or space, the comprehension of their meaning, and the projection of their future status. An alternative definition is tha ...

, and

sensemaking Sensemaking or sense-making is the process by which people give meaning to their collective experiences. It has been defined as "the ongoing retrospective development of plausible images that rationalize what people are doing" ( Weick, Sutcliffe, ...

. In this effort, she and the domain experts that support the Omnis efforts utilize advanced methods appropriate to “ big data”, including

machine learning Machine learning (ML) is a field of inquiry devoted to understanding and building methods that 'learn', that is, methods that leverage data to improve performance on some set of tasks. It is seen as a part of artificial intelligence. Machine ...

and topic-code modeling. Omnis researchers are investigating a mystery painting by

Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre Nicolas Benjamin Delapierre (c. 1739 – 24 January 1802) was a well-known and highly regarded France, French artist during the second half of the 18th century. Career Although he began and ended his painting career in France—he was a stud ...

known as " Portrait of a seated gentleman". The goal of the research is to determine both the identity of the subject and its

provenance Provenance (from the French ''provenir'', 'to come from/forth') is the chronology of the ownership, custody or location of a historical object. The term was originally mostly used in relation to works of art but is now used in similar senses i ...

before 1928.

Training and education

Another area of activity for Omnis, Inc. is training and education. It specializes in critical thinking, analytic methodologies, problem solving, leadership, and a variety of other topics.Training and Education
Omnis, Inc. Retrieved July 23, 2011 In leadership training, Omnis focuses on employing the psychological principles of positive reinforcement.

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External links

Omnis website

Omnis consultant Charles Duelfer on ''60 Minutes''
CBS News (March 13, 2011). Retrieved May 16, 2011
Rachel Maddow interview with Charles Duelfer
''The Rachel Maddow Show'' (February 27, 2009). Retrieved May 16, 2011 2004 establishments in Virginia American companies established in 2004 Companies based in McLean, Virginia Consulting firms established in 2004 Consulting firms of the United States