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“ The biggest fear for analysts today is missing intelligence.
The case of 9/11 is a constant reminder. All the data was there to know that something was going to happen,
if not exactly what was going to happen. This is not a problem limited to the intelligence community, but the
consequences of missing intelligence in that world can be much more severe.”
Former analyst |
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| A major problem facing analysts across the
board, regardless of their mission or industry, is the “rotating chair” syndrome. In the past,
analysts would have four or five completely independent systems running on different computers to
do their analysis. They would literally have to swivel their chair to see the different computers
and run similar queries, view different systems and enter multiple passwords multiple times to get
it into the different systems. Hardware evolution has eliminated the literal swiveling from
computer to computer, but analysts are still handicapped by having to use multiple programs that
do not integrate and cannot share data or ideas. |
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these programs aren’t much help if you don’t know what you’re
looking for, or if you’re interested in the composition of
a communications network that has organized around a particular
topic. They can’t tell you who is talking to whom and who the
key influencers are in that network. |
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| And they can’t surface
hidden knowledge and relationships and the unknown unknowns. |
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“iQuest is a single systems that performs the entire analytical lifecycle
on data and gives a single-point view. iQuest can also be easily integrated
with other analytical solutions to augment capabilities in a new and more
informative way. iQuest can be used at any point in the analysis lifecycle
to better facilitate discovery for the analyst.”
Former Analyst
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| iQuest paints a graphic picture in real time of the relationships of people,
ideas and organizations. It provides analysis of complex facts and relationships that
previously were extremely expensive and time-consuming to obtain. It surfaces the unknown
unknowns and unearths thoughts and actions and how they are connected. Moreover, it
gives analysts the ability to get a very quick understanding of the core concepts
contained in a large data set with minimal manual interaction with the data. Analysts
can see over time how concepts and identities become important lose importance or maintain
their status in a network over time. |
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| iQuest discovers predictive
patterns by looking at people, their words, their ideas and their relationships to infer
behavior. iQuest creates value by giving users the ability to draw on those inferences
in developing successful responses to a challenging and difficult digital world. |
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