i2 Analyst's Notebook

Data analysis and visualization for effective intelligence analysis

IBM® i2® Analyst's Notebook® is a visual intelligence analysis environment that enables government agencies and private sector businesses to maximize the value of the mass of information that they collect. It allows analysts to quickly collate, analyze and visualize data from disparate sources. It reduces the time required to discover key information in complex data and to deliver timely, actionable intelligence to help identify, predict, prevent, and disrupt criminal, terrorist, and fraudulent activities.

With data analysis and visualization capabilities organizations can:

Rapidly piece together disparate data into a single cohesive intelligence picture.
Identify key people, events, connections, patterns and trends that might otherwise be missed.
Increase understanding of the structure, hierarchy, and method of operation of criminal, terrorist and fraudulent networks.
Simplify the communication of complex data to enable timely and accurate operational decision making.

Rapidly piece together disparate data

Piece together both structured and unstructured data, from a variety of sources, into a single cohesive intelligence picture.
Import a wide range of data types including telephone call records, financial transactions, computer IP logs, and mobile forensics data.
Quickly identify non-obvious duplicates within data from multiple sources with intelligent matching capabilities.

Identify key people, events, connections and patterns

Quickly gain insight and understanding in to data, using multiple analysis views within Analyst’s Notebook, including association, temporal, spatial and statistical views.
Rapidly filter out unimportant information and identify key areas of interest or connections, patterns, and trends in complex data.
Flexible visualization allows for effective analysis of relationships within networks through to critical timeline of events.

Increase understanding of the structure, hierarchy, and method of operation of criminal, terrorist and fraudulent networks

Use integrated Social Network Analysis capabilities to help identify key individuals and relationships within networks.
Gain greater insight into behavior patterns or pattern of life using powerful timeline and heat matrix views.

Simplify the communication of complex data

Create intuitive and easy-to-follow visual briefing charts that capture and organize supporting data for briefing and presentation purposes.
Easily integrate information and visualizations into intelligence reports with i2 Analyst’s Notebook.