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SAP Intelligence Analysis for Public Sector by Palantir

Transform Data into Insight to Help Communities Run Safer and Better

Challenges • Derive meaning from disparate systems

and complex information sources • Manage large volumes of structured

and unstructured data • Integrate data across departments,

agencies, and country borders

Key Features • Data integration – Connect all your

data sets in one open platform • Search and analysis – Search all data

and conduct relational, temporal, geo-spatial, statistical, behavioral, predictive, and network analysis

• Collaboration – Share data and intelli-gence securely across teams, organi-zations, and countries

• Development toolkit – Leverage an open application programming interface to add features and broaden your reach

• Knowledge management – Access and store investigations and analytic conclusions in a central repository while maintaining an interactive history and audit trail

Benefits • Anticipate threats better by examin-

ing extensive data all at once, testing hypotheses in real time, and drilling down quickly

• Save time by automating hundreds of tasks that analysts currently do manually

• Improve decision making by inter-preting timely, accurate information

• Improve response times through fast data processing and extensive collabo-ration tools

• Deliver better services through a comprehensive tool set that can be implemented in weeks

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SummaryThe SAP® Intelligence Analysis for Public Sector application by Palantir helps intel-ligence experts analyze and collaborate on massive amounts of data to see patterns and identify potential terrorism, crime, and fraud. Robust functionality for analysis, collaboration, and visualization radically changes how groups examine and share information. The result? You can anticipate and decide better.

EMPOWER DECISIONS TO ADDRESS A SPECTRUM OF CONCERNS

SAP Intelligence Analysis for Public Sector empowers decision makers at every level. This best-of-breed solution provides robust analytics that enable analysts to combine fragments of data that are spread across a vast array of sources to tell the larger story. It helps address a spectrum of safety and secu-rity threats we face today.

With this solution, an analyst can begin an investigation and achieve results within hours or days rather than weeks. That’s

because the software automates hundreds of tasks that are currently performed manually. It offers powerful tools for information management with full-source tracking, fine-grained access control, flexible data modeling, and data ingest – all with a powerful and intuitive interface. By putting advanced features at the fingertips of information analysts, the solution breaks down barriers to expedite intelligence analysis, discovery, and sharing (see table).

CONNECT ALL YOUR DATA SETS INTO ONE LOCATION

Public agencies with a mission involving safety, security, defense, and fraud pre-vention need to quickly derive meaning from complex data and information sources to determine the best course of action. The solution combines a powerful back-end database and server architec-ture to integrate structured data sources, such as message traffic, and unstructured data sources, such as pictures, link charts, spreadsheets, third-party intelligence, video feeds, and documents.

The software features an open plat-form, so it is completely interoperable with other software tools you are using today. The object explorer feature gives you a fast, top-down view of your entire database, no matter how large. You can readily draw on any type of structured or unstructured data.

SEARCH, ANALYZE, AND CORRELATE YOUR DATA

With an intuitive front-end user interface, you can use the software to search, ana-lyze, and correlate data to detect patterns that indicate a threat. You can share, design, and customize your search and standardize complex searches to put them into action quickly for future investigations.

Combining the search features with powerful visualizations like histograms, timelines, and charts, analysts can test hypotheses and build formulas that drill down into any subset of interest. With map presentation features, you can freely add symbols, images, and annotations and draw polygons of areas of interest for future investigation. These maps can

For safety and security agencies, information is power. Being armed with technology that enables analysts to quickly analyze and act upon intelligence is an effective weapon in the battle against terrorism, crime, cyberthreats, and fraud. That’s where the SAP® Intelligence Analysis for Public Sector application by Palantir can help. The software provides a robust and intuitive tool set to support analysts in conducting full investigations – for intelligence breakthroughs and informed decisions.

Feature Capability

Nexus Peering Collaborate securely across locations

Object explorer Look at all of your data at once

Interface Work in a clear, organized, and intuitive environment

Tagging Multiselect, drag and drop, and double-click information

Feeds Have the data come to you instead of you going to it

Publishing Publish incremental findings and keep working

Search Share, design, and customize search templates

Graph Correlate data and visualize your findings

Free draw on map Make ad hoc annotations to maps

be converted to geographic search results that are easily transferred to a graph for further analysis.

SHARE DATA AND INTELLIGENCE SECURELY

SAP Intelligence Analysis for Public Sector enables secure information sharing across agencies and organizations in real time while providing the strongest protection of privacy and civil liberties. Nexus Peering technology removes barriers so you can share, update, and publish information and ideas throughout your global network. A powerful classification system, man-ageable by administrators on the front end, controls access and permissions while keeping the world’s most sensitive information secure.

ACCESS AND STORE INVESTIGATIONS

After analyzing information and making links among people and activities that warrant a closer look, SAP Intelligence Analysis for Public Sector serves as a searchable central repository for every investigation and analytic conclusion. The solution maintains an interactive his-tory of every object in the database. Every edit to database records is recorded in an audit log. If you have a question as to

why a link among data points was created, you can see what the link is, why it was made, and by whom. These features save analysts time by consolidating functions that previously required multiple appli-cations with unique end-user training requirements.

ADD FEATURES AND BROADEN YOUR REACH

With its open platform, SAP Intelligence Analysis for Public Sector connects all your data sets, enabling endless analytic possibilities. The software takes this flexi-bility and scalability a step further with an open application programming inter-face. You can leverage it to readily expand your analytic abilities. Extensibility points provide options for adding features or extending search functionality as analytic needs and workflows evolve.

MAKE INTELLIGENCE BREAKTHROUGHS AND ENABLE INFORMED DECISIONS

SAP Intelligence Analysis for Public Sector helps public agencies take on the world’s most important challenges. As an ana-lytical application, the software enables intelligence experts to mine both struc-tured and unstructured information to

detect fraud, waste, and abuse at the earli-est possible opportunity. By leveraging the software, intelligence experts and the agencies they serve can:

• Collaborate more effectively with inter-nal stakeholders and external partners

• Be better prepared and prevent threats and risks from causing harm

• Provide the right information for agen-cies, officials, citizens, and businesses to act on

• Improve response times and capabilities to deliver relevant assistance more quickly

• Resolve safety and security situations quickly before they escalate

• Deliver services that meet expectations and agreed-upon standards

• Accelerate the recovery of victims, communities, businesses, and regions following a major event, incident, or natural disaster

This best-of-breed solution provides robust analytics that enable analysts to combine fragments of data that are spread across a vast array of sources to tell the larger story. It helps address a spectrum of safety and security threats we face today.

interface. These software applications, coupled with the skills and thinking of intelligence analysts, add power to your investigations. They allow agencies to effectively address end-to-end intelligence analysis scenarios in situations involving homeland security, fraud, public safety, public security, and counterterrorism.

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ADD ANALYTIC AND CASE MANAGEMENT POWER

SAP Intelligence Analysis for Public Sector is enhanced with SAP BusinessObjects™ Text Analysis software. SAP BusinessObjects Text Analysis can be leveraged to extract names of people, companies, places, events, and other key data from unstruc-tured documents. These documents can come from any source the solution is able to access. The combination of these soft-ware solutions is an ideal solution for working with large amounts of documents and allows users to take full advantage of an automated process from the SAP BusinessObjects Text Analysis engine.

By integrating with other SAP for Public Sector solutions such as the SAP Investi-gative Case Management for Public Sector package, you can support your full inves-tigative lifecycle within a role-based user

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