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27th February 2009

By Udo Hohlfeld

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In Germany, we have a saying: was lange waehrt, wird endlich gut. Literally translated this reads: what needs long time, finally will be good. After more than ten years of development work, Future Point Systems, Inc., a provider of visual information systems (VIS), has licensed the exclusive rights to market Starlight Visual Infromation System (VIS) to corporations, law enforcement agencies, military organizations, and others who have a need to extract new value from very large quantities of heterogeneous data. Intelligence agencies have a natural need for data clarity and are processing large data quantities to bring meaning to those seemingly unconnected data points. Pacific Northwest National Laboratories deveoped such a tool: Starlight VIS. The product consists of three components: Starlight Server, Starlight Client, and Starlight XML Engineering Environment (XEE). Together, these components form a complete visual analytics solution that couples information visualization technologies with advanced information preprocessing and storage and retrieval capabilities. With this product, users are able gain insights and solve problems by identifiying relationships among items in large data repositories. Containing multiple integrated visualization tools, the system can integrate text documents, database records, webpages, geospatial data, video and photos, and other types of information to create awareness in situations of high complexity or uncertainty. According to Future Point Systems, Starlight VIS is not only used by government agencies, but already used by Fortune 500 companies, particularly for the following areas: - All Source Intelligence Analysis - Legal Analytics - Market and Competitive Intelligence - Cyber-Security and Computer Forensics With the high adoption of Web 2.0 way of socializing, communicating and doing business, the mass of data and information is growing at a very high pace. More and more, intelligent tools are needed to gain insights especially from open source information. Starlight VIS is definitely not the last of its kind and Business Intelligence in general will become a mainstream topic, for enterprises as well as for consumers. Sources: http://www.futurepointsystems.com http://www.pnl.gov http://starlight.pnl.gov/

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