The Problem: Dealing with Staggering Volumes of Information
Intelligence agencies around the globe are challenged by staggering volumes of information. This is fuelled both by rapidly expanding communications volumes, as well as enhanced collection techniques. Government agencies are struggling to analyze and make sense of this data in the available time windows.
These massive volumes of data impact the intelligence agency's ability to fulfill critical missions including analyst review, data mining and de-classification processes. Tools are needed that expedite the data review effort, while enabling analysts to focus and prioritize their efforts on the most relevant data for a given task.
Equivio's Solution: Reducing Complexity and Speeding Time to Results
Equivio helps intelligence teams to analyze a large quantity of information and focus on what is relevant, rather than wasting time and money reviewing documents of little or no importance to the mission at hand. By enabling legal teams to focus on the most relevant information first, Equivio's solution speeds time to results, while reducing the risk of missing a critical piece of data.
By clustering groups of near-duplicates and email threads, Equivio helps intelligence organizations streamline the data review effort. The Equivio groupings allow the suppression of redundant data, exposing the unique data. This radically reduces data complexity, allowing the analyst to rapidly home in on the most relevant, crucial information. The resultant review process takes less time, costs less, and there is less risk of analytical error and oversight.
Equivio is also used to support text mining. By identifying which documents and emails contain unique information, Equivio enables the reduction of the input set. This helps ensure completion of text mining processing in the time window, while also eliminating skewed results which can derive from redundancies in the source data.
The Benefits
Equivio technology helps the intelligence organization by allowing you to focus on what's important -- that is, on documents that contain unique information, and on the unique information within each document. Benefits include:
- Eliminating noise. In text mining scenarios, Equivio's ability to identify near-duplicates is used to eliminate data redundancies in the input set. This ensures the completion of processing in the given time window, while also ensuring more accurate analysis and conclusions.
- Reduced time and costs. Equivio's technology consistently reduces review and handling costs by 30 to 50%.
- Enhanced findability of data and reduced risk. By isolating and prioritizing the most relevant documents from huge document sets as well as allowing the virtual suppression of redundant data, Equivio helps analysts cut directly to the information they need. The focus on unique data enhances data findability, and reduces the risk of errors due to oversights of mission-critical data.
- Reduced complexity. Equivio's ability to group near-duplicates introduces a dimension of structure into an unstructured document repository. This helps the intelligence organization cope with data sets that otherwise may be too obscure or complex to yield analytical value. The Equivio groupings also help the gatekeeper decide which documents to distribute and to whom, while ensuring that similar documents are assigned to the same analyst. This helps the analyst develop a coherent picture of these documents.
- Consistent treatment. The Equivio groupings ensure consistent coding and de-classification treatment of very similar documents.
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