PROBLEM

Intelligence agencies lack an online collaboration environment that can provide value to collectors, analysts, and consumers of intelligence reports. All these users need an effective way to critique and see the analytic provenance of intelligence reports - the reasoning and source material underpinning findings and conclusions. Blogs, wikis and discussion forums do not provide an adequate way to quickly drill into and comment on specific parts of the text of a report or source document or imagery and relate these comments to associated documents and data.

SOLUTION

The TagCite collaborative analysis software solution from Mind-Alliance Systems provides both intelligence producers and consumers with a simple, elegant and powerful way to improve the quality of analysis. TagCite is being piloted and evaluated by major national, state and local intelligence agencies, think tanks, and private sector companies.

FEATURES

• Online software-as-a-service architecture supports real time collaboration via a web browser with no need to install software.
• Unparalleled ease-of-use and simplicity makes the system attractive to users and usable with only 5-10 minutes of online training.
• Open source infrastructure can be extended readily with additional functionality and integrated with existing repositories of data and applications.
• Patent-pending commenting, visualization and information retrieval functionality facilitate analytic insights.
• Access controls help enforce rules-compliant interaction between users.

BENEFITS

• Enhances the quality of analytic collaboration across agencies by providing a framework to bring ideas together, facilitating fusion between collectors, analysts, and consumers.
• Provides a platform for the drafter of an assessment to bring together insights from various analytic offices.
• Leads the reader to other relevant information that might be missed and combines elements from finished intelligence, raw reporting, and integrating structured and unstructured text regardless of the source database.
• Captures knowledge and un-captured analytic insights to provide continuity of analysis amidst uneven analytic depth.
• Annotated dialog between analysts and consumers helps interpretation and debriefing.
• Serves as a teaching and quality tool to guide the development of junior analysts.
• Automates discovery of new information sharing opportunities and gaps in information capability.