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Premium
More effectively manage a wide range of intelligence
with powerful search and discovery capabilities

IBM® i2® Analyst’s Notebook® Premium builds on the powerful visual

Highlights analysis capabilities of IBM i2 Analyst’s Notebook by providing a rich,
• Speed up the intelligence analysis
data centric, single user analysis environment that includes the key
cycle with a rich, data-centric analysis elements required to collate, manage, explore and analyze intelligence
environment data. i2 Analyst’s Notebook Premium is designed to help analysts and
• Minimize the overhead of data management
investigators discover key information hidden in the mass of disparate
with optimized local analysis repository data that is commonplace in the fight against modern day, sophisticated
criminal and terrorist organizations.
• Improve the discovery potential of key
information across all available data
At the core of i2 Analyst’s Notebook Premium is a local analysis repository
• Generate multi-dimensional views of that is optimized for data management, information discovery and analysis.
data faster with a single, comprehensive
analysis environment
This repository enables users to more effectively manage a wide range of
intelligence by collating it into a single source. For instance, the repository
• Support detailed analysis of data through features a data management interface that is designed to enable rapid
to intelligence product generation
data entry and management and provides powerful search and discovery
• Obtain near immediate productivity capabilities. These capabilities help users to quickly explore their collated
gains with built-in components for data and identify key information within the local analysis repository.
rapid deployment
Data of interest can also be exported in a commonly supported structured
data format so that key information can be quickly disseminated across
organizations for inclusion in other tools or processes that may rely on it.

By incorporating data storage and search and discovery features with visual
analysis capabilities, i2 Analyst’s Notebook Premium offers an integrated
environment that empowers users to quickly build multi-dimensional
views and hypotheses on data of interest. This ultimately helps to drive
more timely and accurate operational decision making.
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Overview These capabilities help organizations and their users achieve

i2 Analyst’s Notebook Premium is a powerful data-centric the following objectives:
visual analysis environment, backed by an optimized local
analysis repository. It offers users a comprehensive range of • Build a single, cohesive intelligence picture more quickly
capabilities to identify actionable intelligence within by combining all available information in a one analysis
disparate data sets. repository.
• Strengthen insight and understanding of complex criminal,
terrorist and fraudulent activities and networks.
• Increase the depth of end intelligence products for more
effective resource utilization.
• Clearly communicate analysis findings to drive informed and
effective operational decision making.

Reduce data management and analysis overheads by

The local analysis repository enables users to store structured,
entity, link and property information as well as unstructured
data, including i2 Analyst’s Notebook charts. This storage system
is optimized for larger volumes of data and analysis when
compared to i2 Analyst’s Notebook charts.

Enhanced data management features help ensure that the

provenance of data is retained. User notes about an item’s
evolution over time also helps ensure that working knowledge
is captured so it can be used to assist operations in more timely
and accurate decision making.

Features of the local analysis repository:

• Store structured and unstructured data in an analysis-ready

format within a single location.
• Meet specific organization operational needs with a flexible
data model and visualization environment.
• Ease data input processes with intuitive and configurable
manual data entry forms and structured data visual
importer mechanisms.
• Capture all source, item change history and user insights to
ensure all working knowledge is retained.

Figure 1: Analyst’s Notebook Premium provides users with the ability to ingest,
manage, visualize, analyze data and share key findings.

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Increase potential information discovery across all Take advantage of the features of a visual analysis environment:
available locally stored data
With a repository optimized for analysis as the foundation for • Reduce the time to identify the key elements of ‘who, what,
i2 Analyst’s Notebook Premium, a powerful range of search when, why and where’ with multiple analysis views on a
and discovery techniques can be employed across structured single store of data.
and unstructured data simultaneously. These tools help to • Support the dynamic nature of analysis tasks and reduce the
accelerate information discovery and uncover intelligence time needed to create different hypotheses.
that may have been missed. In addition, as the analysis • Quickly highlight key individuals and relationships and their
repository can store historic i2 Analyst’s Notebook charts, connections to key events with core link analysis capabilities.
key information from previous operations can be included in • Understand critical timeline of events or patterns within
potential results so that virtually no information source is criminal activities with powerful temporal analysis tools.
left untapped. • Gain better insight and understanding of the structure,
hierarchy and ‘modus-operandi’ of complex networks with
Data held in the analysis repository can then be located through integrated social network analysis tools.
the powerful search and discovery tools designed to enable users
to quickly drill down and identify key information of interest. Simple communication of complex data
While the discovery and development of intelligence is key,
it is equally important that analysts are able to effectively share
Achieve the following benefits with i2 Analyst’s critical findings in a clear and concise manner. The effective
Notebook Premium: dissemination of data is vital to aid operational decision
makers in making rapid, accurate and informed decisions.
• Accelerate information discovery by employing exact
i2 Analyst’s Notebook Premium provides users with the
and fuzzy searching techniques simultaneously across
structured and unstructured data. following benefits:

• Simplify the creation of complex questions on analysis • Communicate complex data with intuitive and easy-to-follow
repository data with human-led visual queries.
visual briefing charts.
• Unlock the value of information and intelligence in existing • Create detailed charts or visualizations to enhance other
charts with the ability to place individual chart items directly end intelligence products.
into the analysis repository. • Easily share key information across an organization for
inclusion in other tools or processes with export to a
commonly supported structured data format.
Create a multi-dimensional view of key knowledge • Produce updated versions of charts to easily share
and information
the right level of information to others with differing
The integration with the rich visual analysis environment
security clearances.
enables users to visualize the same information of interest in
• Easily share charts with non-i2 Analyst’s Notebook users
various operational charts. For instance, this same information
with the freely available IBM i2 Chart Reader.
can be visually represented for network, temporal, statistical
or geospatial analysis. This targeted and focused approach
simplifies the analysis phase of operations, thus helping to reduce
the time needed to create different hypotheses.

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settings, offering offering near immediate productivity gains.
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