i2 and ESRI Collaborate to Provide Unparalleled Solution for Analytics and Geospatial Intelligence

PHOENIX, May 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A new solution announced today at the Department of Defense Intelligence Information Systems (DoDIIS) Worldwide Conference will give defense and intelligence personnel unprecedented analysis capabilities for human terrain mapping, better arming them for current and future counterinsurgency (COIN) and anti-terrorism operations.

i2, the leading provider of intelligence and investigation software; and ESRI, the leading provider of geospatial analysis capabilities; are collaborating to release several modules in the coming months, including the ESRI Foundation Module for i2's Analyst's Notebook: a powerful and flexible geospatial analysis tool with a host of military, intelligence, law enforcement and civilian applications.

The ESRI Foundation module for Analyst's Notebook embeds some of ArcGIS's powerful geospatial analysis capabilities, into Analyst's Notebook, i2's best-of-breed analytic solution.  This will create a unique, dynamic and flexible platform for sharing and exploiting the full range of geospatial and intelligence data.  It will allow users to efficiently and effectively analyze and visualize in time and space their mission critical intelligence within the Analyst's Notebook platform.

"I think this is going to be of particular interest for our defense and intelligence customers," said i2 Vice President of Product Marketing Guillaume Tissot.  "Human terrain mapping is an increasingly essential tool for ongoing counterinsurgency efforts in defense theaters of operation. Understanding and mapping the nuanced political, social, ethnic and religious networks in an area of operation is critical to COIN, and our collaboration with ESRI gives commanders and human terrain teams the best solution of its kind for accomplishing their mission."

"I believe this will address a growing need for our defense, law enforcement and national security customers," said Lew Nelson, Industry Solutions Manager at ESRI. "Our joint customers can now engage in multi-dimensional data fusion — examining the geographic, relational and temporal elements of any problem concurrently.  ESRI's geospatial analysis capabilities integrated into i2's intelligence platform provides a solid foundation for an analytics-driven approach.  From human terrain mapping in support of COIN efforts to intelligence-led policing and counter terrorism, the end result will help an organization more effectively meet their mission."

Human terrain mapping allows analysts and commanders to visually understand the social dimension of their battlespace, including religious boundaries, economic structures, community leadership and other sociological information.

The ESRI Foundation for Analyst's Notebook will allow many analysts, commanders and field operators to collaborate in mapping this data in a quickly understood human terrain picture, enabling more proactive engagement with local communities and more efficient responses to events.

This module is the first in a series of tightly packaged capabilities that i2 and ESRI defense and intelligence users have been requesting.

The ESRI Foundation for Analyst's Notebook will be generally available to users at around the same time as the ESRI International User Conference in San Diego, 12-19 July. The two companies are currently working to add other modules to ensure that intelligence, defense, law enforcement and civilian users have the most powerful and flexible intelligence tools possible.

Both i2 and ESRI share many defense, law enforcement and intelligence customers worldwide. i2 is demonstrating Analyst's Notebook and ESRI capabilities at DoDIIS booth #1302.  ESRI is at booth #916.

About i2

i2 is the leading provider of intelligence and investigation solutions for defense, national security, law enforcement and commercial security. Over 4,500 organizations in 149 countries rely on the i2 Intelligence-Led Operations Platform to proactively deter, prevent, predict and disrupt the world's most sophisticated criminal and terrorist threats. i2 started the intelligence revolution in 1990 and continues to lead the industry in innovation with products like Analyst's Notebook® and COPLINK®. These solutions enable public safety officers, analysts, managers, detectives and investigators to uncover hidden connections faster, deliver timely and actionable results and communicate complex situations more clearly than ever. For more information, please visit www.i2group.com.

About ESRI

Since 1969, ESRI has been giving customers around the world the power to think and plan geographically. The market leader in GIS, ESRI software is used in more than 300,000 organizations worldwide including each of the 200 largest cities in the United States, most national governments, more than two-thirds of Fortune 500 companies, and more than 7,000 colleges and universities. ESRI applications, running on more than one million desktops and thousands of Web and enterprise servers, provide the backbone for the world's mapping and spatial analysis. ESRI is the only vendor that provides complete technical solutions for desktop, mobile, server, and Internet platforms. Visit us at www.esri.com/news.

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