MCLEAN, Va., Feb. 11 /PRNewswire/ -- i2, the leading provider of intelligence and investigation management software, today announced a set of customized enhancements to its signature software application, Analyst Notebook, as part of strategic partnership with the United States special operations community that will mean greater effectiveness and versatility for thousands of existing users.  

"Special Operators continue to upgrade to the most recent versions of i2 software," said Tom O'Neil, i2's senior vice president of Sales, "This update has given them enhanced capability to move the decision point to the left and arm the human sensor at their point of need while retaining the same outstanding Operations Security that attracted them to our product in the first place."

The desktop version of i2's software has been available with multiple license validation technologies for several years, including a hardware key version and a software key version. With this upgrade, the special operations community has decided to adopt the software key version because of its ability to significantly reduce vulnerability to single point of failure incidents.

"Our primary goal is to bring our customers new technologies that will enable them to accelerate their mission. We recognize what a significant customer we have in the special operations community and how the urgency of their needs — with critical missions ongoing overseas — don't conveniently tie into product release dates.  By expediting several crucial enhancements that will be standard on the new version of the software later this year, they can begin taking advantage of them immediately," said Guillaume Tissot, i2's VP Product Marketing.

Analyst's Notebook, part of the i2 Intelligence-Led Operations Platform, delivers the richest assisted analysis and visualization capabilities in the world to support analysts in quickly turning large sets of disparate information into high-quality and actionable intelligence to prevent crime and terrorism.  Its principle features include the following tools:

• Comprehensive range of visualization and analytical tools arm the human sensor at their point of need by quickly identifying connections, patterns and trends in complex data sets
• Flexible data acquisition and data model allows rapid entry of information while supporting dynamic analytical thought processes
• Simple communication of complex information with intelligent charts that accelerate the mission from reactive and responsive to proactive and predictive
• Highly extensible solution that scales from small operations up to large enterprise organizations with extremely low start-up costs
• Fast, seamless access to vital crime data through i2's proprietary COPLINK product line, right from within Analyst Notebook

About i2, Inc.

i2 Inc is the leading provider of intelligence and investigation solutions for defense, national security, law enforcement and commercial security. Over 4500 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.

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