What are the benefits of the Synthesys™ data analytics platform?

• For the decision maker: it is the ability to quickly summarize and visualize information in order to drive action and leverage all of the information possible.
• For the enterprise or agency: it is the fusion of disparate sources of knowledge.
• For the software developer: it is having a Software Development Kit, which allows you to harness the robust ability to automate, correlate, abstract, and extract knowledge from unstructured data.
• For the analyst and end user: it is the ability to quickly discover, retrieve, and visualize interesting connections across all of their data.

Most current solutions:

• Don’t Automate: Keyword searches are very limited in their usefulness. First, you must know exactly what you are looking for – your results are confined to the keyword with which you started. Second, most results only tell you what you need to read next.  A keyword search  for “unstructured data” delivered an estimated 1,310,000 documents from which to choose and read.
• Don’t Learn: Most solutions don’t learn from the data. Rather, they try to fit it in a category or simply index it. They don’t actually understand what is in the data.
• Don’t Scale: Not well, anyway. They don’t offer real-time scalable performance. It makes a big difference to them if you want to read 1,000 documents or 1,000,000. It makes no difference to us.
• Don’t Measure: How do you know how accurate and precise your results are? Most solutions don’t measure their accuracy. Those that do, don’t usually make it available to see.

Synthesys “reads” every document, understands every word, and rapidly builds a model from the data itself. It automatically detects and visually displays complex relationships, allowing analysts to discover and share information that would have otherwise been missed.

Synthesys empowers the analyst to:

Filter data to reduce overload:
Most search solutions operate at the document level in an attempt to filter out irrelevant information. However, this type of searching still returns too many documents for the analyst to review.  Synthesys analyzes documents at the entity level, not only classifying all entities contained within the data, but correlating information across all documents.  The user can quickly isolate the relevant information and spend time reviewing only the most important sections of the critical documents or messages.

Find non-obvious, inferred connections based on limited search parameters:
Most solutions expect the user to know exactly what they are looking for. Synthesys technology intelligently augments the original search, providing additional relevant and closely related information. For example, searching for information on “stinger missiles” would also return instances where they are referred to as a “blowpipe”, or “manpad”, or a foreign variant of the stinger.

Analyze information in real-time:
Analysts need the most current information, and they cannot afford to wait for time-intensive manual vetting, slow batch-processing or reindexing.  Synthesys is able to analyze streams of data as they enter the system.

Visualize and Summarize critical relationships to facilitate collaboration amongst analysts:
Synthesys enables the analyst to graphically display the critical relationships in a large set of documents or message. At any stage in the analysis, the user can generate and share reports with team members or managers. Straightforward visual navigation and summarization tools multiply the value of Synthesys across a team of analysts.

Single point solution that can scale to handle very large amounts of data:
With Synthesys, computing power can be expanded by adding commodity hardware with minimal configuration changes. No competitor can provide the same level of analytical power and scale in this manner