October 2005  Volume 4, Issue 4   


The Latest and Greatest

Over the past several months, VAI has been burning the midnight oil to get VisuaLinks 4.0 finalized for release. All of this hard work has produced the industry's most advanced system for accessing, combining, and analyzing data for money laundering, financial crimes, terrorism, and fraud-related events. This follows the recent release of our Digital Information Gateway (DIG) 3.0 system, which is changing the way companies and government organizations securely share information.

The collaborative analytics offered as part of VisuaLinks 4.0 represent the next-generation capabilities for processing and managing volumes of data derived from different sources. VisuaLinks 4.0 enables proactive analysis through easy-to-use interfaces to identify new patterns and trends. VisuaLinks offers affordable, enterprise-level analytics for organizations and agencies using industry standards to provide centralized administration for low-cost deployment to large number of users.

VAI stands out from the competition - which generates "proprietary" formats for saving results and then sells you software to search these files - by using open standards and exporting data using SQL database protocols to make the data available to analysts with the proper authorization. This approach produces the most scalable and acceptable method for sharing information. VAI is making great strides in advancing the state of analysis.

VisuaLinks 4.0, our latest-and-greatest, has been outfitted with a number of significant enhancements including a persistent cache that enables unlimited data processing. Proactive analysis features like Network Miner and Fuzzy Matcher are no longer memory bound; enabling the proactive identification of targets from large volumes of records without any type of preprocessing, limitations, or restrictions.

We listen carefully to our user community and have incorporated a new interface design with larger buttons and a more intuitive layout. In fact, starting with 4.0, there are three (3) different analytical configurations to choose from including Standard, Professional, and Enterprise.

  • VisuaLinks Standard is designed for organizations that wish to provide for simple search and drill-down capabilities without the need for high-end system resources.
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Visual Analytics continues to expand its capabilities throughout the analytical world. VisuaLinks 4.0, our best yet, has been shipping for the past several weeks and is offering the marketplace a more powerful, capable, and cost-effective system. With the latest DIG 3.0 quickly becoming the standard information sharing solution, the combination of technologies is unbeatable.

We encourage our readers to learn more about how VAI software can be used to help provide better results. Our newest product, DIG Symphony can help cleanse, standardize, and format a number of different data sources to provide superior analysis. There is a lot more to come – including portals, web versions, and other third party technology integrations. Keep visiting VAI’s web site to learn more.

VisuaLinks 4.0 is now available for download through the VAI support site. The client-side files have been significantly reduced in size to ensure better performance and throughput. Overall, the structure of the VisuaLinks distribution has been optimized to accelerate the speed, accuracy, and quality of your analyses.

We have also posted a preview of an HTML version of the VisuaLinks Client at http://vl.visualanalytics.com. Take a look at this truly lightweight version of the VisuaLinks Client using the VisuaLinks 4.0 server-side API calls to process and display the results.

Attention Partners and Resellers! There are new and revised training materials for VisuaLinks 4.0 available for download. These documents have been enhanced to provide step-by-step guidance, more examples, and extended discussions, including Q&A's, to help clients better understand analysis.
 VisuaLinks News  Did You Know?
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DIG 3.0 was successfully launched in May and is in operation at a number of domestic and international sites. There have already been enhancements made to this release – the addition of ChoicePoint® and Qsent® data source connections, the ability to create multi-field keys in database indexes, and the integration of the DIG Script Editor into the Database Source management process in the DIG Enterprise Manager. Checkout the Feature of the Month for an update on creating your database Views using the DIG Script Editor.

Be sure to take a look at our HTML version of the DIG Client at http://dig.visualanalytics.com/web/. This is a pure web (thin) Client and uses the DIG API to request and return user data.

DIG development continues in full swing. We are currently in the middle of development of a DIG Web Portal. Visit the DIG News page for details on this exciting addition to the DIG product suite.
 DIG News  Did You Know?
 Feature of the Month     
VAI has been named among the prestigious Deloitte & Touche LLP Maryland Technology Fast 50 for 2005. VAI has successfully deployed our cutting-edge software, VisuaLinks and DIG, around the globe to thousands of users supporting both government and commercial applications. See what else VAI has been up to in this section of the newsletter.
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