Saffron Technology Releases SaffronAnalyst 5.3, a New Generation of Natural Analytics Software

North Carolina-based Saffron Technology today announced the release of SaffronAnalyst™ Version 5.3, a new generation of its natural analytics platform. The release includes many analyst-requested features such as enhanced geo-rectification, social commenting, implicit expertise, and integration with Microsoft Office™. The company also announced the availability of a 30-minute online video to explain all the new features in SaffronAnalyst 5.3.

SaffronAnalyst 5.3 provides a suite of new features requested by customers

Research Triangle Park, North Carolina (Issues Wire / PRWEB) November 14, 2008 -- Saffron Technology, Inc., the leader in natural analytic solutions, today announced SaffronAnalyst 5.3, a major enhancement to its flagship product. The release includes several analyst-requested features such as geo-rectification with associative event analysis, global collaboration with social commenting, implicit expertise development in SaffronMemoryBase, and integration with Microsoft Office Word™, PowerPoint™, and Excel™ 2007.

SaffronAnalyst 5.3 is designed for professionals who conduct investigative analysis across massive data sets, driving more time out of the analytic process and providing evidence-based decision support in one-tenth the time of other search and discovery products.

SaffronAnalyst 5.3, in conjunction with SaffronMemoryBase, dramatically reduces the time to analyze and discover entities and their associations across massive, multiple data sources. Users can quickly explore all relevant associations and produce new analysis and decision scenarios. Users can find the most relevant intelligence in context to the question -- rather than simply answering the question, SaffronAnalyst 5.3 helps the user to ask it.

To help find the unknown-unknowns, SaffronAnalyst 5.3 enables analysts to "fly" through entity networks and segments of evidence, faceting down or pivoting around, to reach the answer to questions they didn't know to ask, practically impossible with SQL.

Included in the new release are several features critical to improving the productivity of intelligence analysts, enabling them to get quickly from millions of documents to actionable intelligence:

• Enhanced Geo-Rectification. Unlike competitive products which provide two dimensional (lat, long) visual representation of an event(s) on a map, SaffronAnalyst 5.3 presents information about all related entities and supporting snippets associated with the location, in context of the analyst's query. With Saffron, the analyst sees not only the events tied to the location, but how the events are associated with each other, in context of the query, with snippet level supporting evidence.

• Social Commenting. In addition to making notes on their own collection, users can comment on other analysts' work product and public collections. While most other products limit social networking and commenting to workgroups, SaffronAnalyst 5.3 enables commenting throughout the network, as defined by the local users' classification policy. User commenting incorporates experience and knowledge into, and become part of, the analysis.

• Implicit Expertise. SaffronAnalyst 5.3 learns the analyst's interests, taking note of the way the analyst interacts with SaffronMemoryBase, so the application can alert the analyst to new relevant matters. In the case of intelligence data, the sum of the parts is not greater than the whole, so unlike products with a shallow representation of user modeling, SaffronAnalyst 5.3 learns the apparent interests of the analyst, identifies relevant data the analyst may not know exists, alerts the analyst to its existence, and recalls it as required.

• Microsoft Office Integration. Since many analytic reports are produced in MS Word, and operational briefings are presented in MS PowerPoint, SaffronAnalyst 5.3 exports the collected evidence, and comments to both, allowing the analyst to add their arguments for a complete product. Export to CSV format allows the analyst to open the results into a spreadsheet and still another way to conduct analyst and report from a desktop.

• meet the needs of the intelligence community in wartime,
• improve collaboration between geographically distributed analysts,
• distinguish between good intelligence and bad,
• realize the benefits of database assimilation vs. database accretion,
• address the changes in intelligence information with alerts to tell you what's new AND interesting.

"SaffronAnalyst 5.3 provides a suite of new features requested by customers," says Dr. Manuel Aparicio, company Chairman and CEO. "They know it's not a just a big intelligence world out there, it's a world made up of billions of small worlds with six degrees of separation. Like your brain, SaffronAnalyst 5.3 learns all about them and makes connections the analyst can't see. It helps them find the answers in the unknown unknowns, even when they don't know the question. For our customers, it's all about the mission -- taking timely, precise action to solve a problem -- any problem. SaffronAnalyst 5.3 helps our customers get there sooner than any other product on the market."

SaffronAnalyst 5.3 is built upon SaffronEnterprise™, the command and control center of Saffron's Associative Memory Base platform.

About Saffron Technology
   
Saffron Technology's Natural Analytic solutions for government and business meet and exceed the needs of organizations challenged by massive volumes of structured and unstructured data stored in multiple sources that require unified analysis in order to achieve their objective. Saffron dramatically reduces the time to get to "actionable intelligence" with their SaffronAnalyst™ and SaffronMemoryBase™. Government agencies in national security and businesses in highly competitive and risk-intensive markets rely on Saffron to help them ask the right questions and find the unknown unknowns in their data.

Company headquarters are in Research Triangle, North Carolina. For more information, please visit www.SaffronTech.com or call 1-866-472-3376.

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