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Dan Shaver – i2 Product Support13 September 2014
Analyst’s Notebook 8.9.7 New Product Features
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Agenda - What’s New in 8.9.7?
Analyst’s Notebooko Activity Viewo Multilanguage installero Selection Stateo Packed Layouto Disassociate link color from link type
Analyst’s Notebook Premiumo Extended Info tipso Chart Item Uploadero Visual Queryo Mergeo Data Acquisition
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Product Overview
Analyst’s Notebook is a standalone desktop product for a single user
Allows quick collation and visualization of unstructured or structured data
Incorporates powerful analysis tools to identify patterns within the chart
Used by over 2500 organizations worldwide
Knowledge can be shared through Analyst’s Notebook charts (.anb)
Chart centric working
Available in 17 languages
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Activity View
Visualize Temporal Data based on chart items attributes Allows the user to identify overlaps in a persons activities Plots varying types of data
Point - i.e. when a financial transaction occurred Duration - i.e. a telephone call – where start & end dates are
present Fuzzy - i.e. when something happened on a date but time is
not known
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Multilanguage Installer
A single installer providing all 17 languages User chooses at runtime which language to use Switchable at anytime All aspects of the program are localized
UI Help Templates Example Charts Import Specifications Conditional Formatting Specifications
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Selection State
Give clearer context of what is selected on the chart surface
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Selection State
Give clearer context of what is selected on the chart surface
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Selection State
Give clearer context of what is selected on the chart surface
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Packed Layout
Make better use of the screen real-estate Takes each “cluster” and lays them out on the screen in a way
that allows analyst’s to see all the data held within the chart
Without Packed Layout
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Packed Layout
Make better use of the screen real-estate Takes each “cluster” and lays them out on the screen in a way
that allows analyst’s to see all the data held within the chart
Without Packed LayoutWith Packed Layout
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Disassociate link color from link type
Allows the user to use color to highlight links of interest without changing the type of that link
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Product Overview
Provides a rich, data-centric analytical environment with investigative analysis in mind.
Designed for a single user
Combines Analyst’s Notebook analytical capabilities with a single user analytical repository for storing rich & vetted intelligence
Can be optionally upgraded to serve as the rich desktop client for IAP (in this case the local repository is substituted for a global repository with advanced collaborative functionality)
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Extended Infotips•Infotips first introduced into Analyst’s Notebook at 8.9.5•Presents the user with a summary about the data behind an entity such as attributes, cards, data records & description•Extended to provide commonly used Premium commands•Commands differ based on whether item exists within the repository
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Chart Item Uploader
Allows the ingestion of entities, links and properties that exist within Analyst’s Notebook charts
Wizard driven interface allowing the user to configure how items are stored in the repository, maximizing the value of each Analyst’s Notebook chart.
Uses Semantic and Name matching to automatically align Chart and Repository data models
User can customize to override any automatic alignment
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Visual Query•Allows a user to create a visual shape of the question. •Single entities through to complex networks containing indirect relationships can be defined without the need to learn complex query languages. •Any number of properties can be assigned to entity and link types to hone the results.•Query definitions can be saved for reuse and shared across the operation community to reduce duplicating effort. •Analysis Repository permissions can be placed on the definitions, or similar queries can be grouped to assist with their management.
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Merge•Chart merging allow a user to test hypotheses for whether two or more entities are actually referencing the same item. If this hypothesis is proved the user can apply the same merge on the repository by choosing one item as the master record and merging the other items data into it – this could include properties, cards, data records and links.
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Data Acquisiton (Only when used in collaboration with IAP)
Analyst’s Notebook Premium has capabilities built-in for interacting with 3 rd party data source when used within IAP. For more information on this functionality see the white paper. ( IBM i2 Intelligence Analysis Platform
Data Acquisition Overview) http://public.dhe.ibm.com/common/ssi/ecm/en/zzw03285usen/ZZW03285USEN.PDF
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