Prominent U.S. Government Intel Tool Now Available For Unlocking Secrets of Complex, Disjointed Information

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-(Business Wire)-February 17, 2009 - In the world of information, there aren’t many organizations with greater needs for clarity and insight than U.S. government intelligence agencies. At the cutting edge of research, these groups specialize in bringing meaning to millions of pieces of seemingly disconnected data. Accordingly, their tools are second to none.

After more than ten years of R&D, one of those tools is now available to the public. Future Point Systems, Inc., the market leader in Visual Information Systems (VIS), has licensed the exclusive rights to market Starlight VIS™ to corporations, law enforcement agencies, military organizations and others who have a need to extract new value from very large quantities of heterogeneous data.

“Starlight is unlike anything analysts—commercial or non-commercial—have ever seen. It allows you to apply your natural visual pattern recognition and spatial reasoning skills to extremely large data sources,” said Paul D’Antilio, chief executive officer of Future Point Systems, Inc. “It provides understanding at a speed that is orders of magnitude faster than with conventional tools. What’s more, Starlight can be used on a standard PC equipped with an ordinary Web browser.”

The Starlight system, comprised of the Starlight Server, Starlight Client, and Starlight XML Engineering Environment (XEE), enables users to comprehend information and solve problems by generating pictures of relationships among items in large data repositories. Containing multiple integrated visualization tools, the system can integrate text documents, database records, Web pages, geospatial data, video and photos, and other types of information to create awareness in situations of high complexity or uncertainty.

“Future Point Systems and the Starlight software platform are pioneers in the field of visual analytics,” said Brian Kritzstein of Battelle, a Starlight reseller and services partner that also provides training, integration, and analysis support services for FPS. “Starlight enables dramatic increases in both productivity and efficiency for users faced with massive amounts of information. Starlight enables both government clients and commercial clients to work with their data in entirely new ways, accelerating understanding and improving timely decision-making.”

Broad Uses

Already used by Fortune 500 companies as well as government agencies, Starlight VIS is highly adept at:

All Source Intelligence Analysis—Starlight enables analysts to work with a virtually unlimited variety of data types to produce more comprehensive reports in less time than through previously existing techniques. Starlight's visual analysis tools enable analysts to quickly organize, summarize, and relate this disparate information in powerful ways, all from within a single integrated analysis environment.
Legal Analytics—Starlight can process enormous amounts of dissimilar data to quickly locate key items or piece together causal chains, as well as execute eDiscovery, computer forensics, email analytics, compliance, or IP management.
Market and Competitive Intelligence—With the ability to seamlessly integrate blogs, chat forums, social networks and traditional Web sites, Starlight can unlock significant value from many forms of consumer expression. Starlight creates an entirely new channel through which organizations can gain situational awareness and interact with key stakeholders.
Cyber-Security and Computer Forensics—Analysts can use Starlight for a vast range of security tasks, from examining a computer system after a break-in or seizure, to sifting through NIDS (Network Intrusion Detection System) data to uncover suspicious connections between machines.

Among the many features at Starlight’s disposal are free-text topic clustering, network analysis, hierarchical organizations, geospatial relationships, temporal relationships category memberships and multi-dimensional correlations of structured data. The software platform also features project collaboration, advanced workflow management and native XML support, as well as an integrated XML data warehouse.

To ensure that data is accessible and in a form that is suitable for analysis, Starlight VIS includes the XML Engineering Environment (XEE) for accessing and enriching data from numerous sources. The modular design of XEE allows it to be easily integrated with legacy databases and SOA (Service Oriented Architecture) implementations. It also has a powerful graphical programming interface simple enough for even non-programmers to use.

Reseller Network

Future Point Systems and Starlight VIS are supported by a network of highly qualified resellers including Battelle, Cormine Intelligent Data, CyTech Services, Microlink LLC, Respond BV, and Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC). For more information about Starlight, log on to www.futurepointsystems.com.

About Future Point Systems:

Headquartered in Mountain View, California and with offices in Washington, Oregon and Washington DC, Future Point Systems Inc. was founded in 2006 in partnership with Pacific Northwest National Lab (PNNL). As a private commercial enterprise, Future Point Systems has been granted exclusive rights to develop and market Starlight VIS (Visual Information System), capitalizing on millions of dollars of government-funded R&D. Starlight enables users to visually manage, understand, and derive new knowledge from massive quantities of heterogeneous and complexly related information. The system is well suited for applications ranging from military and law enforcement to corporate, academic and legal use. Future Point Systems is supported by a network of value added resellers. Visit www.futurepointsystems.com.

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