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Attensity Law Enforcement Analyst Desktop Solution (LEADS) to Help Federal, State, and Local Agencies Fight Crime

PALO ALTO, Calif., - Attensity(TM), the leader in text analytics software for business intelligence, today announced the Attensity Law Enforcement Analyst Desktop Solution (LEADS) for local, state and federal law enforcement agencies. Attensity LEADS enables agents to access, analyze and organize data from freeform text -- unstructured information stored in police reports, FBI reports, interaction logs, legal or case documents, and public information -- toentify, investigate  and im pede criminal activity. Attensity LEADS is a secure, browser-based application that offers law enforcement agencies a seamless combination of criminal analytic tools at the fingertips of analysts. Attensity's award-winning Exhaustive Extraction(TM) technology enables the automatic extraction of facts from unstructured data in the form of "doubles" and "triples." The solution includes technology from Chiliad to enable distributed search, navigation, alerts, and contextual and geospatial analysis. It also includes link analysis and visualization features from ChoicePoint's i2 Analyst Notebook. Installation solutions are available from various government systems integrators. Together, these capabilities provide unprecedented ability to rapidly and accurately search, analyze and chart the vast amounts of unstructured data that surround investigations. "Attensity LEADS offers law enforcement agencies easy-to-use and h ighly effective capabilities to organize and analyze large amounts of unstructured information rapidly and efficiently," Craig Norris, Attensity's CEO, said. "We're pleased to help analysts search for clues more securely, chart relationships more accurately and close cases more quickly." Through the forensic web application, analysts can request daily reports and link analysis charts based on previously defined case parameters or emerging issues. They can investigate relationships between terms, issues, criminals and suspects visually, semantically or by event. Moreover, they can receive automatic alerts or request action triggers based on live data captured from public data found on the Internet and case documents. The ability of Attensity LEADS to extract from text "doubles" (key facts made up of things and behaviors) and "triples" (the critical actors, actions and objects that comprise sentences written in freeform text) wa s a ke y benefit for the application's first customer. Virginia's Chesterfield County Police Department (CCPD) purchased Attensity LEADS to help law enforcement personnel follow leads, make arrests and close cases. The CCPD will use the application to mine critical case data previously hidden from mountains of unstructured data. "Law enforcement agencies and businesses everywhere are in need of new tools and solutions to plow through the blizzard of documents investigators compile day after day, year after year," said Richard De Lotto, a principal research analyst with Gartner. "Systems such as Attensity's supply a necessary layer of management controls to a situation where information overload can have unfortunate consequences." Several more state and federal law enforcement agencies are reviewing Attensity LEADS for their operations as well. In addition to their traditional forensic investigations, law enforcement organ izations perform intelligence analysis and interdiction that require specialized analytics tools. However, departments don't want software that requires inordinate amounts of time to install or advanced degrees to operate. "The challenging needs of the law enforcement community require the most sophisticated synthesis of secure search, text analytics, link visualization and alerting tools available," said Paul McOwen, president of Chiliad. "Their huge data sets of structured and unstructured information are widely distributed across many locations and computer systems. We're proud to partner with Attensity on this important new product." Chiliad's software processes more than one million searches a month for the FBI. Investigators can analyze the concepts and context of every word and number in 659 million documents and records -- stored across scores of different data sources -- all in an average of six to eight sec onds p er query. Attensity integrated this highly secure technology to work across organizations, platforms and data types. Attensity's government sales representatives and partners Teradata, Business Objects and IBM can discuss comprehensive analytic solutions that integrate Attensity's technology into data warehousing, ETL and business intelligence systems. About Chiliad Chiliad's highly focusing cross-organizational search, analysis, navigation, and alerting software allowsusers to receive the most accurate globally-ranked results across very large-scale widely distributed datasets and real-time data streams, with instant alerts. Using grid-like parallel processing techniques, userscan 'connect the dots' across multiple enterprises in a matter of seconds. The FBI is Chiliad's largestcustomer with a worldwide enterprise license and over 14,000 authorized users. Chiliad's software wasrecently selected for the first project funded by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence for a landmark information sharing initiative to connect the dots across multiple US intelligence agencies with distributed cooperative federated analysis. Chiliad was incorporated in 1999 with development headquarters in Amherst, Massachusetts and field offices in Washington, DC. Information about Chiliad can be found at http://www.chiliad.com. About Attensity(TM) Attensity's text analytics software rapidly and accurately transforms unstructured data into valuable, actionable information. Global enterprises and government agencies automatically extract all the facts from freeform text, integrate these facts with structured data and leverage the fused data set to make decisions using Attensity's text analytics suite. The company's patented Exhaustive ExtractionT technology enables investigators, analysts, managers and executives to speed detection and  response to critical events and issues related to intelligence analysis, insurance claims analytics, service and warranty analysis, customer care, anti-money laundering and fraud detection. Attensity teams with Business Objects, IBM and Teradata to offer comprehensive solutions integrated with data warehousing and business intelligence systems. For four consecutive years, Attensity has been named one of KMWorld's "Companies That Matter." The company is headquartered in Palo Alto, Calif. with a technology center in Salt Lake City, Utah. More information is at www.attensity.com Contacts: Michelle de Haaff Attensity Corporation Phone: (650) 433-1718Email: mdehaaff@attensity.com Kawika Holbrook Sterling Communications, Inc.Phone: (408) 395-5500Email: kawika@sterlingpr.com