BLUE FUSION VS. i2 ANALYST’S NOTEBOOK
The Real-Time, No-Code Alternative Analysts Actually Want
Ditch the outdated. Discover the platform built for today’s intelligence, analysis, and collaboration.
Why Agencies Are Replacing i2ANB
Analysts, investigators, and federal teams are facing growing pressure to move faster, connect more dots, and share intelligence securely across jurisdictions.
But legacy tools like i2 Analyst’s Notebook fall short:
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No real-time data access
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No inter-agency collaboration
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No federated search (search all data sources simultaneously)
Blue Fusion changes everything.
Feature Comparison Table
What Sets Blue Fusion Apart?
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Real-Time, No-Code Search
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See Our Powerful, Patented Data Access on Demand (DAOD) Technology in Action
Data Access on Demand technology, like the patented Blue Fusion product, provide rapid connectivity to disparate databases at the same classification level with easy to build, re-useable data connectors that are agnostic to the origin data form, location and structure. DAOD data connectors leave the organization’s data at rest and allow access to that data in real-time, reducing the latency that is normally associated with today’s “near real time” data and analytic solutions, like i2 Analysts Notebook.
Besides rapid connectivity to disparate data, the single largest advantage to DAOD technology is its ability to normalize disparate data sets to support federated searches, federated alerts and real time monitoring of data sets. DAOD technology provides a standardized approach to disparate data for the first time and is completely agnostic, allowing not only connectivity with any database to include existing ETL or ELT databases or data lakes, but minimizing integration and configuration costs saving time and resources.
DAOD Advantages:
The unique advantages of Data Access on Demand for first responder and national security analysts are:
1. Automated Data Normalization:
Blue Fusions patented approach to data management automates the transformation of data queries for visualization or other application uses. The technology allows for the simple, even client-side or AI construction of data connectors that map both the connected data source and the destination database or application. Once queries are created in the Blue Fusion User Interface (UI) or created as a data demand for storage, the data is identified, retrieved and transformed automatically into the desire data form saving analysts 80% of their time and organizations the costs associated with ETL for AI.
2. Real-Time Data Access and Ingestion:
Blue Fusion’s technology allows for the Analyst to query databases at rest, meaning that all the data in those databases are available immediately instead of having to wait for large scale data migrations. This approach provides significant advantages over existing Extract, Transform, and Load approaches where the Analyst must wait for data to be uploaded to be queried. Blue Fusion leverages the Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) methodology to increase data querying and ingestion 10x over ETL processes with less than 20% of the cost of installing systems that use ETL.
3. Automated Federated Searching Capability:
DAOD technology allows analysts to connect to multiple data sources via API or Data Access on Demand (DAOD) connectors to conduct “one-click” federated searching of those databases with easily constructed visual queries, saving them up to 80% of the time spent on data collection.
4. Single Pane of Glass Visualization of Disparate Data:
DAOD Technologies provides the Analyst the ability to query, import, normalize, and ingest data automatically into a data analytics visualization tool like i2 Analyst’s Notebook bypassing the transform and load processes of ETL, providing them the powerful ability to visualize disparate data that has never been collected together, and significantly increasing the Analyst’s effectiveness.
5. 3rd Party Data Alerts of Disparate Data:
With its ability to set iterative searches of any database, some DAOD technologies, like Blue Fusion are unique in that it can continuously search connected disparate databases for information related to an analyst’s target and alert them within their visualization platform, such as i2 Analyst’s Notebook, when the data is available. This automated approach to disparate data querying provides significant savings in time and resources as analysts no longer have to conduct multiple manual queries to identify datapoints.
6. Rapid Technology/Data Output Adoption:
With the technology space continuously evolving or creating new and better data collection technologies, Government Agencies are rapidly changing collection technologies and creating data that must be integrated into a visualization tool like i2, if it’s to be useful. While most intelligence systems are not flexible when it comes to ingesting or connecting to new technology, Blue Fusion’s “plug and play” approach to data can connect analysts to any existing database/source while allowing agencies to leverage existing or future investments in technology. DAOD or API connectors are easily constructed using a standardized “Plug and Play” approach with existing schema and there are connectors are already built for a multitude of commercial and USG OSINT, Dark Web, Geospatial, natural language processors, and machine learning tools and technologies.
