ECONOMICS

Critical Insight Solutions Offers Energy, Health, Financial Services, and Telecommunications Customers Real-Time Synthesis and Actionable Business Intelligence from Deluge of Data

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has introduced Critical Insight Solutions, an end-to-end suite of big data optimization tools and expertise for large organizations looking to bring order and clarity from massive amounts of disparate data in real-time.

With almost a decade of experience managing petabytes of real-time data for the U.S. Government, SAIC can now offer their experience, solutions and expertise to Energy, Health, Financial Services, and Telecommunications organizations. The SAIC Critical Insight big data management and analytics solution set are designed to empower organizations to effectively and efficiently leverage the deluge of big data.

"SAIC's Critical Insight Solutions help energy clients better understand the value of their data - it can be used for both customer education and operational improvements such as developing and deploying alerts to increase efficiencies in the management of the grid.  In this case, data is power," said Jim Baxter, SAIC vice president for operations.

Critical Insight Solutions allows users to quickly test analytic hypotheses independent of data volume, speed and structure. This fast-discovery approach provides unprecedented agility in responding to dynamic environments. Clients can leverage the power of Critical Insight Solutions to help with challenges such as detecting electronic financial fraud, disease diagnosis, medical research, brand protection, geospatial tracking, and energy consumption optimization.

Critical Insight Solutions incorporates operationally proven open-source components for data storage and query, extending them with unique capabilities for real-time analytics and alerts, complex full data set modeling and summarization, and time-based model trending. The platform provides a cloud-based scalable ingest and analytics solution that easily accommodates petabytes of data. With its modular architecture, Critical Insight Solutions connects across internal and external data sets to a variety of analytic tools.

Critical Insight Solutions key features and benefits include:

    --  Dynamic ingest and real-time analytics at petabyte scale
    --  Mobile reporting and real-time alerting
    --  Multi-sourced data analytics for trusted decision making
    --  Public, private and hybrid cloud deployment options
    --  Easy application of complex model analytics
    --  Anomaly detection, prediction, and classification of data
    --  "Fast fail" hypothesis testing for discovery of informative insights
    --  A wide range of analytic outputs to measure online discourse
    --  Unstructured data can be collected, processed and analyzed in native
        language
    --  Applicable to both government and commercial markets


"The powerful combination of SAIC's Critical Insight Solutions technologies and expertise has delivered proven performance over the last decade in our work with government agencies. By combining our big data experts with our innovative technologies, SAIC is looking to help industries such as energy, health, financial services and telecommunications stay current on threats, opportunities and trends for informed decision-making and business strategy modernization," said John Thomas, SAIC senior vice president and business unit general manager.