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Contents
Who should read this white paper? ........................................................................................... 4
What is i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.0.55? ...................................................................................... 4
What is power2? ........................................................................................................................ 4
Benefits ......................................................................................................................................
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What are the new features and enhancements?....................................................................... 6
Search Bar ............................................................................................................................. 6
Minimize Crossed Links Layout ............................................................................................. 7
Organization Layout ............................................................................................................... 8
Highlight chart items .............................................................................................................. 9
Align or Space...................................................................................................................... 10
Semantic types..................................................................................................................... 11
Data records......................................................................................................................... 13
Powerful entity matching ...................................................................................................... 14
Page Setup .......................................................................................................................... 16
Link Bar ................................................................................................................................ 17
Improved example report specifications .............................................................................. 18
New and updated icons ....................................................................................................... 19
How do I upgrade to i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.0.55? ............................................................... 20
Is i2 ChartReader included? .................................................................................................... 20
Contact information.................................................................................................................. 21
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Who should read this white paper?

This white paper is intended for i2 Analyst's Notebook users familiar with version 6 who wish
to learn about the new features available in version 6.0.55. Managers will also benefit from
knowing about these features so that they can assign tasks more effectively to analysts.

What is i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.0.55?

i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.0.55 is a maintenance release of i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.0 that
incorporates i2’s power2 technology including exciting new features and enhancements that
benefit all users.

i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.0.55 also addresses many of the bugs reported since i2 Analyst’s
Notebook 6 was initially released.

What is power2?
i2’s power2 technology contributes to a safer and more secure world by empowering analysts
and investigators. i2’s innovative knowledge-based analysis, visualization and intelligent data
access tools can help to develop actionable intelligence for use in the detection and
prevention of unlawful activity.

power2 enables you to:

• spend less time finding data and more time analyzing results
• perform more intelligent searching, matching and analysis
• acquire data more conveniently and from additional sources
• extract maximum value from existing data

i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.0.55 plays a central role in bringing the power2 benefits to all
analysts and investigators. However, the full benefits of power2 are attained when using i2
Analyst’s Notebook in conjunction with i2’s comprehensive suite of power2 enabled and
compatible products such as i2 iBase and i2 iXa Framework, iBridge, i2 TextChart and i2
Chart Explorer.
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Benefits
The features provided and the benefits gained from i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.0.55 mean that
this version is much more than a typical maintenance version.
• Powerful analysis
Apply powerful analysis with i2 Analyst’s Notebook’s increased intelligence and its
sophisticated understanding of your data.
Identify and visualize hard to find matching or duplicate data using the advanced
matching capabilities. Choose how you would like to to deal with duplicate data to ensure
that all associations, transactions and relationships are clear and recognizable.
Control your whole investigative story by using data records to store background
information from your data sources. Data records enable you to perform more informed
and effective analysis.
• Become more productive
Save time searching your investigations for that critical piece of information by using the
new simple-to-use search tool. Quickly search for any information stored within your
chart.
Use the helpful highlight capability to bring to attention the results of your analysis no
matter where the items lie on your chart.
Communicate your investigations more effectively by taking advantage of the new
visualization features – helping you to better align your charts and ensure that they are
automatically arranged in the style that provides the highest analytical value.

i2 Analyst’s Notebook’s combination of powerful and intuitive new features provide you, your
team and your investigation with countless benefits.

Make Smarter Decisions - More Easily and More Quickly

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What are the new features and enhancements?

Search Bar

The Search Bar allows you to search through all of the information in your chart in one simple
operation. It gives you easy access to your data whenever you need it.

Type in the word, phrase,

number or date you are
looking for and the Search
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items in the chart that
match your request.

The Search Bar includes

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each resulting item so that
you can always locate
your results no matter
how large your chart is.
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You can use the Minimize Crossed Links layout to automatically reduce the number of links
that cross.

Complex charts can conceal key associations beneath a confusion of crisscrossing links. The
Minimize Crossed Links layout allows vital connections to be instantly revealed.

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Organization Layout

The Organization Layout allows you to discover association hierarchies within your
investigation. You can select which of your chart items you would like to see at the head of
your hierarchy, or allow the head item to be chosen automatically based on the link directions.
Additionally, the Organization Layout will rearrange your chart with the minimum number of
crossing links.

The Organization Layout helps you to reveal chains of command and helps you see the flow
of information or commodities. The i2 Analyst’s Notebook layouts ensure that you have the
best tools in order that you can concentrate your investigative resources in the most effective
way.
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Align or Space

It is important to construct and present your charts as clearly as possible so that trends and
associations are easy to see. The Align or Space toolbar provides you with additional tools to
ensure that your chart items are perfectly aligned and uniformly spaced where necessary.
This makes certain that your charts are crystal clear and professional in appearance which, in
turn, helps you to view and interpret them more effectively.

The Align or Space toolbar saves you valuable time when producing your charts and allows
you to more effectively present and communicate your investigations.

Here is a theme line with a set of event frames viewed prior to using the Align Horizontally
command:

After using the Align Horizontally command the chart is instantly clearer and tidier with theme
lines and their event frames in straight horizontal lines.
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Semantic types

Have you ever wanted to analyze or search only the people that are portrayed in your chart
and not include the vehicles and locations associated with them? The new semantic type
properties categorize the real world objects from your investigation allowing you to perform
more ordered and targeted analysis.

All entities, links and attributes now have a semantic type property, where applicable, helping
both you and the application to make more sense of your data. For example, Phones, Cell
Phones, Pagers, Fax Machines and Telephone Boxes are actually just types of telephone that
have been specialized for particular tasks and represented in i2 Analyst’s Notebook with
distinct icons. These entities all have a semantic type derived from Phone. When searching
for a telephone number on your chart you can easily broaden your searches to cover all types
of telephones by selecting a semantic type of Phone.
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Semantic types are automatically assigned from the supplied chart templates but you can, of
course, override the automatically assigned values and specify your own.

For example, you may choose to use a telephone number as the label of a
house entity. By assigning a semantic type of Phone the analysis tools can
treat this entity as a telephone rather than as a house.

Semantic types give you the flexibility to represent the key people and objects in your
investigation in the clearest possible manner while retaining the power to intelligently analyze
the information.
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Data records

When adding chart items from different electronic data sources there is typically much more
valuable information available than just the label or name of the chart items. Sometimes you
might choose to include that information in the description or as an attribute, but in many
cases the additional information is only stored in the data source. Data records provide a
convenient mechanism for storing and displaying additional properties from the data source
with each chart item.

Data records are created and populated

automatically by the electronic data sources
supplying the information. For example, i2 iBase can
be configured to automatically populate data records
when building up your charts.

Data records are stored within the chart and can by

viewed without requiring a connection to the original
data source. For example, you can view the
additional address details stored within your chart for
a person that has been created from an i2 iBase
database.

If necessary, you can easily remove the data records

from your charts before you distribute them.

As well as being visible alongside the other chart item properties, data records are also used
by the Search Bar and Find Matching Entities to provide a better set of results.
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Powerful entity matching

Identifying the critical and decisive information within an increasingly vast amount of data is
one of the challenges facing analysts today. The information available often originates from
disparate data sources of varying qualities including voice recordings, hand written
statements, text files, Excel spreadsheets, internal and external databases, and online data
sources. Most of this data has been entered or modified by different people at some time in its
life.

All analysts will appreciate the types of inconsistencies in data quality from different data
sources; different recordings of the same information, accidental spelling mistakes, different
formats of the same information etc. One major outcome of these inconsistencies is that the
same piece of information can be represented by different entities on a chart. This can mean
that key associations are overlooked and vital leads unnoticed.

i2 Analyst’s Notebook includes a powerful tool called Find Matching Entities which identifies
similar entities on a chart based on their labels. This tool can be used to overcome some of
the problems associated with poor data quality and the inconsistencies experienced when
incorporating data from disparate data sources.

Find Matching Entities has been enhanced in i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.0.55 with powerful new
smart matching capabilities that better identify matching items within your charts. The existing
capabilities of Find Matching Entities are based solely around the matching of labels and
identities. The new smart matching capabilities use the labels, semantic types, attributes and
data records to identify more accurate matches. Quite simply, the more information that is
available, the better the matches identified.

The new Find Matching Entities includes a facility allowing you to look for duplicates by
comparing a selection against the entities in the rest of the chart. This facility is of particular
use after importing entities from a database or text file allowing you to see if the information
imported already exists on the chart.

You can control the matching threshold allowing Find Matching Entities to identify both
strongly and weakly matched items. The improved user interface shows you the items that
have been identified as matches giving you the ability to review them and choose to merge,
link, or leave them on the chart. To help you with your reviewing, Find Matching Entities
indicates the strength of each match and lets you view the individual item properties. In
addition you can interact with your chart to see the detailed context for the matching items,
ensuring that you can quickly and easily review all the matches.
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The improved Find Matching Entities ensures that you have all the information and tools
required to remove duplicates from your chart and ensure that significant associations are not
missed or neglected.
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Page Setup

Being able to print your charts is a necessity and should be as straightforward a task as
possible. The Page Setup dialog is simpler to use with graphical representations to help you
quickly understand the available page setup and printing options.

When selecting your page setup options the chart immediately previews how the resulting
pages will be used giving you the confidence to print successfully. This saves you time and
effort when preparing your chart for printing.
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Link Bar

Adding links to your charts using the Link Bar has been made even more intuitive. A selection
dialog from the Link Bar allows you to preview and choose the wiring height for your theme
line segments.

The Link Bar saves you time by allowing you to quickly draw links on your chart. The new
dialog helps to remove the trial and error from drawing diverting theme lines and allows you to
easily choose the most appropriate representation for your sequence of events charts.

If you don’t have the Link Bar displayed, you can display it by selecting the View menu,
choosing Toolbars and selecting Link Bar.
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Improved example report specifications

An improved selection of example reports is available to help you export chart information.
The example reports provide a great way of getting the information visualized in your charts
into other applications for further analysis or for reporting purposes.

Save time when reporting by either running the reports provided or by using them as the basis
for creating custom reports.
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territories.

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The flag icon representing Afghanistan has been updated since the previous maintenance
release.

Military symbols, previously only available in the US version, are now available in all language
versions.

How do I upgrade to i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.0.55?

i2 Analyst's Notebook 6.0.55 replaces your previous i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.0 installation.
The installer helps you uninstall your previous version of i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.0 before
installing the latest version.

Is i2 ChartReader included?
The latest version of i2 ChartReader is included on the i2 Analyst’s Notebook 6.0.55 CD. i2
ChartReader is a freely distributable application that lets users view and print i2 Analyst’s
Notebook charts.
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