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Agent Logic Gives End User Data View


Situational awareness is easier on developers when workers build their own data streams

By Alex Handy
December 1, 2007 — 
The war on terror has made for some impossibly large data streams. So says Agent Logic, a company that built itself around offering software tools to outfits such as the CIA and the Department of Homeland Security, to help give analysts a full view of large amounts of data.

In early November, the company updated RulePoint 2.5, its complex event processing system, to make it even easier for developers to divest themselves of the need to customize data stream analysis for end users. But despite its beginnings in the national security world, RulePoint has matured into a data-mining tool that could be used by any business seeking to enhance the situational awareness of its employees.

Chris Bradley, executive vice president of marketing and commercial sales for Agent Logic, explained that RulePoint was honed through years of use in the intelligence and defense departments. “[Call it] operational intelligence or situational awareness; those encompass what we deliver in RulePoint. The key differentiator for us is we don't deliver that for programmers; we deliver it for end users,” said Bradley.

As a server-side product, RulePoint 2.5 can sift through incoming data streams from all manner of sources, be they databases, RSS feeds or the output of large-scale SOA applications. RulePoint can aggregate the information from these various sources and users can customize queries; the company claims the point-and-click interface is especially useful for new users. The results of those queries can then be viewed, in real time, via a Web browser or thin client.

Improved Ease of Use
Bradley added that RulePoint 2.5 offers improved templates and wizards for data sifting, both of which can contribute to an easier mode of configuration for developers and IT administrators. Nontechnical end users “can point and click their way through data sources,” said Bradley. “They can construct rules and deploy those rules. Based on the data feeds coming in in real time, it can send an alert.”

For version 2.5, Agent Logic has improved the overall performance of the RulePoint server. Also added to this version is the ability to replay data streams after the fact, which helps in forensic research.

Agent Logic prices RulePoint 2.5 at US$150,000 and up.


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