Our Approach
1. TECHNOLOGY ASSESSMENT
Praescient helps clients in assessing their evolving data challenges and identifying new analytic tools and platforms available to advance their missions. Praescient is involved at phase zero, having evaluated over 200 technologies to help clients understand their options – everything from niche AI-driven tools that solve very specific workflow challenges to scalable, enterprise intelligence platforms. Through utilizing technology, Praescient has helped clients across industries identify the gaps in data and provide solutions for moving forward.
2. INTEGRATION and TRAINING
Praescient is a data analytics firm comprised of domain experts & savvy technologists dedicated to intelligence, investigations, and counter-fraud dealing with big, messy data sets. Praescient’s team of analysts and engineers work side-by-side with clients to ensure that they can maximize their new analytic tools. Praescient brings excellent capabilities, technologies, and proprietary enablers that cohesively deliver data analytics solutions. Through this integration, Praescient offers rapidly deployable training programs that are tailored to clients’ missions.
3. EMBEDDED ANALYSIS
Praescient’s embedded analysts introduce new workflows and methodologies for greater accessibility and efficiency for clients while producing analysis in support of their missions. We also continue to monitor and assess clients’ evolving analytic requirements, identifying opportunities for innovation. Praescient is the glue between innovation and clients as a comprehensive solutions provider. Through Praescient’s unique program management and technical implementation knowledge of how to deliver new technology effectively within current and future systems, Praescient has had the great honor to provide support to over 40 organizations across 6 continents.
4. PRODUCT CUSTOMIZATION
Praescient’s engineers develop mission-specific plug-ins, helpers, and other custom applications to further enhance the capability clients can achieve with their advanced analytic tools and platforms. Praescient is able to architect, partner with, and staff appropriately to deliver innovative solutions at scale to an exciting array of mission-critical clients. By being in the room helping to make the first decision, means Praescient is there throughout implementation to the 2nd, 3rd, 4th decision cycle of additional customization & innovation. Praescient brings initial solutions and persevere with our clients to help them evolve as our threats evolve.
Our Business Areas
Legal Analytics
iDiscovery Praescient successfully leveraged its expertise in data analytics in support of government and commercial clients to provide intelligent discovery solutions against a range of complex big data legal challenges. Utilizing Praescient’s tools and techniques to interrogate large volumes of structured, unstructured, and anonymized data; Praescient’s analysts identify correlations, patterns, and trends – uncovering non-obvious connections and granting insight that would have otherwise remained hidden. Praescient delivers this actionable intelligence in a highly engaging format through the use of intuitive graphics and comprehensive reports.
Impact Snapshot: Corporate Leak Analysis
Praescient analysts use an advanced analytical platform and open source social media analysis to discover the source of a corporate leak of a sensitive internal report. An Analysis as a Service (A3S) team member ingested massive amounts of phone logs and email data and then applied intelligent analytics software tools to assist in their search.
Learn more about how Praescient Analytics can assist your need for legal analysis HERE.
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Commercial
Praescient Analytics provides advanced analysis, training, and engineering services to commercial clients across legal, financial, energy, healthcare, and retail industries. Our team’s proven ability to combine our subject matter expertise with the use of cutting-edge technologies helps clients save money, reduce risk, and improve business performance.
Impact Snapshot: Anti-money laundering
Praescient analysts provided a hedge fund with investigative support on an $1B anti-money laundering case. Hundreds of thousands of transactions were analyzed and coupled with open source data to identify potential leads for the firm as they participated in legal proceedings to recover defaulted funds. Learn more about Praescient’s work for this client in the Asset Recovery Case Study
Impact Snapshot: Combating Financial Fraud
Praescient provided analytic services in support of a multi-billion dollar fraud investigation. Analysts coupled the client’s big data with business intelligence resources and concepts in order to inform the client’s strategic approach to this challenge. Analysts exposed incidents of fraud, conflicts of interest, adverse social networks, and general atmospherics.
Download the full Anti-corruption Case Study to find out about how Praescient fights fraud
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Global Defense
The analysts and engineers of Praescient’s Global Defense Team share a deep expertise in our clients’ missions and organizations, thanks to years of experience across the armed services and in the national security community. In the past two years, our team has embedded in direct support of units operating in Afghanistan, as well as with special operations forces elsewhere around the world. Praescient personnel have also provided sustained support to ongoing strategic planning exercises at major U.S. combatant commands in the United States.
Impact Snapshot: Embedded Support to Warfighters
Praescient personnel in southern Afghanistan modified an advanced analytic platform to reflect military units’ expanding area of operations, while simultaneously integrating new forms of intelligence into the platform, resulting in more rapidly actionable analytic solutions.
Read about Praescient’s contributions to the fight against green-on-blue attacks in this Defense Case Study
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Law Enforcement
Praescient’s Law Enforcement team is comprised of veterans from the U.S. federal and local law enforcement communities, all of whom are passionate about utilizing the most advanced analytic technologies and methodologies to enhance and support traditional investigative practices. Praescient personnel have supported the disruption of narcotics trafficking and bulk-cash smuggling networks, assisted in high-profile manhunts, and enabled the identification of new leads in long-cold cases.
Impact Snapshot: State-wide Manhunt
Praescient analysts supported a joint law enforcement taskforce engaged in a manhunt against a dangerous criminal. Praescient’s information management and analysis workflows would become integral to the execution of this operation. Download the full Law Enforcement Case Study to learn more
Impact Snapshot: Sustained Training Surges
Praescient analysts have deployed across the United States and all over the world to train law enforcement personnel on advanced analytic platforms. Download the Training Case Study and learn about one example of our capabilities with an international law enforcement client
Impact Snapshot: Anti-human Trafficking
Praescient maintains strong partnership with The McCain Institute and Arizona State University, together conducting annual studies examining the link between human trafficking and prostitution leading up to the NFL’s Super Bowl.
Read about Praescient’s analytical support to a joint research effort in the Anti-human Trafficking Case Study
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Intelligence
Praescient’s teams across the U.S. Intelligence Community understand the importance of advanced technologies in managing the volume and variety of data available to analysts today. Praescient consultants work with intelligence community clients to implement and leverage powerful analytic platforms, by developing new analytic workflows and fusing new forms of data with existing streams.
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Cyber Analytics
Praescient’s Cyber Analytics team is comprised of technical experts and analysts with recent operational experience in the most elite cyber security units of the U.S. government. They are prepared to apply the latest tools and methodologies to assess clients’ vulnerabilities and defend against the most advanced threats.
Impact Snapshot: Enhancing Existing Cyber Capabilities
Working with an international client, Praescient’s analysts evaluated an existing cyber infrastructure and recommended a plan of action to address deficiencies and strengthen network security. The team deployed to the client country and set up the needed hardware and software requirements. Find out more about our impact in the Cyber Analytics Case Study
Impact Snapshot: Establishing Active Defenses
Praescient’s Cyber Analytics personnel support the network security team at one of the United States’ largest banks in developing new analytic workflows and methodologies that provide enhanced, active cyber defenses to supplement existing data feeds on potential threats.
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Open Source Analysis
Praescient’s analysts and engineers are passionate about solving our clients’ toughest analytic challenges. We have generated successes for organizations engaged in a wide range of critical missions.
Impact Snapshot: Crisis Response Support
Praescient analysts have surged to support clients in a series of large-scale crisis response operations, including relief operations following Hurricane Sandy and tornadoes in Oklahomas.
Read about Praescient’s support to these efforts in the Disaster Relief Case Study
Impact Snapshot: Strategic Insights
Praescient analysts supported an international foundation in their analysis of data on terrorism and food security in Africa, resulting in a presentation delivered at the 38th G8 Summit.
Find out more about Praescient’s work and solutions tracking criminal elements in the Illicit Networks Case Study Read an overview of Praescient’s Research Organization Partners
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