The Visualizer is a graphical user interface that analysts and
investigators use to analyze the results of alerts, relationships, and entity
resolutions.
The Visualizer is hosted by an embedded version of IBM WebSphere Application
Server. You configure the Visualizer through the Configuration Console and
through the Visualizer Preferences selection on the File menu.
Visualizer users can accomplish a variety of analysis tasks:
- Analyze and disposition alerts
- Alerts generated by IBM Relationship Resolution represent relationships
or entity resolutions of interest to an organization. Typically, analysts
review alerts and decide what action to take, if any, based on the alert information.
There are three types of alerts: role alerts, attribute alerts, and event
alerts.
- The Visualizer displays the alerts, providing analysts with both textual
and graphical views of the alerts and the entities involved in the alerts.
Analysts can drill down into the details, to decide what action to take next,
and then set the status of the alert appropriately.
- Create and manage attribute alert generators
- Using the Visualizer, analysts can create and manage persistent searches
through the Attribute Alert Generator feature, and manage how they view and
receive alerts. Analysts can create Attribute Alert Generators based on attribute
data to locate identities that resolved to entities based on that attribute
data. Or analysts can create an Attribute Alert Generator to persistently
search the entity database looking for a particular entity.
- Find entities
- Visualizer users can also find entities for further analysis using a variety
of methods:
- By attributes
- By data source account
- By entity ID
- By resolution (how closely the criteria entered matches identities and
entities in the entity database, based on minimum resolution score thresholds)
- Add entities and disclosed relationships
- Analysts can use the Visualizer to add records for entity resolution and
relationship detection. Analysts can add a single identity or load a UMF file
containing a few thousand identity records. Just as when identity
records are added through acquisition programs, records added through the
Visualizer are processed by a pipeline for entity resolution and relationship
detection. The results of processing are written to the entity database, and
any alerts are published to the Visualizer.
- Analysts can also add links to disclose relationships between entities
(by identity). Examples of disclosures might include emergency contacts and
references listed on an employment application.
- Generate and print reports
- The Visualizer also contains several reports that analysts can view and
print to help them manage and track their Visualizer work.