Impact of advanced collaborative architectures on intelligence analysis

Emerging technologies and evolving business needs are continually changing the way people work together. People are no longer working in one location where they can easily meet to share information. Instead they are spread out across enterprises and across the world. The intelligence community in particular understands the need for analysts to work together from remote locations, in disparate organizations, to leverage experience and share information to solve the complex problems they are facing today. There is a need for a highly secure, extremely robust collaborative solution that enables self-organizing teams to participate in both ad hoc and structured collaborations. Intelligence analysts need an environment that promotes collaborative problem solving where they not only share ideas and information, but also standard applications, tools, and processes.