February 19, 2006 - brakis-altwan Time Machine
The utility of business intelligence (BI) is spreading across all fields; BI software is being deployed for a variety of purposes ranging from preventing theft to deterring crime. The Richmond Police Department (RPD) in Virginia is implementing data mining, predictive analysis, and BI tools from enterprise business intelligence software solutions providers SPSS and Information Builders to prevent future crime from happening. The application, which combines SPSS' predictive analysis and Information Builders' enterprise BI capabilities along with an analytic framework from RTI International, an independent scientific research and technology development corporation, will aid the RPD in deploying police power to the right places at the right time and thus preventing crime. The software and implementation make sense since criminal activity follows predictable patterns, and the police are natural data miners who excel at wading through data to derive solutions to crimes, says Colleen McCue, senior research scientist at RTI International. Eweek reports:
"By better characterizing crime trends and patterns to predict where crime was likely to occur, the police department could anticipate criminal activity and proactively place their resources," McCue added.
Source: Business Intelligence
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