Link Analysis Software Demo
SentVi Investigative Analytics
Link Analysis Software Demonstration
Watch how investigators can visualize relationships, explore connected records, and uncover investigative leads using SentVi.
What You’ll Learn in This Video
Discover how visual link analysis helps investigators interpret complex data, identify relationships, and organize investigative findings.
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Video Transcript
# SentVi: Investigative Link Analysis Software
SentVi is an investigative tool that discovers connections, relationships, and patterns by visualizing data and linking people, places, things, and events.
A broad spectrum of businesses and industries use SentVi, from law enforcement investigations to retail fraud, contact tracing, insurance claims, risk analysis, and analyzing social connections.
SentVi helps convert large, unwieldy datasets into easy-to-understand graphical representations that allow users to highlight areas of interest in moments.
Let’s look at a few examples of how SentVi provides the answers investigators need.
## 1. Retail Fraud Investigation
We’ll start with a large department store chain that suspects fraud but needs proof and specific examples before taking action.
We begin with a collection of transactions from different retail locations. SentVi can handle extremely large datasets. Hundreds of thousands of entries are not a problem, and the software can transform them into a link chart almost instantly.
The resulting link chart displays connections among people, stores, and transaction types.
By examining these relationships, investigators can identify two individuals connected through a small subset of stores, revealing patterns that may warrant further investigation.
## 2. Call Detail Record Analysis
SentVi can also uncover meaningful connections by analyzing telephone call records.
We begin with more than 4,000 rows of telephone numbers and call dates, along with a directory identifying the owners of each number.
This information is imported into SentVi to generate a visual network showing numerous smaller groups of phones communicating with one another.
In a police investigation, analysts can isolate and zoom in on the most complex networks.
Investigators can then import another dataset containing targeted telephone numbers and highlight those numbers wherever they appear within the network.
Using SentVi’s **Shortest Path** tool, investigators can identify intermediaries connecting individuals and focus their investigations on potentially important relationships.
## 3. Cyber Threat Investigation
SentVi can also be used to investigate cybersecurity threats.
In this example, the dataset includes:
– IP addresses
– Geographic location data
– Malware types
– Latitude and longitude coordinates
– Infection dates
SentVi visualizes how servers are connected, allowing investigators to identify relationships and potential patterns of malicious activity.
Investigators can isolate a specific virus and, using Google Earth, visualize how the malware spread geographically over time.
This provides a clearer understanding of the scope and progression of a cyber threat.
## 4. Terrorism Network Analysis
Malware is not the only threat that SentVi can help investigators track.
SentVi has also been used to research terrorist networks worldwide.
In this example, the software visualizes three terrorist cells and their associated relationships.
Using the Navigator feature, investigators can zoom into individual networks, examine connections among members, and visualize the organizational structure of each cell.
This approach helps analysts understand complex relationships and identify individuals who may play important roles within a network.
## 5. Crime Scene and Arson Investigation
Complex evidence gathered from multiple crime scenes and data sources can be analyzed using SentVi’s **MultiVisualizer** feature.
In this example, investigators have information related to three separate arson incidents.
By combining crime scene information with telephone numbers, call records, and cellular tower location data, investigators can identify potential connections among the incidents.
MultiVisualizer analyzes these datasets to generate a list of potential suspects whose telephone activity places them near all three arson locations.
This allows investigators to narrow their focus and identify individuals who may warrant additional investigation.
## 6. Social Network and Organizational Analysis
Social networks, both digital and in-person, can be analyzed to identify leaders, influencers, and communication pathways.
In this example, SentVi analyzes information from a megachurch with approximately 10,000 members.
The dataset includes spreadsheets containing information about:
– Congregants and family members
– Places of employment
– Participation in sponsored classes
– Involvement in church activities
– Relationships among individuals and groups
SentVi transforms this information into a visual network.
By zooming into the network, analysts can identify individuals who connect different groups, families, and activities.
These individuals may be strong candidates for leadership positions because of their relationships across the organization.
The software also allows users to explore how any two individuals are connected within the church.
## Discover the Power of SentVi
SentVi helps investigators and analysts uncover the connections, relationships, and patterns hidden within complex datasets.
Whether you’re investigating fraud, analyzing telephone records, tracking cyber threats, examining criminal networks, or understanding organizational relationships, SentVi transforms complex information into actionable visual intelligence.
**Find the connections. Reveal the patterns. Discover the answers that matter.**
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Frequently Asked Questions
What is investigative link analysis?
Investigative link analysis is a technique used by law enforcement, intelligence analysts, fraud investigators, and legal professionals to identify, visualize, and analyze relationships between people, organizations, financial transactions, phone records, locations, and other data.
By transforming complex datasets into interactive visual diagrams, investigative link analysis helps uncover hidden connections, identify suspicious patterns, and reveal relationships that may not be obvious when reviewing spreadsheets or traditional reports.
SentVi investigative link analysis software enables investigators to explore interconnected data, visualize relationships, and identify potential investigative leads. Whether analyzing financial fraud, money laundering, call detail records (CDRs), or criminal networks, link analysis helps investigators understand how individuals, events, and activities may be connected.
Investigative link analysis can help professionals:
Identify hidden relationships between individuals, businesses, accounts, and events.
Visualize complex networks to better understand connections and patterns.
Analyze financial transactions to investigate potential fraud and money laundering.
Examine call detail records to identify communication patterns and associations.
Organize investigative findings into clear visual representations that support further analysis.
With SentVi, investigators can turn complex information into actionable investigative insights, helping them work more efficiently and make better-informed decisions.
See investigative link analysis in action: Explore SentVi’s capabilities and discover how visual analytics can support your next investigation.
How can link analysis help fraud investigators?
Link analysis helps fraud investigators uncover hidden relationships, identify suspicious activity, and detect patterns that may indicate financial fraud, money laundering, or organized fraud schemes. By visually connecting people, businesses, bank accounts, financial transactions, phone numbers, and other data, investigators can identify relationships that might otherwise remain hidden in spreadsheets or traditional reports.
SentVi investigative link analysis software helps fraud investigators transform complex datasets into interactive visual networks, making it easier to trace financial activity, explore connections, and identify potential fraud.
Link analysis can help fraud investigators:
Detect Fraud Networks: Identify connections between individuals, businesses, accounts, and transactions that may indicate coordinated fraudulent activity.
Trace Financial Transactions: Follow the movement of funds between accounts to investigate potential money laundering, wire fraud, ACH fraud, and other financial crimes.
Identify Hidden Relationships: Discover shared addresses, phone numbers, accounts, and other connections between seemingly unrelated entities.
Uncover Suspicious Patterns: Recognize unusual transaction activity, repeated interactions, and interconnected accounts that may warrant further investigation.
Investigate Complex Fraud Schemes: Analyze relationships associated with identity theft, insurance fraud, check fraud, and organized financial crime.
Support Investigative Reporting: Present complex relationships through visual diagrams that help communicate findings to investigative teams, attorneys, and other stakeholders.
With SentVi, fraud investigators can turn disconnected information into meaningful investigative intelligence, helping them identify potential leads, prioritize investigative efforts, and better understand complex financial relationships.
See SentVi in Action: Discover how SentVi’s link analysis and investigative visualization capabilities can help uncover connections and support more effective fraud investigations.
What types of data can investigators visualize?
Investigators can visualize a wide range of data to uncover hidden relationships, identify suspicious patterns, and better understand complex investigations. SentVi investigative link analysis software helps transform structured investigative data into interactive visual diagrams, allowing investigators to explore connections between people, organizations, financial transactions, locations, and events.
By bringing multiple data sources together, investigators can identify relationships that might otherwise be difficult to detect using spreadsheets, databases, or traditional reports.
Common types of investigative data that can be visualized include:
People and Organizations: Identify relationships between suspects, associates, businesses, employees, and other entities involved in an investigation.
Financial Transactions: Visualize bank transfers, ACH payments, wire transfers, checks, and other financial activity to investigate fraud and potential money laundering.
Call Detail Records (CDRs): Analyze phone numbers, call histories, communication frequency, and connections between individuals.
Locations and Geospatial Data: Examine addresses, GPS coordinates, cell tower information, and location-based relationships to identify geographic patterns.
Social Media and OSINT Data: Explore relationships identified through publicly available information, online profiles, websites, and other open-source intelligence.
Criminal and Investigative Records: Connect individuals, incidents, case records, known associates, and other investigative information to identify potential networks.
Dates, Times, and Events: Visualize timelines, sequences of activities, and connections between events to better understand when and how incidents occurred.
Digital and Electronic Evidence: Analyze relationships involving email addresses, IP addresses, devices, online accounts, and other digital identifiers.
SentVi helps investigators turn complex data into meaningful visual intelligence, making it easier to recognize patterns, discover potential leads, and communicate findings.
Whether investigating financial fraud, organized crime, money laundering, or complex civil litigation, visual link analysis provides a clearer understanding of how people, transactions, and events may be connected.
See SentVi in Action: Discover how SentVi’s investigative visualization capabilities can help your team analyze complex data, uncover hidden connections, and streamline investigations.
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