16-11-2013, 09:43 PM
Peter,
The most commonly used software over here is I2 Analyst's Notebook (now owned by IBM). It usually interfaces with the user's system and takes a data feed but you can dump data in from Excel (anyone have comprehensive assassination data in structured Excel format?)and you can also manually add/amend entities. It's not cheap; a few thousand £s for one standalone licence I believe. Another commonly used system is Detica's Netreveal product which will also be expensive I think. I'm unsure if there any freebies out there but I doubt it; if there are they are likely to be fairly basic. A much cheaper option might be MS Visio but that would be quite labour intensive as you would need to manually add and link together every individual entity.
Al
The most commonly used software over here is I2 Analyst's Notebook (now owned by IBM). It usually interfaces with the user's system and takes a data feed but you can dump data in from Excel (anyone have comprehensive assassination data in structured Excel format?)and you can also manually add/amend entities. It's not cheap; a few thousand £s for one standalone licence I believe. Another commonly used system is Detica's Netreveal product which will also be expensive I think. I'm unsure if there any freebies out there but I doubt it; if there are they are likely to be fairly basic. A much cheaper option might be MS Visio but that would be quite labour intensive as you would need to manually add and link together every individual entity.
Al