Surveillance functions are classical tasks in the Defense field. During peace time, the main mission that intelligence services have to carry out can be summed up in two basic objectives:

 

		The detection and evaluation of signs that allow undeclared hostile actions to be foreseen.
		The accumulation of information on possible opponents, which can be useful in case of a conflict.

In times of crises or conflicts, the situation changes. The reaction time becomes vital so that the processes involved in obtaining intelligence information should be prepared to adapt themselves to varying situations.

In the same regard, to anticipate the actions of criminal organizations or to forecast emergencies, the elaboration of relevant information from all the available data, internal or external, is needed. To achive this, work on multiple, dispersed and heterogeneous information sources is required, and the extracted information has to be structured and filtered so that decisions can be made.

Moreover, the solutions have to facilitate information querying by human experts, sometimes in real time, and automatic report generation.

Denodo provides an integration technology that allows information capture independently of the source type where it originated from(be it a database, a log file of a tracking system or a message in a predefined format) and manages to structure it in a homogeneous format that can be processed, for example, to send alerts or to generate reports.