One thing is certain, technology continues to improve and new tools are being produced which will assist analysts and investigators in their daily lives. Keep an eye on iXa® and iXv® by i2 Inc. (ChoicePoint). In addition, do not discount the tools available for the small to medium sized agencies or projects that are looking to cross connect between multiple sources of information. iBridge® is still very much the product of choice in these situations!

Developing connectivity solutions is one of our "strong suits" in the custom development arena. We demonstrated this fully during our presentation on the High Risk Missing Persons Project - now dubbed Project KARE - at the conference. If you need to extract, adapt or migrate data from multiple data pools into a single source, or disseminate to a large audience, enterprise solutions - albeit costly - are available. The best alternative is iBridge® and custom designed connectivity and migration "plug ins".